Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel and special counsel Robert Mueller's senior prosecutor, said that Kenneth Chesebro's copping to scheming to invent "fake electors" in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election spells trouble for Trump's inner circle.
"What he has pled to unlike what Sidney Powell pled to, is something that is core to the January 6th scheme," Weissman told Ali Velshi, who was filling in on Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday. "[Chesebro] has now admitted, as part of his guilty plea, that he was part of a scheme to defraud the voters of Georgia, to overturn their votes in the presidential election."
Chesebro's move comes a day after fellow esquire Sidney Powell accepted a plea deal in Georgia to avoid jail time in return for her becoming a witness for the prosecution once trial begins in Fulton County over alleged racketeering committed by former President Donald Trump and several of his associates.
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Weissmann explained that Chesebro's flip to government's witness is massive.
"He's got an obligation to testify truthfully," he said on the show. "And if he doesn't, he can go to jail. His deal is that he gets probation if he testifies truthfully."
"And he will have evidence with respect to coconspirators."
The legal expert said that while Trump may be insulated from whatever Chesebro might divulge, it's the smaller players under him that are accused of doing his bidding to illicitly overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
"He may not have direct evidence against Donald Trump, but he has direct evidence against Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman," Weissmann said. "If I am one of the two of them, this is not a good day because they are both reported to be unindicted co-conspirators in the federal case."
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and former law professor turned attorney Eastman, both worked as Trump's attorneys and were charged alongside others, including Trump, by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
They stand accused of masterminding a conspiracy to subvert the will of the voters following the November 2020 vote where the 45th president was defeated by then Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
In Weissmann's opinion, they both need to concerned about the possibility of more charges should Chesebro deliver the goods on them at trial.
"They are indicted conspirators in the Georgia case," Weissmann said. "And there is now somebody with direct evidence who can testify against them."
