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we're talking about kenneth chesebro. chesebro was the right-wing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. the scheme to appoint fake presidential electors that republican and legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the georgia election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. let's get more details from cnn's marshall cohen, who is breaking the story with kfile. marshall, tell us about these tweets and could chesebro be at legal risk for seemingly hiding them? >> jake, he could listen when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth and cnn's k team uncovered a secret twitter that cheseboro concealed from prosecutors in michigan. there are dozens of tweets from 2020 that undercut what he later told prosecutors about his role in this game now, we've also obtained the audio of chesebro's michigan interview. so you can hear it for yourself
we're talking about kenneth chesebro. chesebro was the right-wing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. the scheme to appoint fake presidential electors that republican and legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the georgia election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. let's get more details from...
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sunday at nine on cnn >> kenneth chesebro, the attorney who was a key figure in crafting the trump campaign's fake electors plot. i actually had a secret anonymous twitter account. some of his tweets from that account undermine statements he made to investigators looking into his role in this scheme to stop the counting of electoral votes on january 6 and hand the 2020 election to donald trump cnn's kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski joins us now andrew chesebro denied even having this burner account, right >> yeah, that's right. so chesebro is cooperating in multiple state investigations into that fake elector scheme. and when he was asked last year about whether he used social media, he said no, listen to this you have any social media presence, facebook, instagram. >> i mean, no. i for whatever. i mean for linear alternate ids that you're using for that kind of stuff. >> no. i mean, i don't i don't do any twitting so chesebro has portrayed himself as sort of a moderate middleman who >> claimed he was misled by more radical elements within the trump campaign about how they planned on usin
sunday at nine on cnn >> kenneth chesebro, the attorney who was a key figure in crafting the trump campaign's fake electors plot. i actually had a secret anonymous twitter account. some of his tweets from that account undermine statements he made to investigators looking into his role in this scheme to stop the counting of electoral votes on january 6 and hand the 2020 election to donald trump cnn's kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski joins us now andrew chesebro denied even having this...
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they gave kenneth chesebro a softball deal. they let him plead out to probation. and the reason they gave us well, he's cooperating know he is not he has not come clean. he is it failed cooperator. that's a blackeye for the georgia district attorney as well. >> what do you make of the contradiction in just the basic question, do you have social media where he seemed to say no? and then obviously now his lawyers are admitting that badger pundit was him yeah. >> marshall and the kfile team pulled the exact right piece of tape there. there's no ambiguity to that and to prosecutors credit, they don't just ask him where you tweeting. they asked him straight up. did you have some sort of alter ego or burner account? where were you tweeting under any other name? and he says, no, that's the lie. that's the contradiction, and that's where he could be in trouble today, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, this isn't the hush money case. asked for a gag order in the case. this week, donald trump's accused of falsifying business records to cover up the payments to stormy
they gave kenneth chesebro a softball deal. they let him plead out to probation. and the reason they gave us well, he's cooperating know he is not he has not come clean. he is it failed cooperator. that's a blackeye for the georgia district attorney as well. >> what do you make of the contradiction in just the basic question, do you have social media where he seemed to say no? and then obviously now his lawyers are admitting that badger pundit was him yeah. >> marshall and the kfile...
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i'm talking about kenneth chesebro. he's the lawyer who pleaded guilty last year in the georgia election subversion case. he then cooperated with prosecutors in georgia and in other states across the country to avoid more charges. but he concealed from those prosecutors the secret twitter account that our team discovered. and here's why this really matters. it shows that he was promoting a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he led on cnn's marshall cohen has been working on this martial. so she's chesebro, i should say, hid his secret account from prosecutors in michigan. and there are tapes to there are dana and look, when you cooperate you need to tell the truth and cnn's k >> team uncovered a secret twitter that chesebro concealed from prosecutors in michigan and dozens of tweets from 2020h them about his role in the scheme we also obtained the audio of chesebro's michigan interview. so you can hear it for yourself. when he was asked directly if he uses social media, he said no, take a listen. >> y
i'm talking about kenneth chesebro. he's the lawyer who pleaded guilty last year in the georgia election subversion case. he then cooperated with prosecutors in georgia and in other states across the country to avoid more charges. but he concealed from those prosecutors the secret twitter account that our team discovered. and here's why this really matters. it shows that he was promoting a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he led on cnn's marshall cohen has been working on...
