Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
A federal judge stated that Trump's emails are evidence of a crime, and that Trump led a “knowing misrepresentation of voter fraud numbers in Georgia when seeking to overturn the election results in federal court.”
District Court Judge Carter ordered the public release of incriminating emails that show Trump knowingly lied about voter fraud in legal court filings. “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,” Carter wrote. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
Trump supporters gather for the rally before the Attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
By Philip Bump
During the 2020 election cycle, as the results for Georgia were being finalized, Trump's team filed a lawsuit alleging the state participated in specific acts of voter fraud, while knowing and being continuously told the opposite was true.
John Eastman was ordered to turn over 33 new documents—including four emails between Trump and his attorneys clearly demonstrating a push to press false claims about the elections.
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