Former Trump lawyer John Eastman didn’t know his election fraud ‘whistleblower’ was a ghost hunter

John Eastman, Donald Trump’s former attorney who is facing a disbarment hearing over allegations he tried to overturn the 2020 election, on Friday claimed he didn’t know that his “whistleblower” was a ghost hunter.

Eastman, who is facing 11 disciplinary charges from the California State Bar, said during his fourth day of testimony that he didn’t know the so-called “whistleblower” behind his debunked claims of election fraud was a truck driver with a side gig in the paranormal realm.

Jesse Richard Morgan in the aftermath of the 2020 elections alleged in an affidavit that he delivered 24 bins of vote-by-mail ballots from New York to Pennsylvania that aimed to tilt the election in favor of Joe Biden.

Shortly after Morgan’s claim was made public, The York Daily Record, a Pennsylvania newspaper, reported that Morgan was an "amateur ghost hunter" with "a lengthy history of drug abuse, mental health issues and allegations of domestic violence" who with his brothers made a documentary film about their paranormal experiences.

“So that’s how things are going for Eastman, whose disbarment hearing could stretch through August” Jordan Rubin writes for MSNBC’s website, noting that Eastman’s case was scheduled to resume Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s next scheduled opinion day.

Rubin writes that “It should be a busy day, then, for the disgraced lawyer, as he continues the proceeding over whether he can still be a lawyer, while the country may learn from the Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper how much election scheming the likes of Eastman can pull off under legal pretenses.”