BREAKING Donald Trump attorney John Eastman is second co-conspirator to surrender in Georgia

John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who helped develop a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, became the former president’s second co-defendant to turn himself in to Georgia authorities Tuesday morning.

Eastman was booked in the Fulton County Jail before being released by authorities.

Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in an extensive racketeering case of trying to improve the outcome of the 2024 election.

Trump himself said a day earlier that he will present himself in jail on Thursday, a day before the Friday afternoon deadline.

Eastman, a former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump leading up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to block the certification of Biden’s election victory.

The sheriff’s department says most people arrested in Fulton County are being taken to the main jail on Rice Street, northwest of downtown, where conditions are being investigated

He wrote a memo outlining steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to interfere with the electoral vote count while presiding over the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to keep Trump in power.

He was named in a 98-page indictment against Georgia published last week.

The defendants were charged with 41 felony charges in connection with attempts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.

On Monday, court documents revealed the bond agreements made between the defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. One by one, they were posted on the court’s website.

A day later, the suspects began to turn themselves in.

The first was Scott Hall, a bail bondsman in Atlanta. He is being charged in connection with an alleged violation of the voting system in Coffee County, Georgia.

Then came Eastman.

The indictment accuses him and others of pushing a scheme involving “alternative” voters that would confirm Trump won.

Scott Hall with Donald Trump – Hall became the first of Trump’s co-conspirators to surrender to authorities in Atlanta

He will not make a formal plea until he appears in court. Meanwhile, his legal team said the indictment “describes activities that are political, but not criminal.”

Lawyers around the world should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy. This is a legal cluster bomb that leaves unexploded ordinances for lawyers to find their way forever,” his lawyers said.