The January 6 Committee has filed a court briefing alleging that Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the strongest indication yet that they may have committed crimes after he lost.
, which was facilitated by Trump’s campaign staff, along with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Trump and his associates “obstructed a lawful governmental function by pressuring the Vice President to violate his duty to count the electoral certificates presented from certain States,”
. “As an alternative, they urged the Vice President to delay the count to allow state legislatures to convene and select alternate electors.”from committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney said, but privilege claims from Eastman “raise the question whether the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege applies in this situation.”
“The facts we’ve gathered strongly suggest that Dr. Eastman’s emails may show that he helped Donald Trump advance a corrupt scheme to obstruct the counting of electoral college ballots and a conspiracy to impede the transfer of power,” they added. The committee also suggested that Trump publicly claimed that election fraud had altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential raceCiting an interview with a former Trump associate, the committee writes that campaign data experts “told the President ‘in pretty blunt terms’ that he was going to lose” after the polls closed in 2020.
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