It’s no secret that Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run amounts to little more than his desperate, last-ditch attempt to outrun the ever-growing mountain of legal troubles hanging over his head. The one-term, twice-impeached, scandal-plagued former president currently has an astounding and unprecedented 91 criminal indictments hanging over his head, with no end in sight — and that’s not even taking into consideration the additional lawsuits, investigations, and civil trials he continues to face, one of which formally labeled him a bonafide rapist and cost him a whopping $83.3 million.
But no matter how hard he runs, Donald’s legal troubles are running faster and it’s all beginning to catch up with the former president.
Among the criminal prosecutions lodged against the former president, two of them are directly connected to Donald Trump’s unhinged and unlawful attempts to overthrow the 2020 United States presidential election and keep himself in power, despite having lost free and fair to Joe Biden. Those investigations are headed by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the State of Georgia.
In the Georgia case, specifically, Trump has been co-indicted alongside several of his now-former attorneys who conspired with him to falsely claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him via widespread fraud across the nation and subsequently worked to put a scheme into action to steal the election back into his favor. These co-conspirator attorneys include the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell.
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As it stands, several of these attorneys (or former attorneys) have already flipped on the former president in an attempt to save themselves a prison sentence — including Ellis, Powell, and most recently, Chesebro.
Chesebro has agreed to turn on Donald Trump and work with the Fulton County DA’s office in exchange for skirting prison for himself. However, there was a time in the not-to-distant past when Chesebro was vehemently determined to keep Trump in the White House, no matter the cost.
As part of his cooperation with prosecutors, Chesebro turned over a “trove” of damning documents that Talking Points Memo has since obtained.
TPM reporter Josh Kovensky reported on this new development that has now uncovered and thoroughly detailed the plot outlined by Donald’s then-legal team, highlighting the attorneys’ roles in the scheme to keep Donald Trump in power at all costs.
In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build a legal pathway by which Donald Trump could stay in power, having lost the election,” Kovensky explains.
“We’ve known about the outcome of their work for three years now: how it led to the violence of January 6, and fed the dream of Trump’s supporters that he might continue to serve after January 20, 2021. But TPM can now reveal the ways in which their theorizing, in early stages, went even further than previously known, imagining a January 6 that lasted for not hours but days, an intervention by Supreme Court justices that they presumed to be loyal to President Trump, and a vice president who upended his constitutional duties, allowing the U.S. to descend into chaos.”
According to Kovensky, this “trove of documents… details many of the conversations among Trump campaign lawyers, and, in particular, the theories offered by Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who worked with the campaign in the months leading up to January 6.”
“Chesebro, an appellate lawyer, provided a legal framework in which, he contended, Trump could still win — or at least cause enough confusion and chaos that the conservative Supreme Court would have to get involved in picking the president,” the TPM report continues.
“His plan envisioned several gambits which have now become familiar building blocks of the legal portion of the coup attempt, and the basis for criminal charges across the country: creating slates of fake electors, having Mike Pence refuse to count Biden’s electoral votes on January 6, and ultimately tossing the whole issue to the High Court.”
Kovensky goes on to note that “TPM obtained the trove of documents after Ken Chesebro supplied e-mails, texts, and memos from his time with the Trump campaign to Michigan prosecutors in Attorney General Dana Nessel (D)’s office, which has been investigating the fake electors scheme.”
However, as he goes on to further point out, “the thousands of e-mails, memos, and texts only represent what Chesebro experienced directly and what he chose to share.”
This means that, despite how damning Chesebro’s documents are, they don’t amount to the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the overall efforts of Trump’s lawyers to overturn the election for their client.
The records are not comprehensive of the Trump campaign’s entire effort to reverse the President’s loss,” Kovensky explains. “They reflect what Chesebro provided as he sought to avoid further prosecution, and what reached TPM.”
You can read Kovensky’s full, deep-dive report with Talking Points Memo here.
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