Fake electors in Wisconsin agreed Wednesday that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election — and an expert predicts special counsel Jack Smith is already planning how to use their admission in his federal investigation.
Donald Trump has already been indicted for the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and Just Security's Ryan Goodman explained the 10 fake electors, as part of their agreement in settling a civil trial, have pledged to aid in the federal probe of the former president.
Among the statements the electors made, Goodman said, are: "1. We were told our action was contingent on court victories. (Ken Chesebro etc. planned to use them regardless!) 2. Certified docs were used "to improperly overturn" the election. 3. We were not duly elected."
This is essentially the argument being used by Smith for his case against Trump. It puts Ken Chesebro and Rudy Giuliani in "deep trouble" too, Goodman said.
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"They fraudulently misled many of the false electors," Goodman explained in a social media thread. "Especially with these 10 witnesses' willingness to cooperate and the like, it raises an obvious question. Why Wisconsin authorities (AG/DAs) are not investigating Chesebro and others? [The] outsiders who allegedly came into their state's political process to overturn the popular vote."
Wisconsin's Attorney General Josh Kaul told WKOW in 2022 that he was waiting to see what the federal investigators did on the fake election before he acted.
Goodman posted screen captures of the text messages sent by some of the fake electors in which they admitted they didn't "expect to actually be counted." Another said that their document wasn't "valid unless the courts rule" and, "We met and cast ballots but it wasn't official because it couldn't be."
The most incriminating, he said was a text that said, "This is insane... if you received a favorable court ruling you could do it after. Who is coming up with this?"
The fake elector replied: "They don’t want to have a technicality mess up the possible steal... RPW and trump (sic) lawyers."
RPW stands for the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
"I supposed we could just put out a statement that says... 'preserving our role in the electoral process still under legal challenges,'" wrote Republican Party of Wisconsin executive director Mark Jefferson in an email. "And assuming the Wis SC rules before noon, we change it to... 'while President Trump's campaign evaluates its legal options.'"
They assumed the Wisconsin Supreme Court was going to rule against them, Goodman suggests. It also adds "further evidence some of these individuals were prepared to barrel ahead with the false electors certificates scheme even if the Court did," said Goodman.
An email from Ken Chesebro to Brian Schimming heralded a statement written for Judge Jim Troupis to put out about the meeting of the fake electors. Chesebro loved the phrasing, which read: "As the legal proceedings arising from the November 3 presidential election continue to work their way through the Wisconsin court system," he advised the party to move forward with the fake electors.
"Given that the results in Wisconsin are still in doubt, with legal arguments that have yet to be decided...." the letter continues. The results weren't in doubt by anyone other than Trump's team.
On Dec. 14, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the Trump campaign's challenge to the election. The following day, Chesebro sent further instructions on the next steps to ensure the fake electors could make it to the President of the Senate, Mike Pence, on Jan. 6.
