That’s what Kenneth Chesebro is telling Michigan prosecutors.
Person to person with Donald Trump on December 16, 2020, former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis told the defeated President that Wisconsin’s 10 electors were irretrievably lost, there was no way to win.
That’s what fellow Wisconsin lawyer Kenneth Chesebro is telling criminal investigation into Michigan’s false electors scheme. CNN says it has obtained exclusive audio of that interview. The small delegation of lawyers meeting with Trump in the Oval Office were instructed: Don’t get Trump’s hopes up about overturning the election. CNN reports:
One attorney, Jim Troupis, toed the line. He’d just finished leading Trump’s failed election challenge in Wisconsin, and bluntly told the president it was over in that state. …
“It’s clear that Troupis personally, told the President there was zero hope for Wisconsin,” Chesebro recalled to the Michigan prosecutors. “Part of this message, I think, (was) crafted to try to get him to concede or just you know, give up this long shot challenge.”
But when the conversation shifted to Arizona, Chesebro … told Trump he could still win – and explained how the “alternate electors” he helped assemble in Arizona and six other states gave Trump an opening to continue contesting the election until Congress certified the results on January 6, 2021.
— “Trump briefed on fake electors in Oval Office photo op”
The breach angered Reince Preibus, who had organized the meeting in the Oval Office, was Trump’s first chief of staff and had been chairman of the Wisconsin GOP.
“As often happened, Trump heard what he wanted to, ignoring Troupis and embracing Chesebro’s theories.”
Taking one for the team?
Blaska Policy Werkes wonders if Chesebro is throwing himself under the bus in order to save others. He’s already taken a plea deal in Fani Willis’s broad dragnet in Georgia. Because fake electors had already met on December 14 — two days before the Oval Office meeting — in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Troupis, it is alleged, sought to convey Wisconsin’s Republican electors to Vice President Mike Pence. The WI Supreme Court, earlier that December 14, ruled 4 to 3 against Trump’s appeal.
Jack Smith’s federal prosecution alleges that the fake elector scheme began in Wisconsin. It was Chesebro who, apparently, devised the scenario in a memorandum dated 11-18-20. Chesebro cited Hawaii’s experience in the 1960 election. Before courts ruled on December 28 that Kennedy had won, Hawaii’s governor had certified Nixon’s electoral count. Fortunately, Chesebro wrote, Democrat(ic) electors also voted the same day as the Republican electors. Congress did not get Hawaii’s Kennedy electors until the very morning of their certification (which was also January 6).
Troupis and Chesebro remain respondents in a civil case brought by liberal interest groups. The lawsuit against the“fake electors” themselves was settled when the 10 agreed to state that Trump lost Wisconsin.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: senses that the plot is only thickening.
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So; the “fake electors” agreed that Biden won the state. Ten electors said tRump lost. And now you wonder why the lawsuit. Are you kidding me? Why are we still talking about this at this date? Everyone knows it was a scam and these fools should be in jail.
“Troupis and Chesebro are respondents in a civil case brought by liberal interests.” NO SH3T DAVE> These pukes have lied for years and should be struck down in court. If it was the gop they would be loosing their sh%t on faux news.
Hitt now says he was “tricked” in signing his name. Rudy G. just got wacked for 148 MILLION DOLLARS. I guess his being “tricked” defense didn’t work.
Troupis should give Al Gore a call.