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☆ Newly revealed memo details fake elector plot to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Dec. 6, 2020, memo was authored by Kenneth Chesebro, a pro-Trump attorney identified by news outlets as one of six unnamed co-conspirators in Trump's latest indictment. The Dec. 6 memo proposed that groups of "electors" in six key states that Biden won should meet and cast fake votes for Trump. Those votes would then be packaged up to resemble real electoral votes and sent to Washington. According to Chesebro's plan, then-Vice President Mike Pence could then count the Trump votes instead of the real electoral votes during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Pence ultimately refused to reject legitimate electoral votes for Biden, resisting pressure from Trump and his allies.

Persons: Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Joe Biden, Trump, Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis, Chesebro, Biden, Mike Pence, Pence, Jack Smith's Organizations: Windham High School, Trump, The New York Times, CNBC, U.S, Supreme, Democrats, U.S . Capitol, Times Locations: Windham , New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Washington, Troupis

☆ The indictment says Trump had six co-conspirators in his efforts to retain power.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump mentions — but does not identify by name — six co-conspirators who prosecutors say worked with him in seeking to overturn the 2020 election. It is not clear why the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, decided to seek only Mr. Trump’s indictment for now, though it is possible that some of the co-conspirators could still face charges in the weeks ahead. Here is how the indictment describes those conspirators. The identities of the co-conspirators could not immediately be determined, but the descriptions of them appear to match up with a number of people who were central to the investigation into election tampering conducted by prosecutors working for Mr. Smith. Among those people central to the inquiry were Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer who oversaw Mr. Trump’s attempts to claim the election was marred by widespread fraud; John Eastman, a law professor who provided the legal basis to overturn the election by manipulating the count of electors to the Electoral College; Sidney Powell, a lawyer who pushed Mr. Trump to use the military to seize voting machines and rerun the election; Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official at the time; and Kenneth Chesebro and James Troupis, lawyers who helped flesh out the plan to use fake electors pledged to Mr. Trump in states that were won by President Biden.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Trump’s, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis, Biden Organizations: Mr, Electoral College, Justice Department

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in key presidential swing states for any and all communications involving former President Donald Trump, his campaign and a series of aides and allies who assisted in his effort to overturn the 2020 election. A spokesperson for Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson confirmed that Smith’s office had sent a subpoena. Scott McDonnell, the Dane County clerk, confirmed to NBC News that his county had received a virtually identical subpoena as Milwaukee. An Arizona elections official confirmed that Maricopa County had received such a subpoena this month with similar demands for those communications. "Maricopa County has received a subpoena and will comply," Fields Moseley, a county spokesperson, said.

☆ Democrats hit Sen. Ron Johnson on Jan. 6 remarks in new Wisconsin Senate ad
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Democrats are ramping up their attacks on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin over his remarks downplaying the Jan. 6 riot with a new TV ad in the homestretch of the pivotal Senate race. The ad is paid for by the Senate Majority PAC — the Democrats’ main Senate super PAC — and End Citizens United, another political action committee. It’s also the first time Democrats have run a TV ad in the race highlighting Johnson’s remarks about the attack on the Capitol. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., at a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on Sept. 21. And yet you refused to investigate the deadly attack on our Capitol.”A digital ad earlier in the campaign also drew attention to Jan. 6.

☆ Johnson's campaign is paying the law firm of a Trump attorney allegedly connected to Jan. 6 fake elector plot
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The records show he made regular payments, totaling at least $30,000 in payments this year, to another law firm, Wiley Rein, for legal consulting. Other numbers publicly listed for Troupis Law Office appear disconnected or are inoperable. Phone, email and text messages left with Johnson’s campaign were not immediately returned. On May 11, Chesebro donated $5,800 to Johnson’s campaign, the maximum amount an individual can contribute during the primary, under FEC rules. That lawsuit alleges that Troupis was a link between the Trump campaign and the fake electors.

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