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Matt Watts

Judge says Trump ‘more likely than not’ committed crime in bid to block Biden presidential election victory

Donald Trump

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A US judge ruled on Monday that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony as he tried to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.

District Judge David Carter in Los Angeles made the assertion in a written ruling that found the House of Representatives committee probing the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6 last year has a right to see emails written to the former president by one of his then-lawyers, John Eastman.

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