Defraud the United States
A federal judge ordered a former Department of Justice official to hand over emails to the House select Jan. 6. committee. In doing so, he wrote that former President Donald Trump knowingly promoted false information about the 2020 election in court and in public.
On Wednesday, Judge David Carter of the Central District of California ordered former Trump DOJ official John Eastman to submit four emails to the committee after he tried to claim the correspondence is covered by executive privilege.
“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,” the judge wrote. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
On Wednesday, Judge David Carter of the Central District of California ordered former Trump DOJ official John Eastman to submit four emails to the committee after he tried to claim the correspondence is covered by executive privilege.
“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,” the judge wrote. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
