In a federal court filing, the committee suggested the emails it is trying to obtain will show Trump himself violated multiple laws
The House Jan. 6 select committee says former President Trump and his campaign may have tried to illegally obstruct Congress’ counting of electoral votes and “engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”the committee alleges that emails it is trying to obtain will show that Trump himself violated multiple laws by attempting to prevent Congress from certifying his defeat in the 2020 election.
were unfounded, but that Trump rejected the facts and continued to mislead his supporters and demand a strategy for overturning the results.The filing was made in response to former Trump lawyer John Eastman’s challenge of a subpoena from the committee, in which he said that thousands of emails held by his former employer Chapman University are protected by attorney-client privilege. He became a key legal advisor to Trump in the weeks after his loss to Joe Biden.
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately return a request for comment. A call to Eastman’s attorney was not immediately returned either.The U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Trump’s effort to block release of documents from his administration to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee.
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