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Clinton-appointed California federal judge declares Trump LIED in election lawsuit: Claims he was warned by attorney that 'specific voter fraud numbers were wrong - but ex-president still attested to those numbers in sworn statement anyway'
October 19, 2022
A California federal judge on Wednesday said then-President Donald Trump had signed a sworn statement asserting that voter fraud numbers were accurate
Trump had been told by his lawyer, John Eastman, that the numbers were not correct
U.S. District Judge David Carter ordered Eastman to provide more emails to the January 6 House committee
Eastman was one of Trump's attorneys when the former president and his allies challenged his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden
Judge Carter said Wednesday that Trump had 'signed a verification swearing under oath' that the inaccurate fraud numbers were 'true and correct'
'The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers,' the judge said
The ruling was made in a lawsuit filed by Eastman to block disclosure of the emails to the January 6 committee
Donald Trump knew the data used to claim election fraud in Georgia was 'inaccurate' but signed a sworn statement confirming the legitimacy of the figures, a Californian judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge David Carteron Wednesday issued an 18-page ruling in response to a bid by Trump's former lawyer John Eastman to block the release of his emails to the January 6 Committee.
Eastman has argued the emails are protected under attorney-client privilege, and should not be handed over.
On Wednesday, Carter broadly agreed - but found eight emails in particular were relevant, and should be handed over.
He found they were in furtherance of a crime - one of the few times those legal safeguards can be lifted.
Carter wrote that Eastman warned Trump the data he was using, in December 2020, to claim the vote was stolen from him was not accurate.
Trump, Carter wrote, ignored the advice and then lied to the authorities by declaring that voter fraud had occurred on a massive scale.
On December 4, 2020, President Trump and his attorneys alleged in a Georgia state court action that Fulton County improperly counted a number of votes including 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters,' Carter wrote.
'President Trump and his attorneys then decided to contest the state court proceeding in federal court, and discussed incorporating by reference the voter fraud numbers alleged in the state petition.
'On December 30, 2020, Dr. Eastman relayed 'concerns' from President Trump's team 'about including specific numbers in the paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, moved, etc.'
'The attorneys continued to discuss the President's resistance to signing 'when specific numbers were included.'
'As Dr. Eastman explained the next day: '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. For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.'
Carter, who begun his career as an assistant district attorney, was the initial prosecutor in the case of serial killer William Bonin, also known as 'The Freeway Killer,' who became the first person executed by lethal injection in California in 1996.
Clinton appointed him to the federal bench in October 1988.
Sauce: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11333833/Trump-LIED-federal-court-Georgia-election-lawsuit-judge-finds.html
Jonathan Turley opines re: Judge Carter's prior ruling:
“The Illegality…Was Obvious”: An Analysis of the Carter Opinion on Jan. 6th
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/02/the-illegality-was-obvious-an-analysis-of-the-carter-opinion-on-jan-6th/
Screencap- full Turley article