Reminder: Few of these people, including tRUMP, have faced repercussions for their crimes. Most are stalling, firing lawyers, delaying any trials and appealing... awaiting the second coming of their savior so he can pardon them. Meanwhile the plans to screw with the 2024 election are also well under way and these people remain free and able to help do it.
UPDATES are in comments
Main Post: TPM unravels the Ken Chesebro plot; stochastic terrorism
Update 1: More on Ken Chesebro
Update 2: Wisconsin caves; here is the fake elector settlement
Update 3: Arizona unseals indictment of conspirators; Michigan and Nevada name indicted conspirators
Update 4: List of those charged in Arizona; Wisconsin case continues; info on settled cases in New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
Update 5: 12 people were arraigned in Arizona and 6 more will be arraigned.
Update 6: Wisconsin back on the map with new indictments.
Update 7: Tina Peters goes to trial.
Update 7.1: Tina Peters goes to trial; the evidence is all presented and prosecution rests.
Update 7.2: Verdict: Colorado jury found Tina Peters guilty of 7 counts for election computer system breach.
Update 7.3: Sentencing:Election conspiracist Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years in prison by Colorado judge
The Georgia Election Interference Case is here: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/update-6-georgia-election-interference-case
To learn more about the trials, see: The LOSER45 Indictments / Trials Thus Far... https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/update-38-the-loser45-indictments-trials-thus-far
Lawyers Pushed False Claims in 'Fraudit' Election Reports https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/indicted-lawyer-pushed-false-claims-for-arizona-fraudit-report-texts-reveal
The Lawyers...The Liars.. The Fraudsters
Be sure to read these stories as they show that we know only the bare bones about the insurrection/Coup plot that was planned months for January 6. Imagine what we would know had the Secret Service not deleted all of their January 6 convos... and the planners of the many rallies held encircling the Capitol had not used burners... and AG Garland had done his job and started investigations immediately after Jan 6.
Should you like to read about the other key figures in this plot, John Eastman, a former law school prof and Dean and his involvement/disbarment, HOS has written extensively on the main page as well as here: https://fafochronicles.com/?s=eastman Although still in review, hopefully there will be action in April... (Update: His law licenses were temporarily suspended in California and DC) He has plead not guilty in both Arizona and Georgia. https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/the-final-case/
The Legal Coup
New Documents Reveal How Trump Lawyers Sought ‘Chaos’ to Force SCOTUS, or Whoever Else, to Anoint Trump
[Although titled ‘legal coup,’ this was the tRUMP lawyers attempt to steal the election via “legal” finagling … and in this case it is written only about Chesebro’s emails and documents and his contacts. Eastman’s similar attempt is a different case, tried separately, but not entirely, being they held many meetings to discuss how tRUMP would be reinstated illegally in spite of the vote! The 2000 election on steroids. [Chesebro and Sidney Powell have entered guilty pleas which requires their cooperation ]
“A trove of documents obtained by TPM 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 Jan. 6.
Within weeks of Trump denouncing the election itself and claiming that he had won, Chesebro and Trump campaign attorneys around him began to explore more exotic legal theories in which endless chaos in Congress would prove that the legislature could not certify a winner. That stalemate, they theorized, would force the Supreme Court to act.”
Two Weeks of Chaos
Documents Obtained by TPM Show Trump Lawyers’ Plan To Make Jan. 6 Last For Days On End
“Congress could halt the certification and bring forth endless claims of election fraud in swing states, a process that, according to the documents, Chesebro hoped would create a spectacle, revealing the GOP-friendly Supreme Court as the only rational, functioning actor left standing.
