Connoisseurs of Trump attorney Ken Chesebro – cheeseheads, if you will – may remember that his work for the former president went beyond the fake electors scheme. Emails and memos from December 2020 and January 2021 showed that Chesebro also pitched an uncanny plan: that on Jan. 6 then-Vice President Mike Pence should “mak[e] judgements” about which electoral votes he was constitutionally obligated to open and count.
It will be quite interesting to see how these dominoes contrive to fall in order to preserve themselves and their larger project of a coup.
No doubt TRUMP has some plan to cause or exploit that chaos, and thereby shirk responsibility. A fusion of the mob and the upward failure of the C-suite.
Will be interesting to see Team Smith puncture that, if things get that far.
When prosecutors asked Chesebro why he replied to an edit of the Eastman memo with “really awesome,” the attorney said only that he thought “it was a really great brainstorm document. I didn’t mean it as I agreed.”
I don’t see a lot of profit in guessing games about who is undermining whose position in the prosecutions over aiding Trump in overturning election results. But I eagerly await an analysis after more of the major players are charged, convicted, and sentenced.
What jumps out from the Chesebro excerpt is when he seems to be downplaying his role in developing the idea that Pence had unilateral power to toss electoral votes on Jan. 6.
How does he "downplay " his role when his participation has been noted in multiple documents…what’s the cop out…I didn’t mean what I was saying at the time? What about that "awesome document " that then became not so awesome in retrospect…you have to believe Smiths group will be adroit with facts and time lines
Only a smarmy, smarter-than-the-rest-of-you lawyer who is in trouble with the law (and State Law Board) could believe that his “really awesome” commentary "didn’t mean it as I agreed.” No sensible member of the human race would agree with this Orwellian statement.
