The Patriot Act, which Republicans thought was a super cool idea, made it far easier to seize phones and electronic communications. The FBI seized the phone of former President Donald Trump's election attorney John Eastman, and Eastman and Fox News's Tucker Carlson are appalled. What's really surprising is that the author of the 'coup memos' is shocked that the feds pulled him aside while leaving a restaurant with his wife and a friend to confiscate his phone. Tucker Carlson interviewed John Eastman on Monday night, and the Fox News host urged people who didn't vote for Joe Biden to erase their text messages and emails "every single day." Welllll, a lot of the alleged humans that took part in Trump's attempted coup on Jan.