Kenneth Chesebro denied using Twitter, now X. Still, the investigation found that former Trump’s attorney used secret X to spread conspiracies on how the former president could avoid leaving office, as reported by CNN and Talking Points Memo.
Chesebro’s lawyer confirmed the secret X account’s identity
Lawyers for the key figure in the alleged fake electors scheme in Michigan confirmed to CNN that the handle BadgerPundit on X belonged to Cheesbro. They described it as a “random stream of consciousness” and stated it had nothing to do with his legal work for former President Trump.
Chesebro denied “any tweeting”
In the interview with Michigan investigators, Cheesebro said he did not do “any tweeting.” Furthermore, he also told investigators that in his discussions with Trump and his allies, he made it crystal clear that the “state legislatures have no power to override the courts.”
BadgerPundit posts said otherwise
On November 7, 2020, Cheesbro’s secret account, BadgerPundit, wrote, “You don’t get the big picture. Trump doesn’t have to get courts to declare him the winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican legislatures that the election was systematically rigged, but it’s impossible to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead.”
BadgerPundit posted about Pence’s power
Cheesbro’s secret account, which his lawyers described as him “just being a goof,” posted over 50 times that then-Vice President Mike Pence could use his power to “count the electors benefitting Trump,” CNN KFile analysis reported. He also said he knew nothing about a report from The Atlantic related to the 2020 election, but BadgerPundit defended it. The Atlantic’s article said in part, “If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result.”
Cheesbro’s guilty plea
In October 2023, Cheesbro, one of the co-defendants in the Georgia case, pled guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. The indictment said he “provides detailed, state-specific instructions for how Trump presidential nominees in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would meet and cast electoral votes” for Trump, despite the former president’s loss in these states.
“Legally perilous path”
Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University, reviewed the posts and shared with CNN that Cheesbro “appears to have pursued a legally perilous path in his dealings with Michigan authorities.” This puts the former Trump’s lawyer into “great legal risk.”
This could affect his plea deal
The law professor stated that posts suggested Cheesbro made false statements and added that the discovery put the whole “cooperation agreement” in danger.
Cheesbro’s mistake
In one of Cheesbro’s emails to Trump, CNN verified that he used an address linked to his Google account, [email protected]. This led to connecting the email address to BadgerPundit, who had that address as the contact information. Furthermore, Chesebro sent the posts to Trump.
BadgerPundit and Cheesbro supported Alex Jones
There were numerous instances showing that the two were connected. It includes a biography supporting Alex JOnes’ January 6 conspiracy theories and even some details about Trump’s stay in a DC hotel.
“I was educating them”
Speaking to Michigan investigators, Chesebro said he did not know of Trump’s plans to deploy “alternate electors.” He explained, “I naively assumed that it hadn’t occurred to them to have alternate electors. That is, I only thought of it because I’d been involved in Bush v. Gore in 2000,” adding, ” I thought I was educating them about this.”
Blaming the Trump campaign
In the same interview, Chesebro continued, “The idea of alternate electors wasn’t something I’d come up with, and then the Trump campaign learned about it and then backed off. My understanding is that they planned to do this all along.”
Other controversial posts
On November 5, 2020, BadgerPundit shared, “He will push it all the way to early January, and if necessary, rely on Pence to count only electoral votes sent in by the Republican legislatures, or count no disputed electoral votes, and throw the election to the House, which will elect Trump. 80/20 in Trump’s favor.”
Counting on Pence
In another post from November 7, 2020, it said, “I think Pence, in counting electoral votes, could decide that the electoral votes of the legislature take priority.”
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