The judge said that Trump lied about voter fraud.
Judge David Carter wrote that Trump "knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong" but still promoted them.
Carter ruled in favor of the committee and ordered the lawyer to turn over his communications.
A federal judge said that Donald Trump lied about voter fraud in Georgia while trying to get the results of the 2020 election overturned.
US District Judge David Carter ordered the conservative lawyer John Eastman to turn over a bunch of his communications related to Trump's and his allies' efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.
On December 4, 2020, Trump's legal team filed a lawsuit in Georgia claiming that Fulton County had miscounted thousands of votes. The state court's proceedings were heard in federal court.
In his ruling, Carter wrote that although Trump had signed a verification for the state court filing, he had been made aware of some of the allegations. He wouldn't be able to sign a new verification with that knowledge.
Carter wrote that Trump signed a letter "swearing under oath that the numbers are true and correct" or "believed to be true and correct" to the best of his knowledge.
The emails show that President Trump knew the numbers of voter fraud were incorrect but continued to tout them.
Carter has suggested in the past that the former president committed a crime in relation to his crusade to subvert the election results.
The judge said in a March ruling that Trump probably obstructed Congress when he tried to disrupt the election certification process.
Carter pointed out the dozens of lawsuits Trump's campaign and his Republican allies filed in court contesting the election results in battleground states.
The plan was a last-ditch attempt to secure the Presidency after more than sixty suits were filed and lost.
The campaign to overturn the election was unprecedented in American history. The campaign was not limited to the ivory tower.
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