When I spoke with Ken Chesebro last year across several interviews, one thing was clear: He saw himself as an elite appellate lawyer and needed recognition.
Chesebro told me that the day disappointed him. The delay that those legal theories were meant to achieve didn’t get him what he wanted: a debate about “serious concerns about the election in several states that were never really addressed on the merits.”
I’m sorry…what was the count? 32 - 0 on the merits?!?
Chesebro: “I’m profoundly disappointed that nobody gave serious consideration to living in my Potemkin village. I worked hard on those facades!”
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as far as I could tell, none of the conservative justices knew who I was,” Chesebro told TPM.
I stopped short on that comment.
What a bunch of sad and empty suits have been attracted to the sorriest cause since the Civil War.
Someone should explain to Chesebro the difference between famous and infamous.
Pride goeth before the fall.
All is vanity.
What goes around comes around.
Karma wins again: Cheese is toast.
Chesebro, ever the attorney, never came close to suggesting that his aim was to overthrow the government: rather, he simply had a dispute which he was working to resolve.
There was no dispute, all states had completed the counting of their votes by J6th. The court cases that Trump & Co brought were delt with.
He condemned the violence of January 6, but in limited terms. It was a “human disaster,” he said, but also a failure to achieve the aim of the plans he had set forth: create maximum delay of Biden’s win to allow more debate around the election.
How many more debates were needed? Votes were counted, and recounted. I wish Josh K had asked Cheesehead how many times should the votes be counted before the results are accepted?
Chesebro Or Eastman: Who Really Masterminded Stop The Steal?
Since they are both blithering assholes it could be either one.
Didn’t they lose 60 lawsuits?
So basically he helped start a coup because he wasn’t getting enough attaboys from the people he wanted to impress?
I can’t tell if that’s better or worse than tfg selling the country out to the russians because Obama made a joke about him.
Chesebro reminds me of my days in biology. He thinks of our Democracy as some kind of animal experiment where the animal is sacrificed at the end to measure how it all works, and if it is working right, despite all the evidence that it is, just to make sure because it would be cool if it wasn’t.
Rather messy, and may be the only way to do some biology; but the problem here, there is only one very important animal, our Democracy, we are all dependent on it, and killing it for testing legal ideas no one else cares about seems like a bad idea.
Of course, may be he is a just tiny bit of a sociopath.
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The votes should have been recounted until Trump won…that would be their opinion.
The other half were tossed due to technical issues, which Republicans try to turn into all the lawsuits not being evaluated based on the evidence. That is, of course, a lie.
The only thing Chesbro has correct is that it is a lawyer’s job to game out the options for their clients. They are supposed to corral that in things that are legal, but, to be fair, there is a bit of uncertainty in the electoral law. So, when Chesebro first presented his argument, before the counts and lawsuits were completed, it might have had some merit, but by mid-December the counts had all been certified properly and the lawsuits were all failing. At that point, they should have stopped grasping at straws and given in…that’s what Al Gore did in 2000, which is the closest case to this in recent times.
I don’t think there would be any charges against them if they had given in like they should have, but of course they tried to put into motion a conspiracy to throw out the certified election results and install the president they wanted…this is why they are all very likely to be indicted and tried, and if the justice system works convicted of their clear crimes and sentenced to jail time.
Oh, and the fact that the person who came up with this is named Chesebro just shows that whoever is creating this script is a lazy asshole who is jerking us all around for the fun of it.
I’m sure between each other they competed for credit for this crime. Now judgement is coming.
I sure would like to bet on who rolls over effectively. Who is gonna give the testimony that actually sinks Trump. Probably Trump himself though. He just can’t STFU
I just want to know if Josh K took a shower after that interview. Jeez!
I had a very nice boss once named Chesemore (Chez-more) whose bane was folks calling him Cheese-more. He was a really big guy, so at least no one did it to his face and when he testified in front of Congress, they pronounced his name properly.
I had a similar type question the other day. Something along the lines of Quayle or Luttig: Who really talked Pence out of becoming a total loser and seditionist?
They’re working on it?
It would be too delish if Chesebro was born and raised in WI.
no such thing as bad publicity something something?
A coup by paper is just as much of a coup as one done by gun.
Neither! It was…dun dun DUUUUUUUN…