It was a Rube Goldberg device of a plan, and one that sought to use chaos as the invisible force drawing the high court — and whoever else the Trump campaign attorneys believed could resolve the election — into the mess. The hours of violence that ultimately emerged on Jan. 6 as Congress met to certify Biden’s win offer a glimpse of the potential consequences that might have accompanied weeks of delay in formalizing a winner. But for a Trump campaign desperate for a win, extending Jan. 6 to Jan. 20 would allow the high court to serve as a kind of deus ex machina as Congress — and the country — remained mired in strife over the failure to complete the legal formalities around Joe Biden’s election…”
“With time running out in the days before Jan. 20, “the state legislatures would have to appoint electors if they wanted to be counted and avoid the election being thrown to the House,” Chesebro wrote, adding, “if Nancy then refused to hold a vote, Senate would reelect Pence Vice President, and he would become acting president on Jan 20.”
Jan 4…"I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. I have to tell you ... of course if he doesn't come through, I don't like him quite as much." – tRUMP
The Ideas Man
How Chesebro’s Most Radical Theories Entered Trump Campaign Planning for Pence and Jan. 6.
“Chesebro volunteered the idea that Pence could throw a wrench in this process by declining to open Biden votes from swing states, instead using the fake electoral slates that Chesebro convened as a reason to not open any votes from those states. He brought this idea to an eager Trump campaign weeks ahead of the climactic series of meetings before Jan. 6 where Eastman and Trump sought to pressure Pence into stoking as much chaos as possible. The possibility that Pence might decline to open Biden votes at all was an option that Chesebro described as a “fairly boss move.”
The documents, combined with a 4.5 hour interview that Chesebro gave to Michigan prosecutors last year reviewed by TPM, also reveal for the first time that the group received an early “no” from Pence’s camp. Chesebro told prosecutors that he walked away from a call with a legal adviser to Pence one month before Jan. 6 with the distinct impression that Pence would not diverge from a single letter of the Electoral Count Act.”
One of the Tweets which has since been erased:
tRUMP's minions at all levels have insisted that Jan 6 was not an Insurrection. tRUMP's lawyers argued the same , in front of SCOTUS last week. How dare they.
tRUMP's coded message: "You're my last hope ..."
QAnon Rep Looney Luna was also on Donald win... where the Jan 6 insurrection and building of gallows was plotted, as most of these folks are MAGA & QAnon
She has since written a children's book about the tRUMP coup, as did Kash Patel.
One person's shot of his gear and guns to take to DC... from archived TheDonald. Win
It is just a LARP... How did he know police and military would stand down? (As some Capitol Police not in riot gear were politely letting some in and not pushing them out until much, much later. Not just Sicknick was MAGA) Fortunately, the DC police and good Capitol Police were there to stop some of them from rushing through and stealing the elector vote boxes and perhaps carrying through with this shit.
August 14, 2021 “Why wasn't Jan 6 Ellipse rally declared "National Security Event" in advance? Per new audit, US Dept of Homeland Security thought DC government had to do it. DC gov said feds had to do it. US Capitol Police & Park Service said it's not their job.” https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1426530544997650432
Here they remind “carpenters” to arrive early to build the gallows.
Gosh, what can one interpret from this map that was added in Dec ... and then a few times more
Jacob Lewis, California, Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. *** Proof of premeditated Federal crime, conspiracy and sedition: Lewis, owner of a fitness business called The Gym, had a conversation with a friend back in December, suggesting the friend "watch what happens to the Capitol on the 6th.” https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1361031/download
This looks pretty prepared and plotty to me...
This was added along with instructions on how to use the encrypted server and join your state's "Donald's army."
Meanwhile... the beat goes on...
Also, JoJo is a Dem. Her joke was not only prescient, but it was added to TheDonald. win ...
Update 7.3
Sentencing: Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years in prison
by Colorado judge
HOLY HELL!
This is a first! She must have sorely pissed off the judge or made new election threats because no one else has been treated as she has.
Tina is a RWNJ hero...
As she has been relentless in her pursuit if false evidence. The judge was "impressed." I added it because the judge dressed her down... a LOT!! It is remarkable...but my favourite part is where her lawyer tries to file a stay right after sentencing. DENIED!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/trump-election-conspiracist-tina-peters-sentenced.html
Sorry cannot embed...
