Eastman emails reveal team trump knew they lied about Georgia fraud.

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2020 ELECTIONS
Federal judge finds Trump lied in court
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor & Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter |
October 19, 2022 03:33 PM
| Updated Oct 19, 2022, 05:36 PM
A court filing suggests new legal jeopardy for former President Donald Trump in his quest to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

When Trump and his attorneys filed a challenge in Georgia in December 2020, the former president "knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public," a federal judge wrote on Wednesday.

The assertions were made by David Carter, a federal judge in California, while ordering conservative attorney John Eastman to release more emails to the Jan. 6 committee.

In a Dec. 4 filing in a Georgia court, lawyers working for Trump claimed Fulton County had tabulated over 10,000 votes from felons, unregistered voters, and dead people, according to Carter. The Georgia case, which was filed by the Trump campaign to decertify the state's results, was tossed out about a month later.

Eastman, in an email dated Dec. 31 with Trump's lawyers, claimed Trump had "since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate." Eastman raised concerns in the email that Trump signing a new verification in the matter "would not be accurate."


"President Trump and his attorneys ultimately filed the complaint with the same inaccurate numbers without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing them," Carter explained. "President Trump, moreover, signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers 'are true and correct' or 'believed to be true and correct' to the best of his knowledge and belief."

"The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States," Carter continued.

Carter's assessment of the Eastman's emails led lawyer Twitter to opine that this is bad news for Trump.


"So, um … that's a crime," tweeted national security lawyer Bradley Moss.


"Odds of Donald Trump ending up in a Fulton County courtroom just went up a little," Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University College of Law tweeted.


Trump has denied wrongdoing, but the Eastman emails appear to suggest Trump was aware legal challenges in that endeavor were premised on false information. ...

"They knew they were lying. We knew they knew they were lying. No wonder Eastman has worked so hard to hide these," former appellate defender Teri Kanefield tweeted.


"Lying to the court is bad. But what brings in the crime-fraud exception is that the goal was to obstruct the counting of the votes. Therefore, it is all part of the larger coup attempt," she added.

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