Politico reports:
Attorney John Eastman, a key architect of Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election, is preparing to provide another 10,000 pages of records to the Jan. 6 select committee, his attorney revealed late Friday. It’s the latest breakthrough for investigators in their ongoing fight to obtain details of Trump’s last-ditch plans to overturn his election loss.
Eastman had claimed attorney-client privilege over 37,000 pages of post-election emails related to his work for Trump. But under pressure from U.S. District Court Judge David Carter — who ruled in March that Eastman and Trump likely entered into a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election — Eastman withdrew privilege claims for nearly a third of that total.
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NEW: Last night, John EASTMAN agreed to produce 10,000 pages of emails of his Trump-related efforts to the Jan. 6 select committee, a massive trove that could provide new leads to the panel.
But a broader legal fight over another 27,000 pages looms.https://t.co/u2MXn0It9F
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