Michigan Prosecution Uncovers New Evidence from Chesebro’s Social Media Accounts as Election Subversion Investigations Continue

Google and X (formerly Twitter) recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors as part of their investigation into the 2020 election subversion probe. The search warrants obtained by authorities after CNN exposed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake elector scheme, gave investigators access to new emails and private direct messages on Twitter from Chesebro’s account. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is still gathering information nine months after charging state’s fake electors with forgery and other crimes for signing certificates falsely claiming Donald Trump won the election in 2020, according to a top member of her team who testified last week that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Michigan’s investigation follows similar probes into fake electors schemes in Arizona and other states. Chesebro has not been charged in Michigan but pleaded guilty in Georgia’s election interference probe. The direct messages obtained by CNN reveal how Chesebro, while advising Trump campaign on the fake elector plot, was also trying to garner friendly news coverage from conservative radio hosts and pro-Trump pundits. He shared what appeared to be unsolicited guidance with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, suggesting ways for him to frame his site’s coverage of the January 6 certification proceeding in Congress that aligned with Chesebro’s long shot theories about how to subvert Electoral College process. In December 2020, Chesebro also made similar offers to several other conservative political figures including Wisconsin-based radio host Vicki McKenna and her husband who informed him she already had accommodations booked in DC. The documents obtained by CNN show that Chesebro reached out privately to various Wisconsin legal scholars and pundits, most of whom were ignored while a few others sparred with Cheseboro on public Twitter posts before responding dismissively like Daniel Rodriguez from Northwestern University’s law school who is now its professor. When contacted by CNN for comment regarding the exchange between him and Chesebro in December 2020, Rodriguez said his best guess was that “the ‘LOL’ [he] sent…was because this whole false electors lawsuit business [was] insanity.” The Wisconsin litigation, along with dozens of other Trump election suits across the country, failed in court.