Attorney for Kenneth Chesebro Says Client ‘Never Believed’ Trump’s 2020 Election Fraud Claims
A lawyer for Kenneth Chesebro, a former attorney for Donald Trump who recently accepted a plea deal in the Georgia election indictment, says that Chesebro never thought there was truth to Trump’s election fraud claims.
“First of all, Mr. Chesebro never believed in ‘The Big Lie,’” attorney Scott Grubmann said on Saturday during an interview on MSNBC. “If you ask Mr. Chesebro today who won the 2020 presidential election, he would say Joe Biden.”
Chesebro pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to file false documents relating to his scheme of setting up fake electors in the Peach State hoping to challenge the results of the 2020 election.
Prosecutors claim that Chesebro authored legal memos on behalf of Trump’s campaign to establish a fake legal backing to the fake elector scheme.
The former Trump attorney is the second of the co-conspirators to pleaded guilty just before his trial was scheduled to begin on Monday. Trump and many other defendants have filed pleas of not guilty.
As part of Chesebro’s plea deal, he has agreed to testify in upcoming if called upon, including Trump’s, which is scheduled to begin early next year.
However, Grubmann said that his clients plea doesn’t implicate the other defendants and Trump has nothing to worry about if he is called to testify.
“He did not implicate anyone else. He implicated himself in that particular charge,” Grubmann said. “He is required to testify truthfully if he is called by the state, and Mr. Chesebro is a man of his word.”
“At the same time I will say, if he is called by a defendant he will testify and testify truthfully,” Grubmann added.
Another former Trump attorney, Sidney Powell, also accepted a plea deal this week just before her trial was set to begin. Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall also pleaded guilty to his charges in the Georgia indictment.
