Aug 17, 2016 · When CNN’s Brianna Keilar asked Michael Cohen, special counsel at the Trump Organization, about the shake-up, which reportedly sidelined Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman who had been heading ...
Eastman , a visiting professor that the University of Colorado Boulder, was recently relieved "of duties related to outreach and speaking as a representative of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization." Having him perform these duties may be "disruptive and damage the interests of the campus and the Benson Center," according to a statement from the college.
CNN political pundit Sophia A. Nelson criticized Smerconish for having Eastman on the show at all in a tweet. She called the lawyer "a traitor. A liar. A Trumpthuglican," the latter a portmanteau of the words Trump, thug, and Republican.
Despite some conspiracy theorists sharing the idea that Antifa members posing as Trump supporters were actually the ones invading the Capitol, the FBI said on January 8 that it had no evidence of that. When asked for members of Antifa that had been arrested in relation to the riots, Eastman appeared to reference one left-wing activist who was arrested in relation to the riot.