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A California judge ruled on Wednesday that the ex-president deliberately misrepresented alleged fraud figures in court documents. The judge saw this as sufficient evidence of attempted felony to suspend attorney-client privilege for several emails between Trump and his attorney, John Eastman.

The lawsuits concern Eastman’s attempts to hold e-mail exchanges with Trump before the US House of Representatives inquiry into the Washington Capitol bombing in January 2021. Trump supporters stormed the House of Representatives at the time – while Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election would be officially sealed there. Trump had previously incited supporters at a White House rally by repeating his false accusations that Biden won only through voter fraud.

After the election, Trump and his associates filed several dozen lawsuits in the United States over alleged voting irregularities — virtually all of them failed. The judge specifically referred to a lawsuit filed in Georgia, in which Trump and his lawyers allege, among other things, that 10,315 deaths were counted in Fulton County.

A day later, Eastman wrote in an email that Trump was subsequently informed that some of the information was incorrect. Nevertheless, Trump and his lawyers “filed the lawsuit with the same incorrect figures,” the judge said. And Trump also assured under oath that all information was correct to the best of his knowledge.

“The emails show that President Trump knew these specific voter fraud numbers were false, but continued to disseminate them, both in court documents and to the public,” California Judge David Carter wrote. Eastman’s emails were related to a “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Eastman is now scheduled to submit 33 documents to the Commission of Inquiry by October 28. The commission recently decided to subpoena Trump. (sda/dpa)