Details from Trump attorney offer 'new meat on the bones' in fake elector scheme: ex-federal prosecutor
As part of his plea deal with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme.
According to CNN, a newly released batch of leaked recordings shows the extremes that Trump went to in order to get fake Electoral College documents to Washington, D.C. before Congress' certification of the electoral vote count on January 6, 2021. Former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy discussed this development during a Friday morning, December 29 appearance on CNN, including the possible implications for special counsel Jack Smith's case.
Trump's efforts to stay in office despite losing the election to now-President Joe Biden are the focus of a case being prosecuted by Willis and a separate federal case being prosecuted by Jack Smith.
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Heaphy, who was the lead investigator for the January 6 Select Committee, told CNN's John Berman, "My guess is that Chesebro's information, which is new…. will factor into the special counsel's investigation. The fake elector plot is part of the evidence that will be presented by the special counsel that bears directly upon the president's — former president's — intent to disrupt the joint session."
Heaphy added that Chesebro likely "has information that will be useful to the special counsel."
The former federal prosecutor told Berman, "We knew the core story that the RNC, the Trump campaign, were together generating the submission of the fake electors — and this was part of an orchestrated multi-state plan to submit them to the joint session and to have them be considered by the vice president and the members on the floor. There's some new details; this is new sort of meat on the bones."
Heaphy continued, "Chesebro's account of the sort of frenetic scramble to get them to the Capitol on January 6 is new, but we knew that the RNC and the Trump campaign were coordinating it. And we knew that Vice President Pence ultimately refused to accept them."
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On December 28, CNN's Marshall Cohen said of the newly revealed recordings, "We've known bits and pieces of this story, but now, we're getting the full picture. And it comes from Ken Chesebro, who, in many ways, was the architect of the fake electors' plot."
During his conversation with Berman the following day, Heaphy explained how the January 6 Select Committee's work is relevant to Smith's case and noted, "We made the same determination — the Select Committee did — that the president's actions, not just on January 6, but leading up to it, incited insurrection."
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