Today, we showed what the documents reveal about the pressure campaign on Mike Pence. Chesebro began developing the idea early in December, and even sounded out a legal adviser to Pence about his plans. A senior Trump official told Chesebro to prepare memos on his ideas before circulating them. It shows a key dynamic here: how an otherwise-unknown and somewhat preposterous figure was able to influence the desperate final weeks of the attempt to steal the 2020 election. Chesebro appears to have live-tweeted his plans along the way, via an account I uncovered called "Badger Pundit." He cuts a bizarre figure: a well-credentialed outsider, willing to take on the persona of influential White House attorney at exactly the moment when the Trump campaign is desperately searching for a legitimate-seeming means to postpone the inevitable: recognizing that it lost the election. We'll bring you more stories from the trove of emails, text messages, and legal memos over the coming days, offering you a detailed, inside view of a coup attempt which was only partially realized — one which would have proceeded not via street violence, but rather through exotic legal arguments aimed at contorting parts of the constitutional structure which had been untouched for more than a century. |
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