Wednesday, April 06, 2022

January 6 Panel Receives Trump Lawyer Emails about Plan to Block Biden Victory

THE GUARDIAN: House panel receives 101 emails belonging John Eastman, concerning plans to obstruct certification of 2020 election result

John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani in Washington DC on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol has received a cache of emails belonging to Donald Trump’s lawyer, John Eastman, federal court documents filed on Tuesday show.

The 101 emails were released to the committee after Judge David Carter ruled In federal court in California last week that Eastman, a hard-right supporter of the former US president, had not made a sufficient claim to attorney-client privilege.

The cache of documents, sent between 4 and 7 January 2021, contains extensive communications between Eastman and others about plans to obstruct the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. » | Oliver Laughland | Wednesday, April 6, 2022

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