Ken Chesebro's 'lies' put him on a 'journey from cooperator to target': analyst

Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro was hit with indictments in Wisconsin this week related to his involvement in the plot to install fake electors who would have falsely certified former President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 election.

In analyzing the latest charges against Chesebro, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that Chesebro's fate may have been sealed by revelations that he had a secret social media account in which he mused about how to overturn Trump's election loss and which he kept secret from prosecutors.

In a Twitter thread, Rubin points to a footnote in the Chesebro indictment indicating that "Chesebro seems to have lied to WI investigators about his Twitter account use — and they apparently learned that they had been played through a media report of Chesebro’s similar lies to Michigan prosecutors."

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Chesebro has already pleaded guilty in the state of Georgia for his role in the fake electors scheme, and Rubin speculates that he may have hoped to cut a similar deal in Wisconsin before news of his secret Twitter account leaked.

"We don’t know, but after pleading out in Fulton County, GA, Chesebro and his lawyers likely hoped to cooperate in any other state-based investigation into the fake elector scheme, just as he reportedly did in Nevada and Arizona," argues Rubin, who adds that revelations about the account appear to be "the beginning of Chesebro’s WI journey from cooperator to target."