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Sam Levine in New York and Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin

Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro’s role in ‘fake electors’ plot

Kenneth Chesebro in Atlanta, Georgia, on 10 October 2023.
Kenneth Chesebro in Atlanta, Georgia, on 10 October 2023. Photograph: Alyssa Pointer/AP

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’s 10 electoral votes. Trump’s 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’s legal efforts.

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