Norm Eisen: The Architect of Anti-Trump Lawfare Must Be Investigated
Norm Eisen needs to be investigated. For those who don’t know, Eisen has been a public backer of nearly all the lawfare against Donald Trump since the Russia investigation. He’s been long associated with the left-wing group the Brookings Institute. He was appointed as an ambassador to the Czech Republic by Barack Obama, whom he met in college. His fingerprints have been all over the anti-Trump legal campaigns.
After Trump won the 2016 election, Eisen went on a media tour suggesting that Trump shouldn’t be certified as the winner by the Electoral College. He promoted an absurd theory based on the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, arguing that electors should be free to pick someone else.
When the Russia investigation began to pick up steam, Eisen became a vocal advocate for the idea that Trump could commit obstruction of justice by firing his own subordinates—such as the FBI Director—even though this is a constitutional authority of the president. This theory, recently debunked by the presidential immunity ruling, was always a stretch.
Eisen was also one of the impeachment lawyers for the Democrats during the Ukraine impeachment hoax, once again pushing an extreme legal theory—that the president somehow violated the Constitution by asking Ukraine to investigate the obvious corruption involving Hunter Biden and the Bidens. Joe Biden would later pardon his family right before leaving office.
Eisen later became a major advocate for the criminal prosecutions against Trump. Even before Trump was indicted, Eisen was laying out memos detailing novel legal strategies for charging him. He repeatedly lied about Trump “inciting” January 6th, ignoring Trump’s own words where he urged his supporters to protest peacefully and patriotically. Eisen instead concocted absurd legal arguments to try to criminalize Trump’s actions.
He regularly attended the trial in the Hush Money case and, after Trump’s conviction, argued that he should be sent to jail—even though this was a low-level felony/misdemeanor, and first-time offenders almost never get jail time. Clearly, Eisen hoped this would influence the 2024 election. He even would go on podcast and proclaim that based of his “research” a criminal conviction against Trump would swing the 2024 election towards Biden by 14 points.
Perhaps worst of all, Eisen was a major supporter of the effort to remove Trump from the ballot under a radical interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This is a man who claims to care about the Constitution and democracy—yet he backed a legal strategy aimed at removing a presidential candidate from the ballot. That alone proves what a fraud he is.
The point is, Norm Eisen needs to be investigated. His fingerprints have been all over the anti-Trump efforts from the very beginning. Perhaps an investigation would show that he hasn’t done anything technically illegal—and if so, fair enough. But until then, he should be investigated. And the same theories he used to accuse Trump of “election interference” should now be used against Eisen to see whether he meets the standards he himself advocated.
If we care about democracy—as Norm Eisen himself has said we should—then we shouldn’t allow radical left-wing activists to weaponize the law to prevent the American people from electing the president they want. And that’s exactly what Norm Eisen appears to have done. But first, he needs to be investigated. Pam Bondi, Kash Patel—get off the couch and start issuing subpoenas!
