Trump aide and attorneys each face 10 new felony charges in Wisconsin fake electors scheme

An aide and two lawyers representing President-elect Donald Trump were each charged with 10 additional felonies in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin.

According to The Associated Press, Wisconsin attorney Jim Troupis, campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and Mike Roman, election day director for Trump, were initially charged with a felony count of forgery in June.

On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Justice filed 10 more felony charges for each man. The charges allege that Troupis, Chesebro, and Roman tried to defraud 10 Republican electors.

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The attorneys and aide drafted a document falsely claiming Trump won the 2020 election, the complaint stated. A majority of the 10 electors told Wisconsin investigators that they signed the document after being led to believe that their signatures would not be submitted to Congress unless a court overturned the results of the 2020 election in Wisconsin. However, according to the complaint, the defendants attempted to provide the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence for congressional certification.

In four motions, Troupis argued that the charges should be dismissed because the false elector documents were an effort to preserve Trump's legal options and did not represent a crime. Troupis also claimed that the state's attorney general did not have authority to bring charges.

The felony charges each carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The fake electors scheme has also resulted in various people being charged in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Georgia.

Last year, the 10 Republicans who falsely claimed to be electors in Wisconsin settled a lawsuit and acknowledged that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.