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chesebro, wrote a memo. the memo advocated electors for trump should meet and cast votes for the then president while the legitimate electors were doing the same for biden >> they wanted to file these documents on the idea that in case donald trump were to prevail in litigation then they could submit those certificates to congress. the problem is that it's switched at a certain point from contingent electors to false electors >> state and federal judges dismissed more than 50 lawsuits presented by trump's team challenging the election instead of the trump electors voting as a contingency should court cases prevail. court cases became the cover to organize the electors it was a farce, it was just to keep the image up of the idea that this is being litigated in court and therefore its >> legitimate and it was not legitimate. they knew that there weren't going to want the campaign was central to this effort. >> because you >> can't pull this off without the apparatus of the political campaign four days before t
chesebro, wrote a memo. the memo advocated electors for trump should meet and cast votes for the then president while the legitimate electors were doing the same for biden >> they wanted to file these documents on the idea that in case donald trump were to prevail in litigation then they could submit those certificates to congress. the problem is that it's switched at a certain point from contingent electors to false electors >> state and federal judges dismissed more than 50...
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chesebro, an alleged architect of the trump fake electors plot. >> but here's the thing. >> here's what chesebro told investigators >> social media presence, facebook is i mean no >> and don't vote for biden. democrats in michigan, furious that the president over his handling of the war in gaza are telling other democrats do just that and take a stand as biden in for a rude awakening in what will be a must-win state in the general, was donald trump's race against time to find half $1 billion dollar bond. >> can you do it? >> president >> of a new york bond company is outfront with the answer >> erin burnett outfront brought to you by, etsy. great gifts made by real people etsy has it >> i'm starting to think this is bad idea we find a bag on his new gift mode. i see you don't meet them >> on etsy >> start your day with nature me. >> the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin supplement brand >> everyone sees >> meanwhile, at a vrbo, when other vacation rentals are just for likes, try one, you'll actually like want to know a secret more than just my armpit stink. that's why i use secr
chesebro, an alleged architect of the trump fake electors plot. >> but here's the thing. >> here's what chesebro told investigators >> social media presence, facebook is i mean no >> and don't vote for biden. democrats in michigan, furious that the president over his handling of the war in gaza are telling other democrats do just that and take a stand as biden in for a rude awakening in what will be a must-win state in the general, was donald trump's race against time to...
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chesebro.sebro is the mastermind of the fake electors scheme to overthrow the 2020 election. but last year, chesebro pleaded guilty in georgia has been cooperating with michigan and wisconsin investigators in hopes of avoiding more criminal charges. but turns out, chesebro might not escape the cheese-grater of justice. cnn found out that chesebro had a secret twitter account, and that's bad news for him, since while he was under oath, he told prosecutors this -- >> do you have any social media presence? facebook, instagram, twitter? >> no, i mean, uh, no. i, for whatever, i mean, before the -- >> any alternate ids that you're using for that kind of stuff? >> no. i mean, i don't i don't do any tweeting. >> stephen: that is the sound of someone desperately trying to remove the twitter app from their phone under the desk. "uh, twitter... i... uh, no.. humina humina... i mean, i don't -- damn. face id not recognized. uh, i'd like to phone a friend." chesebro's secret account was called "badgerpundi
chesebro.sebro is the mastermind of the fake electors scheme to overthrow the 2020 election. but last year, chesebro pleaded guilty in georgia has been cooperating with michigan and wisconsin investigators in hopes of avoiding more criminal charges. but turns out, chesebro might not escape the cheese-grater of justice. cnn found out that chesebro had a secret twitter account, and that's bad news for him, since while he was under oath, he told prosecutors this -- >> do you have any social...
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. >> i will say as i say good-bye to you guys, one of the people that they did pay was kenneth chesebro. he took a plea anyway. >>> coming up, why one gop lawmaker is talking about america becoming a, quote, post-constitution society. >>> also, what's the hottest new trend among ultra rush and what it says about our country's wealth gap. that's right, million dollar closets. >>> and by the end of the hour, elmo sparks serious conversations about america's mental health. >>> first, gop lawmakers busted for opposing legislation just because it might help joe biden. because it might help joe biden. meet the traveling trio. each helping to protect their money with chase. wooo! tools that help protect. alerts that help check. one bank that puts you in control. chase. make more of what's yours. >>> it doesn't get more brazen than this. republican senator chuck grassley threatening to block money for american families because, quote, passing a tax bill would make president biden look good. he's talking about a bipartisan bill that just passed the house to give money to low income families with
. >> i will say as i say good-bye to you guys, one of the people that they did pay was kenneth chesebro. he took a plea anyway. >>> coming up, why one gop lawmaker is talking about america becoming a, quote, post-constitution society. >>> also, what's the hottest new trend among ultra rush and what it says about our country's wealth gap. that's right, million dollar closets. >>> and by the end of the hour, elmo sparks serious conversations about america's mental...
