Co-conspirator Ken Chesebro once "ran in liberal circles."

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Rolling Stone / August 14th, 2023

Chesebro played an instrumental role in the former president’s undemocratic push to remain in office. John Eastman, another alleged co-conspirator, is widely credited with masterminding the scheme to halt the certification of the Electoral College by submitting a slate of fake electors, but it was Chesebro who first proposed the idea in a Nov. 18 memo to Jim Troupis, a Trump attorney working in Wisconsin.

Chesebro sent another memo a few weeks later about expanding the strategy to other states. “I’ve mulled over how January might play out, and it seems feasible that the Trump campaign can prevent Biden from amassing 270 electoral votes on January 6, and force the Members of Congress, the media, and the American people to focus on the substantive evidence of illegal election and counting activities in the six contested states,” he wrote in the memo, which was detailed by The New York Times last week. Chesebro called the plot a “bold, controversial strategy” that the Supreme Court would “likely” reject.

Chesebro wasn’t finished. He sent another memo laying out ways to get around some of the complications with the scheme on Dec. 9. Then on Dec. 13, he sent a note to Rudy Giuliani, also an alleged co-conspirator, explaining how Mike Pence could halt the Electoral College certification, with allied senators refusing to count votes from states that submitted alternate slates of electors. Chesebro continued to correspond with Trump’s legal team and other allies about how to work the courts and what congressional Republicans needed to do ahead of Jan. 6 in order to give the plan a chance.

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Chesebro’s eagerness to insert himself into a scheme to subvert the democratic process in order to keep Donald Trump in the White House is remarkable considering his background. He ran in liberal circles in law school, donated to Democrats, and praised Barack Obama before he became a senator. He even worked on the team representing Al Gore in the Supreme Court following the 2000 election. Chesebro got really into cryptocurrency in the 2010s, however, sparking a conservative turn, as Air Mail detailed in a recent profile. He was representing top Republican senators by the end of the decade, and donated the maximum amount to Trump’s 2020 campaign before working to reverse the result of the election.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ken-chesebro-trump-ally-coup-plot-1234806685/

Interesting ... which is why I posted this. Why the flip to the dark side? Why work for TFG?

Eh ... just lock him up.

[Recycle_Guru]

1. sketchy description "running on liberal circles"

I call bullshit

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2. Working on behalf of Al Gore is bullshit?

Though, to address your point, he could have just been following the money.

And I'd like to think it was the dark money that flipped him.

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3. "six contested states"? These cheaters worked from that assumption

They were the closest states in terms of margin of victory for Joe Biden. But the only ones contesting were the Trump campaign. They really believed their own shit. Once the votes had been counted, recounted, litigated, it was all over. They were sucking on their own delusions.

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4. Something, no doubt, convinced him he was downtrodden.

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5. There's a difference between "running in liberal circles" and...

...having liberal principles. The latter has toots that keep you grounded. The former can be shallow and a lot easier to flip; it's the stuff that makes "a conservative is a liberal who got mugged" possible.

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6. On the other hand, some with deep roots in ideology can swing just as far in the opposite direction

Some people are ‘addicted’ to extreme ideologies, regardless of which direction they’re headed.

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7. Not so much on the other hand, since their roots are in the extremism, not the principles

It's the ideology that serves as a vehicle for their extremism, not the other way around.

Go-to example: David Horowitz

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8. Also Michael Savage

The savage Wiener