Chesebro’s clever lawyering might not have sat well with a jury.
former president Donald Trump with written advice as to how he might overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, knowing that no court had found evidence of fraud and that no state had withdrawn its delegates for Joe Biden. On Friday, after previously rejecting a deal, Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony for conspiracy to submit a false document. In addition to accepting three to five years of probation and payment of restitution and a fine, he agreed to cooperate in other cases.
Chesebro’s memos, dating from Nov. 18, 2020, through Dec. 24, 2020, would be devastating to any defense. Chesebro went from suggesting slates of alternate electors should be chosen in case a court threw out Biden electors The Powell and Chesebro pleas should have Trump quaking in his boots. “Trump’s illegitimate assault on the outcome of the 2020 election stood on two legs: the factual assertion that he had actually won and the legal claim that he had the right to use false electoral certificates to have Vice President Pence change the outcome in Congress on Jan. 6,”, counsel for the writers of the amicus brief described above, told me.
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