Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence
of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday.

U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote in an 18-page opinion that
emails from attorney John Eastman, an architect of Trump’s last-ditch
effort to subvert the 2020 election, needed to be turned over to the
Jan. 6 select committee. Those emails, Carter wrote, “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 emails are among the files that Eastman had been declining to turn
over to the committee, citing attorney-client privilege. While Carter
concluded that some of the materials fell under that privilege, he ruled
that Eastman must disclose four emails to congressional investigators
because they are evidence of a likely crime.

“The Court finds that these four documents are sufficiently related to
and in furtherance of the obstruction crime,” wrote Carter, who is based
in California.

According to Carter, Trump and his attorneys alleged in a Dec. 4 filing
in Georgia state court that Fulton County had improperly counted more
than 10,000 votes of dead people, felons and unregistered voters. They
then moved that proceeding to federal court and discussed whether to use
the same statistics in that filing. In private correspondence, Trump’s lawyers noted that the then-president had resisted signing documents
containing “specific numbers.” On Dec. 31, Eastman emailed other Trump lawyers that the numbers filed in state court were not accurate.

“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court
filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been
inaccurate,” Eastman wrote in an email to colleagues. “For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference)
would not be accurate.”

However, Trump and his lawyers opted to file the federal complaint using
the same numbers that Eastman conceded were inaccurate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/judge-trump-signed-court-document-that-knowingly-included-false-voter-fraud-stats-00062577

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