In Wednesday’s ruling, a federal judge in California found that Trump’s false verification of the voting fraud statistics in Georgia was part of an effort to delay the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional certification of Biden’s victory. He made the determination after reviewing hundreds of emails that a Trump attorney [John Eastman] sought to withhold from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And he ordered some of the emails to be released to the committee.
“The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” wrote U.S. District Judge David O. Carter. “The court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
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Now a judge has found Trump knew the statistics were inaccurate by the time he vouched for them again a few weeks later in the Atlanta federal lawsuit. That lawsuit challenged the Fulton County proceedings and sought to decertify the presidential election in Georgia.
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The judge’s ruling comes in a third lawsuit brought by Trump attorney John Eastman, who helped craft dubious legal arguments that Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to accept the Biden electors on Jan. 6. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks subpoenaed emails and other correspondence from Eastman as part of its investigation.
In his lawsuit, Eastman claimed hundreds of documents were protected by attorney-client privilege or were the work product of potential lawsuits. House investigators argued that documents used in the commission of a crime are not privileged and asked the judge to review them to determine whether they should be released.
Earlier this year, Carter ruled that Eastman and Trump had more likely than not committed federal crimes during their campaign to overturn the election.
In his latest ruling, Carter cited the false fraud statistics. He reviewed correspondence in which Eastman relayed “concerns” from Trump’s team “about including specific numbers in the paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, moved, etc.” in the federal lawsuit.
“Although the president signed a verification for (the state court filing) back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate,” Eastman wrote. “For him to sign a new verification with the knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”
Carter noted that Trump signed a verification swearing under oath that the numbers were “true and correct” or “believed to be true and correct” to the best of his knowledge.
Carter ordered the release of four documents based on the false Georgia lawsuit statistics. In his order, the judge indicates the false claims were used “for the purpose of delaying the January 6 vote.”
American voters know this, that Democracy in America itself is under continued threat from Trump and MAGA Republicans but, you know, they have higher priorities than that lolol.
