According to a court document filed on Thursday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has suggested an extremely quick start to the trial for Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in Georgia.
Willis appears to have called co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro’s bluff when he demanded on Wednesday that he receive a fast trial, stating that she would be more than delighted to have all 19 defendants on trial beginning on October 23, 2023—just eight weeks away.
Who is Ken Chesebro?
Kenneth Chesebro, not only assisted in the creation of the so-called fake electors scheme that was at the centre of alleged attempts to overturn the election results, but also expressed doubt that it would succeed, according to a newly surfaced memo from Trump’s legal team that was published by the New York Times.
Chesebro abandoned his blatant false electors ruse, urging GOP electors in six states that were in the race to support him to cast new ballots and submit them to Washington for a January 6 congressional certification that he had won.
According to the plan, former Vice President Mike Pence would either delay the vote count or prevent the confirmation of the election—which Pence refused to do—while Trump would “force” lawmakers, the media, and the general public to “focus on the substantive evidence of illegal election and counting activities in the six contested states,” Chesebro wrote.
Nevertheless, Chesebro acknowledged that he was “not necessarily advising” that the tactic be used and that “there are many reasons” why it would not be effective.
Chesebro, who is thought to be co-conspirator number five in the Department of Justice’s indictment of Trump, has come under fire for his involvement in the fake electors plot, but he hasn’t been charged or suffered the same consequences as former Trump attorney John Eastman, the so-called creator of the dubious fake electors legal theory, who is currently facing disbarment and is reportedly worried about being charged criminally in the Department of Justice’s case.
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The House January 6 committee subpoenaed Chesebro in March as part of its investigation into Trump’s alleged attempts to rig the results of the 2020 election.
Chesebro was one of five Trump associates and attorneys who received a criminal referral from the committee in December as a result of its 18-month probe. The others were Eastman, Mark Meadows, who served as Trump’s former chief of staff, attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jeffrey Clark, and Trump himself.
