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Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the 'Fake Electors' Scheme
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Source: New York Times
Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.
Through litigation, Mr. Chesebro said, the Trump campaign could allege various systemic abuses and, with court proceedings pending, encourage legislatures to appoint alternative pro-Trump electors that could be certified instead of the Biden electors chosen by the voters.
At minimum, with such a cloud of confusion, no votes from WI (and perhaps also MI and PA) should be counted, perhaps enough to throw the election to the House, Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Troupis, referring to the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Troupis quickly brought Mr. Chesebro into the Trump legal team, directed him to lay out the plans in a series of memos now central to the indictment of Donald J. Trump and a month later with the help of Reince Priebus, the former White House chief of staff secured a meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House.
Through litigation, Mr. Chesebro said, the Trump campaign could allege various systemic abuses and, with court proceedings pending, encourage legislatures to appoint alternative pro-Trump electors that could be certified instead of the Biden electors chosen by the voters.
At minimum, with such a cloud of confusion, no votes from WI (and perhaps also MI and PA) should be counted, perhaps enough to throw the election to the House, Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Troupis, referring to the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Troupis quickly brought Mr. Chesebro into the Trump legal team, directed him to lay out the plans in a series of memos now central to the indictment of Donald J. Trump and a month later with the help of Reince Priebus, the former White House chief of staff secured a meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/politics/chesebro-troupis-jan-6-messages.html
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brooklynite
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PatSeg
(47,496 posts)1. Makes you wonder
how much more don't we know and what wouldn't these people do to win an election?
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Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)2. Where the hell is Josh Kaul, the AG in WI? From what I have gathered, the perps barely got a slap on the wrist
Oooh, tough one, and they were told not to work as an elector in the future. Not bad, huh? A carefully crafted plan to overthrow the will of the people, big guns brought in to implement the coup, and they basically get off with a kiss on the cheek. What a joke.
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Lasher
(27,597 posts)3. Locking LBN dupe.
Please continue discussion in this earlier thread.
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