The ‘brains’ behind fake #Trump electors was once a liberal Democrat (say what now?)

Kenneth #Chesebro, a #Harvard-trained #lawyer, may be the least well known of the main players in Trump’s #federal & #Georgia #indictments

#law #legal #criminal #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #Fraud #forgery #FakeElectors #DOJ #Justice #Corruption
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/16/kenneth-cheseboro-trump-indictment-fake-electors/

The ‘brains’ behind fake Trump electors was once a liberal Democrat

Kenneth Chesebro, a Harvard-trained lawyer, is the least well known of the main players in Trump’s federal and Georgia indictments.

The Washington Post

Since #Jan6, 2021, #Chesebro has kept a low profile. He decamped to his “tropical refuge” in Puerto Rico “a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the N coast of the Caribbean island” from NY last yr.

(Nothing says “innocent” as much as ensconcing yourself behind gates on an island)

#Lawyers handling a case against him in #Wisconsin have told a judge they were unable to locate him. Even the House select Jan6 Cmte… did not depose him until last fall, …bc it had trouble finding him….

“…friends said his politics seemed to shift after he reaped sizable returns from his investments in cryptocurrency in the past half-decade. He began to stake out more-#libertarian positions in #legal briefs, especially in his home state of #Wisconsin, where he started donating to #Republicans & working w/ a fmr judge, Jim #Troupis, who #Chesebro would later testify under oath had brought him into #Trump’s orbit.

#Greed #Corruption #Power

“…In 2014, #Chesebro invested in a bitcoin fund overseen by Grayscale, a cryptocurrency asset manager…. He said he invested a ‘low six-figure sum’ & ended up making ‘several million dollars’ when he sold in 2017.…

“In 2016, he changed his party registration in Massachusetts from Democrat to unaffiliated…. Around the same time, the #political bent of his #legal briefs became less predictable, friends & colleagues said.

#Greed #Corruption #Power
#Republicans #Trump

“…that yr, he joined…#Wisconsin Inst for #Law & Liberty, a #conservative firm based in Milwaukee, to file an amicus brief supporting the state legislature’s ban on residency reqs for most muni #jobs, reqs favored by the Dem-leaning city.
“4 mos later, he worked w/John #Eastman, constitutional #lawyer affiliated w/ #RightWing Claremont Inst, on an amicus brief that cast birthright #citizenship, the constitutional guarantee that anyone born in the US is a #citizen, as a ‘vestige of feudal times.’

#Eastman, who would go on to advise #Trump after the 2020 election… was also #indicted Mon in #Georgia.

#Chesebro worked again w/a Claremont Inst affiliate in ‘18, on a #Wisconsin case that involved a poli-sci prof who argued he was improperly suspended after criticizing a grad student on his #conservative blog. The case became a fault line in vexed debates over campus #speech. Also involved was #Troupis, the WI #lawyer & fmr county judge who would… represent the #Trump campaign in the state.

#Chesebro soon began doing #legal work for #national #Republicans…, joining #Troupis as #counsel for Sens #MikeLee of UT & #TedCruz of TX & others on an amicus brief in the fall of 2018 that backed the UT #GOP in its efforts to assert greater #control over the selection of party nominees.

“He also became a GOP #donor, first that fall to candidates running for federal office in #Wisconsin & then, starting in 2020, to numerous national Republicans. He contributed $2,800 to #Trump’s reelection….
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