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Trump lawyers, aide hit with ten new felony charges in Wisconsin fake electors case

Donald Trump’s former attorney Jim Trulis, now facing a total of 11 felony charges for pushing a slate of alternative electors in Wisconsin, talks about election seucrity at a 2020 hearing. - (AP)

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who allegedly advised Trump in 2020 to falsely claim he won the state’s election as part of a “fake elector” scheme.

Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery charge in in the state when they were filed in June.

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