Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro’s role in ‘fake electors’ plot
by Sam Levine in New York and Alice Herman in Madison from US news | The Guardian on (#6K44J)
Scheme was critical part of anti-democratic effort to overturn 2020 election and is now at center of two criminal cases against Trump
Kenneth Chesebro was eager to help.
It was five days after the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden was projected to defeat Donald Trump and win Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes. Trump's campaign was requesting a recount. Chesebro, a little-known Harvard-educated lawyer, believed there were abnormalities in the election and emailed Jim Troupis, a friend and former Wisconsin judge, to offer to help with any of the campaign's legal efforts.
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