{"id":6710,"date":"2024-03-05T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/texts-reveal-trump-co-defendant-chesebros-role-in-fake-electors-plot\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:13:21","slug":"texts-reveal-trump-co-defendant-chesebros-role-in-fake-electors-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/texts-reveal-trump-co-defendant-chesebros-role-in-fake-electors-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro\u2019s role in \u2018fake electors\u2019 plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scheme was critical part of anti-democratic effort to overturn 2020 election and is now at center of two criminal cases against Trump<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/19\/kenneth-chesebro-trump-georgia-indictment-fake-electors\">Kenneth Chesebro<\/a> was eager to help.<\/p>\n<p>It was five days after the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden was projected to defeat Donald Trump and win Wisconsin\u2019s 10 electoral votes. Trump\u2019s campaign was requesting a recount. Chesebro, a little-known Harvard-educated lawyer, believed there were abnormalities in the election and emailed Jim Troupis, a friend and former Wisconsin judge, to offer to help with any of the campaign\u2019s legal efforts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/05\/kenneth-chesebro-text-email-fake-electors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheme was critical part of anti-democratic effort to overturn 2020 election and is now at center of two criminal cases against Trump Kenneth Chesebro was eager to help. It was five days after the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden was projected to defeat Donald Trump and win Wisconsin\u2019s 10 electoral votes. Trump\u2019s campaign was &#8230; <a title=\"Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro\u2019s role in \u2018fake electors\u2019 plot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/texts-reveal-trump-co-defendant-chesebros-role-in-fake-electors-plot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro\u2019s role in \u2018fake electors\u2019 plot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}