A federal judge has released 8 internal emails by Trump conspirator John Eastman (photo, left) to the House January 6 committee that show Trump lawyers lied to courts in their efforts to obstruct Congress’ certification of the 2020 election, CNN reported on Sunday, October 30, 2022 (read story here).
Eastman was a principal architect of the illegal scheme to derail Senate certification and push the election into the House, where Republicans in control of 26 state delegations — to the Democrats’ 24 state delegations — would’ve chosen Trump and thwarted the will of America’s voters, who chose Biden by more than 7 million votes.
He’s already been fired from his law professorship in Colorado, and faces being stripped of his law license in California bar disciplinary proceedings. Sunday’s revelations suggest his emails could take other Trump lawyers down with him, as it’s unethical for attorneys to lie to courts.
The House committee had been trying to get the emails for months, and has “repeatedly argued that a core tenet of Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election results was to file frivolous lawsuits intended to delay certification of the results,” CNN said. The emails turned over to the committee on Friday, October 28, 2022, could also serve as evidence for potential criminal charges.
“The emails that the committee finally has accessed include four communications between Trump attorneys that appear to indicate they knew details they submitted to courts to challenge the election were false, and four emails that reveal them discussing filing lawsuits as a way to hold off congressional certification of Trump’s electoral loss,” CNN said, a strategy that consisted of committing a fraud upon the courts.
Eastman, a major villain in Trump’s coup attempt, is currently on the payroll of the Claremont Institute, a California-based far-right think tank some critics characterize as a fascist advocacy organization (see story here).