Chesebro faces new legal peril as secret Twitter account suggests he lied to prosecutors
Right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro concealed dozens of damning posts on a secret Twitter account — and failed to share them with Michigan prosecutors, according to a bombshell report Monday.
CNN KFile linked Chesebro to a secret "BadgerPundit" account on the platform X, which the attorney told investigators that he did not use, and dozens of the posts he kept from prosecutors contradict statements he made about his role in the Donald Trump election subversion scheme.
“You don’t get the big picture," BadgerPundit posted on November 7, 2020, when media outlets began calling the election for Joe Biden. "Trump doesn’t have to get courts to declare him the winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican legislatures that the election was systematically rigged, but it’s impossible to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead."
However, Chesebro told Michigan investigators the fake electors plan would not have worked without court approval.
“I saw no scenario where Pence could count any vote for any state because there hadn’t been a court or a legislature in any state backing any of the alternate electors,” Chesebro said.
Chesebro sat for a lengthy interview with Michigan prosecutors in early December, in which he claimed to have been duped by Trump's more radical attorneys, but posts on his BadgerPundit account suggest otherwise.
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“Chesebro appears to have pursued a legally perilous path in his dealings with Michigan authorities,” said Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University. “The Twitter posts strongly suggest Chesebro committed the crime of making false statements to investigators… his entire cooperation agreement may now fall apart.”
BadgerPundit tweeted more than 50 times after the 2020 election that Pence had the authority to count pro-Trump electors without a favorable court ruling, and the account also posted a September 2020 article on the day it was published that first raised the phony electors idea, although Chesebro told investigators he was not aware of the piece.
Chesebro's attorneys confirmed the account belonged to him and “there’s clearly a conflict” between some of those tweets and his statements to investigators, and the Michigan attorney general's office has been made aware of the posts, CNN reported.
“Our team is interested in the material and will be looking into this matter," said a spokesperson for state Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Chesebro pleaded guilty in October to one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents in Georgia, where he was charged along with Trump and 17 others, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors both there and in Michigan, where he has not yet been charged with any crime.