Update 7.2:
Verdict: Colorado jury found Tina Peters guilty of 7 counts
for election computer system breach.
Found guilty of 7 of the 10 charges.
including four felonies, in her election interference trial.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/tina-peters-trial-colorado-election-security/73-1c01e5e7-3565-4b26-9d82-1331802e2dc2?ref=exit-recirc
Peters sentencing is set for Oct. 3 at 9:30 a.m. She is eligible for probation '[bleahhh] but could face a lengthy prison sentence.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/12/tina-peters-verdict/
Update 7.1:
Tina Peters goes to trial
Tina Peters, the Prosecution rests
After hearing damning evidence of having given a turned in ID to a self-described expert to copy a drive, having security cameras covering the storage room for voting equipment were turned off and using burner phones to communicate, the defense rested. After having passed on passwords and data to QAnon POS Ron Watkins, a self-described computer expert who made porn and even child porn sites when he was in the Philippines with his QAnon POS dad, Ron posted it online…
Former employees who took pleas deals testified to Peters’ statements after she learned passwords/images/data were online: “‘I’m f—ed,’” she said. [Yes, you are]
‘When the prosecution rested its case, the defense immediately made a motion for judgment of acquittal. 21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett responded by denying the motion, announcing “Considering all of the forgoing evidence and in light of the charges that have been filed, the court does conclude the people have established sufficient evidence in both quantity and quality that proves her guilt beyond the reason of doubt.”
After being charged with 3 felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant; 3 felony counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and 1 felony count of identity theft, the judge better give her jail time as a deterrence because who knows how many were also doing this and were not caught? Who knows how many are preparing to do the same or worse to get tRUMP elected again?
This may be her first felony offenses, but not her first offense, so she had better not be let off scot-free!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/9/2261788/-Stop-the-Steal-trial-The-Prosecution-Rests
Update 7:
Tina Peters goes to trial
Peters denies any wrong doing, calling it a political witch hunt…even though she brought a non credentialed person into a private meeting where the passwords were visible and vopied confidentialelection material. Her house was raided the morning she claimed victimhood on Mike Lindell’s own fraudulent pillow and tRUMP sale/“symposium.”
Body cam footage of Mesa Clerk Tina Peters' arrest, in which she tried to KICK the arresting officer. She was found not guilty of obstructing officers even though she fought them for a very long time... then said they broke her wrist but refused an ambulance. Note that after being bonded out, she lost her bond because she left the state for a Nevada symposium and dared to run for office in 2022... That is what happens when you let criminals loose with no punishment to repeat crimes. The woman has gall!
Peters has since been convicted of obstruction of government operations in her first trial, and lying to the court/contempt in her second trial for having taped a court proceeding illegally and then lying that she had not. https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/peters-guilty-on-obstruction-charge-not-guilty-on-arrest-charge/article_e8b3fae4-b9da-11ed-a156-fb9448a20e19.html
This 3rd rial for Tina Peters, election-denying former Mesa County clerk who illegally made copies of election hard drives, was postponed from last Sept and this February due to her stalling, firing lawyers and COVID,but now begins with jury selection. Peters’ chief deputy, Belinda Knisley and former elections manager Sandra Brown are required as part of their guilty plea deals to testify against Peters.
Judge Matthew Barrett has barred Peters from portraying herself as a RW hero and whistleblower and also ruled the out trying to make the case about election integrity or Dominion. She is charged with 3 counts of attempting to influence a public servant, 2 counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, 1 count of identity theft and 1 count of criminal impersonation. She also faces misdemeanor charges of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with requirements of the secretary of state.
