A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of emails from former Donald Trump John Eastman to House investigators, saying the communications were an attempt to “defraud the United States” by subverting the 2020 election.
“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,” Judge David O. Carter wrote in his decision.
“The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States,” he added.
The judge cited one email where Trump’s attorneys state that “merely having this case pending in the Supreme Court, and not ruled on, may be enough to delay consideration of Georgia.”
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“This email, read in context with other documents in this review, make clear that President Trump filed certain lawsuits not to obtain legal relief, but to disrupt or delay the January 6 congressional proceedings through the courts,” Carter said in his ruling.
“The Court finds that these four documents are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of the obstruction crime,” it adds.
The judge went on to cite a December 2020 email where Eastman said that Trump had been made aware that the allegations made in a state court election challenge were inaccurate. Yet Trump and his attorneys went on to file a federal lawsuit referencing the same inaccurate numbers, Carter said.
Read Judge Carter’s ruling here.
