'You Should Not Be Allowed to Run the Government You Tried to Overthrow'

"I still consider myself, on a national level, more conservative than liberal," he said in an interview. "But not a fascist." The trial was supposed to start Dec. 12, but an historic series of snowstorms forced the parties into a short-lived Zoom hearing where Miller, Eastman's lawyer, pleaded for a delay because of lagging internet service. The next day, Eastman, Kowalke and their attorneys assembled at the Palmer courthouse. The legal case against Eastman was thought to hinge on testimony from a pair of domestic extremism experts. Kowalke's attorney used them to argue that the Oath Keepers advocate for the…