LANSING, Mich. — An attorney updated Donald Trump's advisers on plans to submit a false certificate claiming the then-president won Michigan's election and sent documents to help with the effort to a state GOP official, according to emails obtained by The Detroit News.
The Dec. 11, 2020, messages from Massachusetts lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to Bernard Kerik, whom Trump's lawyers tapped to probe voter fraud claims, are the clearest indication yet that Trump supporters working to contest the results nationally were directly involved in Michigan's "alternate" electors certificate.
They also show that officials tied to Trump were aware of the plans for Michigan, and two Republican sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the electors idea was being pushed by the Trump campaign. The president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was copied on Chesebro's emails. In one email, Chesebro thanked Kerik for participating in a phone call.
