Expert predicts one co-defendant's testimony will be particularly 'devastating' to Trump

Former President Donald Trump's legal adviser Ken Chesebro, who recently pleaded guilty in the Georgia election racketeering case, has "devastating" information against him — and is prepared to deliver the goods to Fulton County prosecutors.

That's the view of former White House ethics czar and impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen, who together with Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Tom Joscelyn walked through the implications in an article for Just Security.

"The State has evidence to argue that even other lawyers for Trump, who had a motive to conclude Chesebro’s plan was lawful and to join it because its goal was to reelect Trump, had significant concerns regarding Chesebro’s scheme and were unwilling to participate in it," they wrote. "The State can in turn argue that this is evidence that Chesebro’s scheme was unlawful and he knew it."

Chesebro authored a secret memo outlining the plan to seat fake electors as a pretext to get votes thrown out in key battleground states.

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"There is a large volume of inculpatory evidence pointing to Chesebro joining a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump," they wrote. "The State can contend that Chesebro’s own writings evidence his scheme was knowingly unlawful. Chesebro has already admitted to the electoral certificates being false; now he may also testify as to the elements of the conspiracy surrounding the filing of those documents. Yet to prove Element 2, the state will have to prove not only that the defendants joined a conspiracy (A) to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump but also that the conspiracy (B) contained a common plan or purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity."

The upshot of all this, Eisen wrote in a post to X summarizing the report's findings, is that "If Ken Chesebro testifies consistently with the documentary record, he will be a devastating witness against Trump for state and federal prosecutors."