Secret #Memo Laid Out Strategy for #Trump to Overturn #Biden’s Win
A #lawyer allied w/Trump first laid out a plot to use #FakeElectors to subvert the #2020election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a #criminal #conspiracy.
#Chesebro #Jan6 #law #crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/trump-indictment-fake-electors-memo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The existence of the Dec 6, 2020, #memo came to light in last week’s #indictment of #Trump, though its details remained unclear. But a copy obtained by The NY Times shows for the first time that the #lawyer, Kenneth #Chesebro, acknowledged from the start that he was proposing “a bold, controversial strategy” that the #SupremeCourt “likely” would reject in the end.
#FakeElectors #2020election #conspiracy
#Chesebro #Jan6 #law #crime #DOJ
The #SecretMemo had been a missing link in the public record of how #Trump’s allies developed their strategy to overturn #Biden’s victory. In mid-Dec, the #FakeElectors could go through the motions of voting as if they had the authority to do so. Then, on #Jan6 VP #MikePence could unilaterally count those…, rather than the ofcl & certified ones for Biden.
While that basic plan itself was already known, the memo provides new #details about how it originated & was discussed behind the scenes.
…“I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy, & that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on #Jan6,” #Chesebro wrote. “But as long as it is one possible option, to preserve it as a possibility it is important that the #Trump-Pence electors cast their electoral votes on Dec. 14.”
Three days later, Chesebro drew up specific instructions to create #fraudulent electors in multiple states — in another memo….
“I believe that what can be achieved on #Jan6 is not simply to keep Biden below 270 electoral votes,” #Chesebro wrote in the… #memo. “It seems feasible that the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will #Trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless & until Biden can obtain a favorable decision from the #SupremeCourt upholding the #ElectoralCountAct as constitutional, or otherwise recognizing the power of Congress (& not the president of the Senate) to count the votes.”
Prosecutors are still hearing evidence related to the investigation, even after charges were leveled against #Trump…. The #Jan6 House Cmte last year released emails its investigators obtained showing that #Chesebro had sent copies of the 2 previously reported memos, one from Nov 18 & another from Dec 9, to allies in the states working on the #FakeElectors’ plan.
But he did not attach his Dec 6 #memo…
#Chesebro… addressed the second #memo to James R. Troupis, a lawyer who was assisting the #Trump campaign’s efforts to challenge Biden’s victory in Wisconsin.
By the next day, the #indictment said, Chesebro’s memo had reached #Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer.
Giuliani… spoke w/…Co-Conspirator 6 (Boris Epshteyn) about finding #lawyers to help w/the effort in seven states. …That day, #Epshteyn sent Giuliani an email recommending lawyers in those seven states.
yes, & Jim #Troupis was REappointed to the #Wisconsin #Judicial Advisory Panel.
The #WisconsinSupremeCourt ordered the reappointment of #attorney James R. Troupis to the #JudicialConduct Advisory Committee for a term that runs until March 7, 2026. The court's 4 #conservative justices supported his reappointment while 3 liberal justices dissented.
#Corruption #Law
https://www.wpr.org/jim-troupislawyer-trump-fake-elector-scheme-judicial-advisory-panel-wisconsin-supreme-court
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