The New York Times is reporting that a former attorney that worked with Donald Trump is now cooperating with authorities in prosecutions of so-called “fake electors.”
Twenty-four of the alleged “fake” Trump electors are now facing criminal charges in three different states, and Kenneth Chesebro, one of the legal architects of the plan to deploy them, has surfaced as a witness in all of the cases.
Chesebro, a Harvard-educated lawyer, was instrumental in developing a strategy to have Republicans in battleground states declared as won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020 record themselves as alternate slates of electors backing Donald Trump. The proposal was part of an attempt to have Congress prevent or postpone the certification of Mr. Biden’s Electoral College win on January 6, 2021.
Earlier this week, a Nevada grand jury indicted six former Trump electors, including prominent Republican Party officials in the state, on accusations of fabricating and submitting false paperwork.
In August, an Atlanta grand jury indicted former President Donald J. Trump and 18 associates, including three alternate Georgia electors. In July, Michigan Attorney General Dana…
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