Chesebro thought Jan. 6 would 'blow over' if Trump gave Biden coffee and told jokes

Former President Donald Trump legal strategist Kenneth Chesebro had an eyebrow-raising idea to help former President Donald Trump appease President Joe Biden after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted Monday.

The odd advice appears in about 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday amid the settling of a civil lawsuit filed against Chesebro, another attorney and 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors, the Associated Press reports.

Rubin took a deep dive into the filings and found some interesting surprises, she told followers on X.

"Despite his being present at the Capitol on 1/6 and acknowledging he 'caught a wiff [sic]' of the tear gas in the Capitol, Chesebro still thought Trump could make it all blow over by inviting the Bidens over for coffee on inauguration morning," wrote Rubin.

"I think the President can put this behind him if he invites Biden and Harris over for coffee on inauguration morning, and attends the (virtual) inauguration," Chesebro writes. "He could lighten it up with a couple of well-placed jokes. Like he wants to make sure Joe feels comfortable calling him for advice in the challenging days ahead. Or we invited Joe over for coffee bc he wants to be sure Joe invites him four years from now."

Rubin also found another interesting timeline in the texts:

"Within three hours, Chesebro recognizes 1/6 for the 'fiasco' it was--but not in the way you'd think," Rubin writes. "Instead, he blamed [former Vice President Mike] Pence for the 'deceitful conduct that led to this chaos.'"

Chesebro is one of many Trump associates indicted in the Georgia election racketeering case prosecuted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. He accepted a plea deal, but recent revelations about information he hid from investigators could severely limit his use as a cooperating witness.

Prosecution has been sidelined by an ethics investigation into Willis' romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor in her office.

Willis denies misconduct and has made no indication she's prepared to step away from the election racketeering trial.