A federal judge on Wednesday said former President Donald Trump knowingly made false claims of election fraud in court, in a ruling that required former Trump attorney John Eastman to turn over certain communications to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Mr. Eastman, a former law school dean at Chapman University who had advanced fringe legal theories to challenge the certification of the 2020 presidential-election results, filed a lawsuit last year seeking to stop the school from complying with a subpoena to hand over months of his emails and records to the Jan. 6 committee. Mr. Eastman said the communications were protected by attorney-client privilege.
In Wednesday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge David Carter in California said that eight of the more than 500 communications and records he reviewed weren’t protected, because they appeared to be in furtherance of a crime. Four emails showed Mr. Trump and his attorneys took legal action to delay or disrupt Vice President Mike Pence overseeing the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, the judge said. Another four emails showed Mr. Trump and his attorneys knowingly made false claims about voter fraud in lawsuits, according to the ruling.
“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 Carter wrote.
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