CNN Busts Trump Co-Defendant For Having ‘Secret Twitter’ Where He Spilled About Fake Electors Plot

CNN’s intrepid KFILE correspondent Andy Kaczynski and his team exposed Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro’s secret Twitter account, about which he lied to investigators and with which he blurted out schemes to abet the Trump fake electors plot.

The KFILE team dropped a new exclusive detailing the damaging revelations against Chesebro — and there are tapes:

Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme, a CNN KFile investigation has found.

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.

On Monday afternoon’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, Marshall Cohen reported the news to anchor Dana Bash:

DANA BASH: So Chesebro, I should say, hid his secret account from prosecutors in Michigan. And there are tapes, too.

MARSHALL COHEN: There are Dana. And look, when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth. And CNN’s KFILE team uncovered a secret Twitter that Chesebro concealed from prosecutors in Michigan. And dozens of tweets from 2020 undercut what he later told them about his role in the scheme. We also obtained the audio of Chesebro’s Michigan interview so you can hear it for yourself. When he was asked directly if he uses social media. He said no. Take a listen.

INVESTIGATOR: Any social media presence. Facebook. Instagram.

KENNETH CHESEBRO: No. I mean, no, I for whatever I mean, before.

INVESTIGATOR: Any of, alternate IDs that you’re using for that kind of stuff.

No, I mean, I don’t, I don’t do any tweeting.

MARSHALL COHEN: Yeah, maybe he had good reason to hide those tweets, Dana, because they reveal that even before the 2020 election, Chesebro promoted a far more aggressive fake elector strategy than he later let on.

Here’s just one example. When he was with the Michigan prosecutors, he repeatedly said that the fake electors were purely a contingency to be used if Trump won any of his election lawsuits. Listen to what he told the prosecutors.

INVESTIGATOR: So Eastman, he had this idea that state legislatures could somehow be effective in overturning the courts, which I thought was ridiculous. I wanted conditional language in all the states that I suggested three times to Trump campaign, Dec 12, they make it conditional on winning litigation.

MARSHALL COHEN: So that’s what he told them. But look at this from Chess Pro’s anonymous Twitter account called Badger Pundit. On the day Trump lost, he wrote, quote, “Trump doesn’t have to get courts to declare him the winner. He just needs to convince Republican legislatures that the election was systematically rigged.”.

Totally dismissing the role of the courts, embracing the strategy that you just heard him call ridiculous. And Dana, this is just one of many examples where his tweets and his testimony don’t line up.

Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.