Oh My God, Kenneth Chesebro's Secret Twitter Handle Was 'BadgerPundit'
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Trump attorney fashioning a fake electors plot.
By Charles P. PiercePUBLISHED: FEB 26, 2024 5:22 PM EST
Mr. Roger's, IF Mr. Rogers was grumpy looking f'k AND a shit lawyer masquerading as the election denying, 'just spit-balling', BadgerPundit. *Like the Honey Badger who doesn't give a shit nastyass Chese doesn't give a shit about the Constitution.
former trump attorney kenneth chesebro agrees to plea deal in trump election fraud case
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Once again, alas, the Chese stands alone. From CNN:
Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” when directly asked by Michigan investigators last year during his cooperation session, according to recordings of his interview obtained by CNN.
But CNN linked Chesebro to the secret account based on numerous matching details including biographical information regarding his work, family, travels and investments. The anonymous account, BadgerPundit, also showed a keen interest in the Electoral College process and lined up with Chesebro’s private activities at the time.
The Twitter posts reveal that even before the 2020 election, and then just two days after polls closed, Chesebro promoted a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he later let on in his Michigan interview.
Is there a threadbare excuse on hand? Why, yes. I seem to have one right here.
Chesebro’s lawyers confirmed to CNN that the BadgerPundit account belonged to Chesebro, describing it as his “random stream of consciousness” where he was “spitballing” theories about the election – but insisted that it was separate from his legal work for Trump’s campaign.
“When he was doing volunteer work for the campaign, he was very specific and hunkered-down into being the lawyer that he is, and gave specific kinds of legal advice based on things that he thought were legitimate legal challenges, versus BadgerPundit, who is this other guy over there, just being a goof,” said Robert Langford, an attorney for Chesebro.
So he was James Joyce for a while before he became a cyber-schizophrenic. Cool defense, 'bro.
Chesebro claimed to investigators he saw the alternate slates of Republican electors only as a contingency plan to have ready in case the Trump campaign won any of its more than 60 lawsuits challenging the election results —which it didn’t. He also told Michigan investigators that in his conversations with the Trump campaign, he made clear that “state legislatures have no power to override the courts.”
But just days after the 2020 election, BadgerPundit tweeted that the court battles didn’t matter and that Republican-controlled legislatures should send in their own GOP electors, predicting even then that then-Vice President Mike Pence could use them to throw the election to Trump.
“You don’t get the big picture. 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,” wrote BadgerPundit on November 7, 2020, the day multiple media outlets, including CNN, called the election for Joe Biden.
Chesebro hasn't been charged with anything yet. I suspect the Michigan prosecutors are fashioning some sort of arrangement whereby Chesebro will be booked as a featured vocalist in a courtroom as yet to be determined. It will, of course, be a solo.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Trump attorney fashioning a fake electors plot.
By Charles P. PiercePUBLISHED: FEB 26, 2024 5:22 PM EST
Mr. Roger's, IF Mr. Rogers was grumpy looking f'k AND a shit lawyer masquerading as the election denying, 'just spit-balling', BadgerPundit. *Like the Honey Badger who doesn't give a shit nastyass Chese doesn't give a shit about the Constitution.
former trump attorney kenneth chesebro agrees to plea deal in trump election fraud case
Alyssa Pointer//Getty Images
Once again, alas, the Chese stands alone. From CNN:
Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” when directly asked by Michigan investigators last year during his cooperation session, according to recordings of his interview obtained by CNN.
But CNN linked Chesebro to the secret account based on numerous matching details including biographical information regarding his work, family, travels and investments. The anonymous account, BadgerPundit, also showed a keen interest in the Electoral College process and lined up with Chesebro’s private activities at the time.
The Twitter posts reveal that even before the 2020 election, and then just two days after polls closed, Chesebro promoted a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he later let on in his Michigan interview.
Is there a threadbare excuse on hand? Why, yes. I seem to have one right here.
Chesebro’s lawyers confirmed to CNN that the BadgerPundit account belonged to Chesebro, describing it as his “random stream of consciousness” where he was “spitballing” theories about the election – but insisted that it was separate from his legal work for Trump’s campaign.
“When he was doing volunteer work for the campaign, he was very specific and hunkered-down into being the lawyer that he is, and gave specific kinds of legal advice based on things that he thought were legitimate legal challenges, versus BadgerPundit, who is this other guy over there, just being a goof,” said Robert Langford, an attorney for Chesebro.
So he was James Joyce for a while before he became a cyber-schizophrenic. Cool defense, 'bro.
Chesebro claimed to investigators he saw the alternate slates of Republican electors only as a contingency plan to have ready in case the Trump campaign won any of its more than 60 lawsuits challenging the election results —which it didn’t. He also told Michigan investigators that in his conversations with the Trump campaign, he made clear that “state legislatures have no power to override the courts.”
But just days after the 2020 election, BadgerPundit tweeted that the court battles didn’t matter and that Republican-controlled legislatures should send in their own GOP electors, predicting even then that then-Vice President Mike Pence could use them to throw the election to Trump.
“You don’t get the big picture. 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,” wrote BadgerPundit on November 7, 2020, the day multiple media outlets, including CNN, called the election for Joe Biden.
Chesebro hasn't been charged with anything yet. I suspect the Michigan prosecutors are fashioning some sort of arrangement whereby Chesebro will be booked as a featured vocalist in a courtroom as yet to be determined. It will, of course, be a solo.
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