A specific detail about how the fake electors were operating in certain battleground states during the 2020 election could spell legal "game over" for former President Donald Trump in the election interference cases in D.C. and Georgia, argued former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC Wednesday.
This comes after the leak of proffer videos in the Georgia election racketeering case for multiple Trump-affiliated attorneys who took guilty pleas in the case — including Kenneth Chesebro, whose answers were revealing.
"When he [Chesebro] writ large says that the recommendation to multiple cases seems to overinterpret the cooperation — you remind everyone of distinctions, but do you think that itself is also accurate or a bit of a reach because there are when you take on a client, you're representing them zealously, and there are reasons folks except [Jenna] Ellis tried to stay in good graces with the Republican Party and the Trump movement they once served," said anchor Ari Melber.
"Well, I think it may be a stretch for something that he sort of, I'm not sure if I'd say let slip," said Weissmann. "He went on to say, there's no such thing as a fake elector but then in the same breath said, in Pennsylvania they insisted on calling them 'contingent' electors, that these were electors who wanted in writing that they were not the real electors unless and until the vote was counted and they were in fact for the winning vote. And the internal documentation were people saying, please make sure that is not said with respect to the other electors because it will spread like wildfire, and indeed, electors on the Trump campaign were not willing to go along with this. So indeed, people who saw this as fake electors and others willing but only if it's clear they're contingent."
If Trump was aware of this legal fight going on, and therefore that the people who were not calling themselves contingent electors were breaking the law, Weissman said, "that's game over."
"But that's the piece we don't know yet, is what exactly was said to him about the nature of the electors," he added.
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