A federal judge ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump and lawyer John Eastman 'more likely than not' committed crimes in their efforts to obstruct the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
, Carter laid out a meticulous timeline of Trump's efforts to convince elected officials and the public of his bogus claim that his loss to Biden was attributable to election fraud. The ruling, which can still be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, will no doubt raise expectations on Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch a Justice Department investigation of the former president that could result in criminal charges.
"In the months following the election, numerous credible sources — from the President’s inner circle to agency leadership to statisticians — informed President Trump and Dr. Eastman that there was no evidence of election fraud," Carter wrote, adding, "An internal Trump Campaign memo concluded in November that fraud claims related to Dominion voting machines were baseless.
Trump and Eastman, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, have fought to keep their records from being turned over to the Jan. 6 panel. In January, however, the Supreme Court rejected arguments made by Trump's lawyers that the National Archives could withhold hundreds of pages of documents from the select committee.
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