LATEST NEWS: The Jan. 6 committee says it believes Trump committed crimes in an attempt to cancel the 2020 presidential election.
The U.S. House of Representatives Commission to Investigate the Capitol Revolt on January 6, 2021 said in a court file Wednesday that it believes the former president Donald Trump violated “many laws” in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The documents claim that the commission does not agree with the statement of lawyer John Eastman, who is behind the notorious “coup method”, which claims that the former vice president Mike Pence there was unilateral power to undo Trump’s loss Joe Biden.
Eastman, who is currently under investigation by California The State Bar Association cites the privilege of a client lawyer to avoid testifying.
The committee says Eastman does not have such a privilege because he believes he and others, including Trump, “may have been involved in criminal and / or fraudulent activities” in their attempts to cancel the election.
They claim in the documentation that they have enough evidence to show “grounds for good faith in concluding that President Trump violated Section 18 of USC § 1512 (c) (2)” or obstructing an official act of Congress.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conference on Conservative Political Action in 2022
They believe that Trump and his associates did this and did it with the intention of breaking the law.
The House of Representatives committee, which includes only two Republicans, anti-Trump Liz Cheney and Adam Kensinger, added that there was “a basis of good faith to conclude that the president and members of his campaign were involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud.” United States in violation of 18 USC § 371. ‘
Eastman, a former dean of the Chapman University School of Law in Southern California, said after the November 2020 election that then-Vice President Mike Pence could undo the results and keep Trump in power. Critics likened it to instructions for a coup.
Pence refused to do so, and Trump resigned. But Eastman has since been summoned by a commission of U.S. lawmakers investigating the Capitol uprising on Jan. 6.
On Tuesday, the California state attorney’s office confirmed that it had been investigating Eastman since September. Such investigations are usually kept secret, but according to the rules of the State Attorney’s Office, it can publicly confirm them, “when it is justified to protect society.”
In a press release, the bar said “the details of the investigation must remain confidential” in order to comply with state law and “give the investigation the best chance of success”.
George Cardona, the state’s attorney general, is investigating and prosecuting the lawyer’s disciplinary matters before the State Bar, which may recommend that lawyers be either suspended or, in some cases, lose their license to practice law. The California Supreme Court ultimately decides what to do.
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