US District Judge David Carter was mocked by Donald Trump in a post Thursday morning on the ex-president’s Truth social app
Donald Trump lashed out at California Judge David Carter on Thursday after accusing the former president of knowing he had given his name to false voter fraud allegations about the Georgia 2020 census.
He accused the Clinton-appointed lawyer of making “very nasty, false and ill-informed statements” in an environment where Trump cannot represent himself — in ongoing court cases against conspiracy theorist John Eastman.
A day earlier, the US District Judge issued an 18-page ruling in response to an offer by Eastman to block the release of his emails to the January 6 Committee of the House of Representatives.
He claimed some of those emails showed Trump lying to officials when he signed an affidavit confirming that Georgia 2020 election count data was incorrect.
“Who is this Clinton-appointed ‘judge’, David Carter, who keeps saying and sending out to everyone very nasty, false, and ill-informed testimonies about me or any case (whatever!) currently pending in California I don’t know anything about this – nor am I represented,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social app.
“With that in mind, please explain to this partisan hack that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen.”
He added: “Furthermore, he shouldn’t make statements about me until he understands the facts, which he doesn’t!”
Eastman has argued that his emails are protected by attorney-client privilege and should not be shared.
Carter said Wednesday the former president signed an affidavit claiming that the numbers on voter fraud included in a 2020 election lawsuit were accurate, despite being told the numbers weren’t accurate
John Eastman, Trump’s attorney, has fought his way through the courts to avoid surrendering his emails to the Jan. 6 committee. On Wednesday, a California judge ruled that eight of them must be filed
On Wednesday, Carter broadly agreed – but found eight emails in particular were relevant and should be handed over.
He found that they were encouraging a crime — one of the few cases in which these legal protections can be overturned.
Carter wrote that Eastman warned Trump that the data he used in December 2020 to claim his voice was stolen was incorrect.
Trump, Carter wrote, ignored the advice and then lied to the authorities by saying that massive voter fraud had occurred.
Meanwhile, Trump was embroiled in another legal drama on Wednesday. The former president had been ordered to testify by attorneys for writer E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist who is suing Trump for defamation after he denied her allegations of sexual assault.
“On December 4, 2020, President Trump and his attorneys, in a lawsuit filed in Georgia state court, alleged that Fulton County miscounted a number of votes, including 10,315 dead, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters,” Carter wrote.
“President Trump and his attorneys then decided to challenge the proceedings in federal court and discussed the inclusion by reference of the voter fraud numbers alleged in the state petition.
Trump called Carter’s statements about him at Eastman’s trial ‘evil, false and ill-informed’
“On December 30, 2020, Dr. Eastman ‘concerns’ from President Trump’s team ‘about including specific numbers in paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, relocated, etc.’
Lawyers continued to debate the President’s opposition to signing “if certain numbers were included.”
“Like Dr. Eastman stated the next day, “Although the President signed an acknowledgment for [the state court filing] As early as December 1, he was made aware that some of the claims (and evidence presented by the experts) were inaccurate. It would not be correct for him to sign a new endorsement knowing this (and being incorporated by reference).’
“President Trump and his attorneys eventually filed the complaint using the same inaccurate numbers without correcting, clarifying, or otherwise altering them.”
Eastman officials have yet to comment on the order.
Carter said Wednesday that, to the best of his knowledge, Trump “signed an affidavit” that the inaccurate fraud numbers were “true and correct” or “believed to be true and correct.”
“The emails show that President Trump knew the specific numbers of voter fraud were incorrect, but continued to touting those numbers both in court and in public,” the judge wrote.
Carter has previously ruled that Eastman and Trump likely committed a crime by attempting to pressure his then-vice president to obstruct Congress.
The Clinton-appointed judge previously ordered Eastman to deliver over 200 emails to the committee after the attorney resisted the subpoena.
Carter, who began his career as an assistant district attorney, was the first prosecutor in the case of serial killer William Bonin, also known as “The Freeway Killer,” who became the first person in California to be executed by lethal injection in 1996.
Clinton appointed him to the Bundesbank in October 1988.
In 2000, he presided over the trial of 40 members of the Mexican Mafia in what would become the longest-running case in Central California history.
In 2002, he awarded over $88 million in damages to Anna Nicole Smith, who was fighting for a portion of the estate of her late billionaire, J. Howard Marshall.
The judge said Wednesday that the vast majority of emails still being sought by congressional investigators should not be turned over because legal protections for attorneys and their clients over the records apply.
Carter noted that four emails show that Eastman and other attorneys suggested the “primary goal” of filing lawsuits was to delay Congressional confirmation of the 2020 election results.
The judge said four more emails “show efforts by President Trump and his attorneys to make false allegations in federal courts to delay the Jan. 6 vote.”
Trump and his allies filed over 60 lawsuits to contest the 2020 election, which Biden won, with some allegations of voter fraud with no evidence to support those claims.
Those cases were overwhelmingly rejected by judges, some appointed by Trump to the federal courts.
The Jan. 6 special committee last week voted to subpoena Trump in his investigation. She will publish a report on her findings in the coming weeks.