A federal judge suggested Wednesday that former President Donald Trump committed criminal fraud by knowingly making false voting claims under oath, with the judge ordering a Trump attorney to turn over documents to the January 6 Committee because they were made “in furtherance of a crime.”
U.S. District Judge David Carter ordered Eastman, a right-wing attorney and legal scholar who aided Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, to turn over 33 documents to the House committee by October 28 (out of 561 that Eastman claimed were privileged).
Eight of the emails had to be turned over because of a “crime-fraud” exception, which applies when documents are covered by attorney-client privilege but a “client consults an attorney for advice that will serve [them]
in the commission of a fraud or crime,” or when the documents themselves are “sufficiently related to” and were made “in furtherance of” the crime.
Four emails show that Trump signed a legal document under oath attesting that thousands of votes were fraudulently counted in Fulton County, Georgia, and those numbers were “true and correct,” despite Eastman noting in an email the then-president was “made aware” the allegations and evidence behind them was inaccurate.
The emails over those fraud allegations—which Trump’s legal team also alleged were accurate in a lawsuit objecting to the 2020 election results—are “sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States”...
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