Fox News host suggests Trump’s Russia case ‘fizzled’ after Steele dossier source acquitted
A federal judge has said Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the 2020 election results by claiming voter fraud despite knowing the allegations were false – and that the messages were clearly “related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States”.
“The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” US district court judge Carter said in a ruling on Wednesday.
Judge Carter issued an 18-page opinion ordering the release of the contentious emails between Mr Trump and his attorney John Eastman to the House committee probing the Jan 6 riots on the US capitol.
Meanwhile in a separate legal battle, Mr Trump has sat for a deposition in the defamation case brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who claims the former president raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s.
Ms Carroll sued Mr Trump in 2019 November in Manhattan federal court after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s and rubbished the rape accusations by saying at the time that Ms Carroll was “not my type”.
