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.”

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Really · 80-89, M

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays

Judge Carter served in the military with valor

- And that's what leads him to find "that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” ?? I have no personal stake in the matter but that's a pretty tenuous connection. Courage in battle could easily be a symptom of poor judgement, with its outcome based on pure luck.

'Just sayin'', as they say :).

Ryderbike

@Really cult fiction is fascinating to watch.

Referred to as batshit crazy

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Really I don't believe he was arguing that was what his law qualifications were based on; rather, commenting on how the most rabid Trumpist nationalists immediately start calling anyone they disagree with commies and clowns even when they have lived up to their oaths to the Constitution with valor repeatedly.

The judge's decision, BTW, was not based solely on the tapes/transcripts in question but the fact that other sworn depositions by multiple people who were in meetings and conversation with the President in which it was repeatedly made clear to him that there was no evidence to support his claims of election fraud, and that he understood so. That he would continue to pretend otherwise in these subsequent planning discussions with Eastman on strategies to have himself declared the winner is the basis of the judge's ruling on excluding these specific four transcripts from attorney-privilege, because that made it an attempt to defraud and therefore an exception to the normal privilege.