As with all of the trials, the slow walking has ensured a lot of people to forget it even happened… I do hope they were able to find some sane people in Colorado to convict her. https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/court-narrows-down-jury-pool-for-tina-peters/article_24e0fdae-4eb9-11ef-b093-773841e41cb3.html
MyPillow Lindel and former CEO Overstock Patrick Byrne are paying her bills, along with several fan accounts who have made her a MAGA hero. Here is Byrne threatening law enforcement:
Byrne repeated his threats several times.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/patrick-byrne-tina-peters-threats/
And gee, I wonder where tRUMP is getting his misinformation on Venezuela from? Surely not Byrne, who engaged in an affair with Maria Butina, the infamous Russian agent who courted most of the GOP. . .
Remember also that Patrick Byrne, Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn and Giuliani barged into the Oval Office to try to get tRUMP to use the National Guard to seize voting machines.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572
UPDATE 6
The Wisconsin Attorney General has indicted for forgery, former Trump attorneys Ken Chesebro and Jim Troupis, and the head of Trump’s Election Day ground game, Mike Roman arising out of their leadership roles with Trump in the fake elector scheme. Michael Popok breaks it all down…’
Or read https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-fake-electors-trump-2020-charges-77d00919fc8d8e07438076610090a9b1
UPDATE 5
So many of the Jan 6 insurrectionists say they will gladly and enthusiastically do it again. I will highlight one in a separate post monetarily...
Meanwhile...
Eleven, and Giuliani, arraigned in fake electors case
The fake electors were finally indicted by a Grand Jury in April and arraigned 2 days ago with multiple charges of charges of fraud, forgery, and conspiracy. 6 more of those involved will be arraigned in June. Giuliani still has to appear in court within the next 30 days for booking and to post a $10k bond. Instead of using a previous mugshot, I took some liberties...
Protestors called the pieces shit heroes who were expressing their first amendment rights... WTAF? More about the defendants and and more pictures are here: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/21/fake-electors-trump-aides-to-enter-pleas-in-maricopa-county-court/73675956007/
The Ward's lawyer says that the indictment charges were not clear enough. The 58 page indictment laying out the charges is here: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/20/fake-electors-unredacted-indictment-released-by-arizona-attorney-generals-office/73771404007/
Nothing says "election integrity" like an election denier.
Christina Bobb is also the tRUMP lawyer who conspired with Corcoran to lie to the FBI that all of the classified documents at Maralago were returned... and signed a document saying it was so. In 2021, she was was a host and "reporter" on the fascistic OANN network. Bobb worked in the past for the Dept of Homeland security and was also in the Willard room in DC helping plan the coup.
UPDATE 4
List of those charged in Arizona
I did not have the full list for update 4. WaPo thankfully has done the legwork, plus info on the other cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges/
Wisconsin: Ongoing investigation
'Investigators for state Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) have interviewed Chesebro as a possible witness as part of an ongoing probe. Other details about the investigation have not been made public. Separately, Chesebro, Trump attorney James Troupis and the 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as electors recently settled a lawsuit brought by two of the state’s legitimate electors. As part of the deals, they publicly released records about their efforts and withdrew their false filings from the National Archives. In addition, those who acted as electors agreed not to do so again this year or any time Trump is on the ballot.'
New Mexico: No charges filed
'State Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) in January announced that the five Republicans who met as electors in New Mexico were not subject to prosecution under state law. The Republicans in New Mexico included wording in their paperwork saying their electoral votes should be counted only if they were found to be legitimate electors.'
Pennsylvania: No charges filed
'State investigators determined in early 2022 that Republicans in Pennsylvania probably did not violate the law because they included a caveat in their paperwork saying their electoral votes were to be counted only if a court found they were legitimate electors. The review of the matter was overseen by Democrat Josh Shapiro, who was attorney general at the time and is now governor.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/trump-electors-state-investigations-indictments/
UPDATE 3
Arizona Conspirators
April 23, 2024: Arizona AG Kris Mayes full statement on the indictment unsealed today: “I will not allow American democracy to be undermined.” All 11 fake electors were charged in the indictments with felony counts of fraud, forgery and conspiracy. One is JAKE HOFFMAN, an Arizona state senator tRUMP, Giuliani and Meadows were named as un-indicted Co-conspirators, along with several others.
