Another day, another revelation that Trump is a scum-sucking pig who wouldn't bat an eye about fucking his own grandma out of her pension.
When does this prick see the inside of a jail cell?
Federal judge finds that Trump lied under oath about voter fraud in Georgia while trying to overturn the 2020 election results
A federal judge said Wednesday Trump lied under oath about voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Trump knew the fraud figures were wrong but touted them in court and publicly, the judge said.
This came in a ruling saying a GOP lawyer must give his communications to the Capitol-riot panel.
A federal judge said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump lied under oath about voter fraud in Georgia while trying to get the state's 2020 election results overturned.
US District Judge David Carter made the determination in a ruling ordering the conservative lawyer John Eastman to turn over to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, a batch 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 state court alleging that Fulton County had miscounted thousands of votes. It also contested the state court's proceedings in federal court.
But later that month, according to Carter's ruling, Eastman said in an email that while Trump had "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 added: "For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.'"
Trump and his lawyers still filed their complaint citing those numbers, and Trump signed a letter "swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers 'are true and correct' or 'believed to be true and correct' to the best of his knowledge and belief," Carter wrote.
He added: "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."
Wednesday wasn't the first time Carter suggested the former president committed a crime in connection to his crusade to undermine the 2020 election results.
In a March ruling, the judge said Trump likely obstructed Congress — a felony — when he tried to disrupt the election-certification process on January 6.
Carter pointed out the dozens of lawsuits Trump's campaign and his Republican allies filed in court contesting the election results in battleground states that now-President Joe Biden won.
After "filing and losing more than sixty suits, this plan was a last-ditch attempt to secure the Presidency by any means," the ruling said, adding that the "illegality of the plan was obvious."
Trump and Eastman "launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history," Carter wrote, adding: "Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower — it was a coup in search of a legal theory."
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