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# How the Claremont Institute, home to Trump lawyer John Eastman, rose and fell
- URL: https://werd.io/how-the-claremont-institute-home-to-trump-lawyer-john-eastman/
- Published: 2022-08-07T13:33:07.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-07T13:33:07.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Lewis said he agreed with Claremont leaders that the country is locked in a cold civil war. “Our country is upside down,” he said. “It’s unrecognizable.” He praised the program and its focus on “the myth of systemic police racism.” \[…\] “They’re trying to train people to take a kind of extreme populist right-wing ideology back with them to Washington.”“ [#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-john-eastman-trump/)\]