Michigan Conspirators
Dec. 14, 2020: tRUMP's campaign staff helped coordinate the Republicans' meeting where the certificate was signed .
Dec. 2020: Someone submitted the false certificate to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives even though Biden's win had been certified by the Board of State Canvassers.
February 2023: In a gearing, Kahla Crino, an assistant AG, described submitting hake documents claiming tRUMP won as a "multi-state criminal conspiracy that was absolutely linked" to tRUMP's campaign.
July 2023: Michigan AG Nessel charged all 16 Republican electors with eight felonies each, including forgery and conspiracy to commit election law forgery. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/18/michigan-donald-trump-fake-electors-charged-felonies-attorney-general-dana-nessel/70427042007/
Dec 2023: tRUMP, 'I Was Doing my Dooty' and claimed 'absolute immunity' from prosecution for his official acts as President.
Michigan Names Co-conspirators
April 2024: Yesterday, tRUMP, Giuliani and Meadows were named as un-indicted Co-conspirators, as well as: Michigan Republican Chair Laura Cox, former state House Speaker Tom Leonard, his wife, Jenell Leonard, and Stu Sandler, a GOP consultant and legal adviser to Cox, Chris Velasco, who worked for Trump's campaign in Michigan. Not surprisingly, Mike Roman, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro are also on the list. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/donald-trump-unindicted-co-conspirator-in-false-electors-plot-michigan-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows/73420368007/
Nevada Conspirators
December 2023: Nevada State's AG, Aaron Ford, charged the fake electors with two felonies. A Nevada grand jury indicted the six Republicans on felony charges of offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument, the fake election certificates. They have pleaded not guilty and their trial date has been set for after the election, January 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/nevada-electors-fake-charged-election-2020
UPDATE 2
Wisconsin fake elector settlement offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers
As part of their agreements, Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis turned over more than 1,400 pages of documents, emails and text messages, along with photos and video.
Those documents settled the civil suit, but opened a can of worms for the 2 men... and undermines Chesebros testimony in discovery and to a Grand Jury that he had nothing to so with the planning or implementation ... and that it was all just in speculation and preparation of a different vote outcome in courts. *When in fact it was to create a “cloud of confusion”
UPDATE 1
CNN has found an old tweet by Chesebro that SHOULD put him back in hot water and eliminate his plea agreement. He lied about not having a Twitter account. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/uploads/20240225-vis_001_02232023.mp3
That is all they get credit for though. Why? Because they are assholes.
I hate CNN as it is talking heads, repetition, drama and clickbait. Here they are taking credit for "uncovering" Chesebros Twatter account.
Well the investigative journalist from TPM discovered it as I added this in my post above
Chesebros lawyer says although yes, that Twatter account was indeed him, but it was not his lawyer persona; it was his "goofball" persona. What the contention in court will be is that those "goofy" tweets were sent to other election deniers plotting, AKA conspiring, as to how to steal the 2020 election. These RW lawyers surely are assholes. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030926/https:/twitter.com/BadgerPundit/status/1326723547373465601
That he erased his social media presence should also be considered obstruction of justice. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8O632L_lHRYJE8wA9RfExQ
https://twitter.com/BadgerPundit.
His blog was erased, but some of his older stuff was captured by the Wayback machine... https://web.archive.org/web/20201125020601/https://thebadger14.wordpress.com/about-2/
Here's a synopsis on Daily Kos on what that should mean. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/26/2225930/-Feds-Discover-Chesebro-s-Secret-Twitter-Account-proving-him-a-Perjurer
As always, there are a few zingers from the DK peanut section!
And to avoid CNN, there is a video here that show Chesebro following Alex Jones around the Capitol on January 6. *Neither went in... nor harmed anything or any one. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/18/2188059/-Georgia-Co-Conspirator-5-a-k-a-Cheseboro-Stormed-the-Capitol-with-Alex-Jones-on-Jan-6