‘It baffles me’: what drew a mild lawyer with a liberal past into Trump’s election plot?
‘It baffles me’: what drew a mild lawyer with a liberal past into Trump’s election plot?
Kenneth Chesebro – low-profile, bright, seemingly decent – is not your average Trump guy. So how did he become the architect of the election subversion scandal?
[Around 2014,] He invested in bitcoin and appears to have struck gold, telling Tribe that he made several million dollars. New-found wealth coincided with a dramatic volte-face in his political affiliations.
There it is. He got lucky, and mistook that for ability.
43Thank you - that makes sense.
5Context might also help. Bitcoin in 2014. What do you think the odds are he was recruited to help launder by the same folks propping Trump up?
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...and proximity to power. a love story as old as time.
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Guy becomes a millionaire and becomes a conservative. This isn't exactly the Nancy Drew mystery the title makes it out to be.
6This is the best summary I could come up with:
Instead he stands out for the opposite characteristics: his demure, scholarly demeanor that has left those who have known him utterly baffled by his eruption from a left-leaning attorney working in relative obscurity into a key figure in the glaring lights of a historic criminal prosecution.
Toobin, who has written about his old classmate for Graydon Carter’s digital journal, Air Mail, added that he did not seem to have the bearing to play such a lion-sized role in the Trump election subversion scandal.
He is name-checked by the special counsel 13 times under the codename “Co-Conspirator 5”, and though he has not been charged in the federal case, Chesebro is directly accused of devising and implementing the fake elector plot which lay at the center of Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
This time he has been charged with seven felony counts – one under the state’s racketeering law that targets organized crime groups, and six for acts of conspiracy relating to the fake electors and the pressure campaign to cajole vice-president Mike Pence into blocking Joe Biden’s victory on 6 January 2021.
“In our estimation, based on publicly available information, Kenneth Chesebro was the central mind behind the fake elector idea,” said Michael Teter, managing director of the 65 Project, a non-profit which seeks to hold lawyers involved in the alleged conspiracy accountable.
He represented plaintiffs suing big corporations, including Vietnam veterans taking on chemical companies, and acted as deputy special counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation into the Reagan administration’s secret sale of arms to Iran.
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