One of former President Trump’s co-defendants in the sweeping Georgia election interference case plans to meet with investigators in states still probing efforts to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
Kenneth Chesebro — a Trump lawyer who helped craft the alternate electors scheme pushing to certify slates of Trump-supporting “fake” electors in battleground states instead of the true electoral votes cast for Biden — plans to meet with investigators in Nevada and Arizona in the near future, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Chesebro pleaded guilty last month to one count of conspiracy to file false documents, a lesser charge than the seven felony counts he originally faced including a state Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charge. Those charges mainly pertained to Chesebro’s efforts to organize the pro-Trump electors, who ultimately met in seven states won by now-President Biden.
Why the quotes around the word fake in the article?
Probably because they were illegally submitted as actual electors, so “fake electors” is a shorthand for a longer concept
I’m not sure exactly of the legal terminology of “fake electors” but grammatically, this is why it might be used.
I will never get tired of using this gif in relation to Trump’s legal problems.
Cheez lookin worse for the wear
The man’s just one e away from having one of the best surnames
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Those charges mainly pertained to Chesebro’s efforts to organize the pro-Trump electors, who ultimately met in seven states won by now-President Biden.
Following his guilty plea, Chesebro’s counsel asked the court to modify his probation rules to allow for travel to Nevada, Arizona and Washington, D.C., for ongoing “investigations of the ‘election fraud’ cases.”
A spokesperson for Arizona’s attorney general’s office confirmed to The Hill that its probe into the slate of fake electors there is also ongoing.
Nevada officials have offered Chesebro a “proffer” agreement where they agreed not to charge him in exchange for truthful testimony, while in Arizona there is no such deal — and in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, no such outreach has been made at all, according to the Post.
Still, the probes in Nevada and Arizona could prove to be contentious for Trump and his allies in the future as more evidence is unearthed in those investigations and the Georgia case moves forward to trial.
A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office previously declined to comment on whether it is looking into the state’s fake electors scheme.
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