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kenneth chesebro, a pro trump attorney, who was an alleged architect of the fake electors plan, showedcific advice from our lawyers that these documents were meaningless unless a court said they had meaning. >> you were deciding to sign this document as an elector and getting the other electors to sign this document based on a court challenge that you yourself don't believe has legitimacy. >> i wouldn't say, it doesn't have legitimacy. that's different than not personally agreeing with it. >> you personally don't believe that legitimate votes by wisconsin residents should be tossed out, and yet you are signing a document in support of a lawsuit, which is alleging just that. >> and if i didn't do that and the court did throw out those votes, it would have been solely my fault that trump wouldn't have won wisconsin. >> beautiful kids, andrew. good, good. i'm going to blame you, andrew, if they don't do it. >> can you imagine the repercussions on myself, my family, if it was me, andrew hitt, who prevented donald trump from winning wisconsin? >> you're saying you were scared? >> absolutely
kenneth chesebro, a pro trump attorney, who was an alleged architect of the fake electors plan, showedcific advice from our lawyers that these documents were meaningless unless a court said they had meaning. >> you were deciding to sign this document as an elector and getting the other electors to sign this document based on a court challenge that you yourself don't believe has legitimacy. >> i wouldn't say, it doesn't have legitimacy. that's different than not personally agreeing...
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chesebro, came up with numerous efforts to invalidate the electoral count act.volved having senator chuck grassley file a test case before the supreme court. what do you make of that lawyering? is that good lawyering? >> first, how are we only finding out about this now? to me, if january 6th is a multi hour event, and that is a lot different in contacts than multi day planned event. that goes much more strongly to allegations of insurrection, or other criminal allegations that are currently being made. i'm just astonished we're finding out about it now. what you just asked goes to the core of some of the attorney defendants defense. which is basically, hey, where lawyers. we were just musing, waxing on about some of the legal theories that just might work. and by the way, i won't completely denounced that biden said defense. it's available one, i don't think it'll be successful. but look to them to make that argument. some of them -- agreed to plead guilty. but to the extent there attorneys -- mostly in georgia, they are going to argue just legal of vice? that'
chesebro, came up with numerous efforts to invalidate the electoral count act.volved having senator chuck grassley file a test case before the supreme court. what do you make of that lawyering? is that good lawyering? >> first, how are we only finding out about this now? to me, if january 6th is a multi hour event, and that is a lot different in contacts than multi day planned event. that goes much more strongly to allegations of insurrection, or other criminal allegations that are...
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the account belonged to lawyer kenneth chesebro, was filled with damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the 2020 election subversion scheme, chesebro directly denied using twitter, which people call x now and appear to lie about having any alternate ids on social media when speaking to michigan investigators last year in this recorded interview you have any social media presence, facebook >> let me know i for whatever. i mean for linear alternate ids that you're using for that kind of stuff? >> no. i mean, i don't i don't do any twitting so a cnn kfile investigation linked chesebro to the secret account under the name badgerpundit. the link was made based on numerous matching details, including biographical information regarding his work, family, travels, and investments. chesebro's lawyers confirmed to cnn that the badgerpundit account did in fact belonged to chesebro his attorney described the account as chesebro is quote, random stream of consciousness that he used to spit ball theories about the election, but insisted it was separate from his work
the account belonged to lawyer kenneth chesebro, was filled with damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the 2020 election subversion scheme, chesebro directly denied using twitter, which people call x now and appear to lie about having any alternate ids on social media when speaking to michigan investigators last year in this recorded interview you have any social media presence, facebook >> let me know i for whatever. i mean for linear alternate ids...
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chesebro, an alleged architect of team trump's fake elector plot in 2020, concealed a twitter account. and it wasn't just concealing it. it was what was in it. it was filled with damning posts that directly under cut his testimony to prosecutors. here's just one example >> you have any social media presence >> facebook is in i mean no, i for whatever. i mean, before any yeah alternate ids that you're using for that kind of stuff? >> i, mean, i don't i don't do any twitting any alternate ids. >> nope. >> not even a pause. andrew kaczynski broke the story for kfile, and he's with me, so i mean, that's not even there's no there's no ambiguity in that the questioning even went to alternate identities and he said, no so he said, i don't do any bleeding. you found a lot a lot of tweeting. >> yeah, that's right, erin. so chesebro had an anonymous twitter account called bajaur, panda's that he used to promote a very aggressive strategy, far more aggressive than he shared with investigators. now he is cooperating in multiple different state investigation since he claims that he was misled by t
chesebro, an alleged architect of team trump's fake elector plot in 2020, concealed a twitter account. and it wasn't just concealing it. it was what was in it. it was filled with damning posts that directly under cut his testimony to prosecutors. here's just one example >> you have any social media presence >> facebook is in i mean no, i for whatever. i mean, before any yeah alternate ids that you're using for that kind of stuff? >> i, mean, i don't i don't do any twitting any...