Trump Committed 'Another Crime' by Filing False Court Documents: Kirschner

The final scheduled hearing for the January 6 House Select Committee occurred last week, but it's not the end of the story for former President Donald Trump.

The committee subpoenaed Trump at the end of the hearing to provide relevant documents and testimony under oath as part of the committee's investigation of his involvement in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. Included in the testimony might be four emails from Trump's attorney, John Eastman, after a federal judge ruled that Trump signed a court document with voter fraud claims he knew to be fake, subjecting himself to perjury and potential other charges.

Eastman has previously declined to turn over the emails, citing attorney-client privilege, but Judge David Carter's ruling means four emails must be turned over because they included evidence of a "likely crime," according to Politico.

The emails include information about a lawsuit Trump and his attorneys filed in Georgia alleging that Fulton County improperly counted more than 10,000 votes in favor of President Joe Biden.

According to Politico, Eastman communicated with other Trump attorneys that the numbers were not correct, and that Trump had been made aware of the inaccuracy. Trump signed a new verification anyway, acknowledging the fraud despite knowing the numbers weren't true.

"President Trump, moreover, signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers 'are true and correct' or 'believed to be true and correct' to the best of his knowledge and belief," Carter wrote in his 18-page opinion defining his ruling.

"The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public. The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States."

NBC News legal analyst and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner published a video Wednesday night detailing Carter's ruling.

"Judge David Carter rules Trump KNOWINGLY filed false documents in court," Kirschner tweeted with the video. "And yes, this constitutes yet ANOTHER crime by Donald Trump."

Kirschner said the judge's ruling means two of the three branches of federal government have said that Trump committed federal crimes. Kirschner said the legislative branch—in this case the January 6 House Select Committee investigating the riot—concluded that Trump committed crimes in connection with the insurrection.

"Thankfully, they have shown us evidence of those crimes in public hearings," Kirschner said.

Carter's ruling means that the judicial branch has come to the same conclusion, according to Kirschner.

"So we are just waiting for the third branch of government, the executive branch, the Department of Justice, to make it a clean sweep," Kirschner said, adding that he thinks indictments will begin arriving shortly after midterm elections on November 8. "Because justice matters."

Even if Trump's allegations about Fulton County were correct, he still wouldn't have received enough Electoral College votes to beat Biden in the election.

Newsweek reached out to a Trump representative for comment.