Docs reveal new details of Trump lawyer’s fringe push to overturn 2020 election
Kenneth Chesebro was focused on the most vulnerable aspects of the transfer of power, newly released communications show.
A trove of documents released this week reveal extraordinary new details about the role of Kenneth Chesebro — a once-obscure conservative attorney — in driving the strategy to keep Donald Trump in power despite his defeat in the 2020 election.
Communications between Chesebro and a top Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin, Jim Troupis, show that Chesebro argued just days after the Nov. 3, 2020 election that creating a “cloud of confusion” by submitting dueling slates of electors would be enough to keep Joe Biden from becoming president.
The 1,439-page document dump, released as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by Democratic officials in Wisconsin, also provides a deeper glimpse into the mind of Chesebro, who became known as “ co-conspirator 5” in Trump’s Washington, D.C. indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith, and pleaded guilty to conspiring to file false documents in a related case brought by Georgia prosecutors.
The emails and texts show Chesebro was fixated on the areas of the transfer of power that had few guardrails, like the process of counting presidential electors by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Those vulnerable areas, Chesebro realized, could be exploited by Trump allies willing to advance unprecedented and fringe legal theories.
At each turn, as courts blew up aspects of his strategy, Chesebro clung to hope that his plan was succeeding. And when it ultimately fell apart, he privately lashed out at former Vice President Mike Pence, who he claimed blindsided the Trump team by refusing to acquiesce to their radical plan.
Here’s a look at some of the significant insights in the new documents:
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