The blinds were drawn at a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the northern coast of this Caribbean island. Inside, a woman’s voice could be heard calling out “Ken” — but no one answered the door.
Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Since then, Chesebro has kept a low profile. He decamped to Puerto Rico from New York last year, and some friends said he’d fallen out of touch. A prominent law firm issued no public announcement last year when it tapped him to run a new department and added no mention of him to its website.
Lawyers handling a case against him in Wisconsin have told a judge they were unable to locate him. Even the House select committee that investigated the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol did not depose him until last fall, after it had interviewed more than a thousand others and conducted public hearings, because it had trouble finding him, according to a person familiar with the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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A Harvard-trained lawyer once keen on liberal causes, and registered as a Democrat as recently as 2016, Chesebro may be the least well known of the small set of figures key to both indictments. His retreat from public life since Jan. 6 has deepened the mystery for former classmates and colleagues puzzling over how he became a central player in plans to reverse the outcome of a democratic election.
“The Ken I knew would not have been involved with that,” said Holly Hostrop, a lawyer who worked with Chesebro about 20 years ago on litigation against the tobacco industry that extracted millions in punitive damages for ailing smokers. “I have great respect for his legal skills and felt we were on the side of angels in that litigation. It makes me wonder how he got sucked into this.”
Chesebro and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment. As part of a rare interview with Talking Points Memo last summer, Chesebro issued a statement saying, “It is the duty of any attorney to leave no stone unturned in examining the legal options that exist in a particular situation.”
“This is what lawyers do,” he added. The successful appellate lawyer studied at Harvard University under Laurence Tribe, the preeminent legal scholar who advised congressional Democrats on both of Trump’s impeachments. Chesebro continued working with Tribe for about 20 years, on wide-ranging litigation involving class-action claims and punitive damages.
But friends said his politics seemed to shift after he reaped sizable returns from his investments in cryptocurrency in the past half-decade. He began to stake out more-libertarian positions in legal briefs, especially in his home state of Wisconsin, where he started donating to Republicans and working with a former judge, Jim Troupis, who Chesebro would later testify under oath had brought him into Trump’s orbit.
So you’re telling me this Harvard trained lawyer turned out to be something of an opportunist? Color me shocked and surprised. How could this happen?
I thought Roger Stone first floated the idea of the fraudulent electors.
He was caught on tape dictating the idea on November 3rd.
friends said his politics seemed to shift after he reaped sizable returns from his investments in cryptocurrency in the past half-decade. He began to stake out more-libertarian positions in legal briefs
and there it is, as soon as it is of personal benefit the liberal shows their true colours and agenda - they want money and power for themsleves, not a progressive, fair and just society for everyone.
They want in on capitalism, not out of it.
This is becoming one of my most used copy-pastas:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
https://blacklikemao.medium.com/how-liberalism-helps-fascism-d4dbdcb199d9
Fuck off
Some of us still care about our fellow humans, regardless of our successes
And yet you still support capitalism, the system causing suffering to billions, because it benefits you (and instantly get defensive about it), so I call bullshit.
You can do as much mental gymnastics as you need to make yourself feel better, but that won’t change reality - your actions are what count, not your empty words.
Big yet you take part in society energy in this comment.
Thank you, someone had to point it out.
Ok good luck succeeding in all that
There’s dreams… And then there’s reality. A compromise between the two of the best we can hope for
… for now.
“You still support capitalism,” they angrily typed into the device they bought, for which they pay a regular fee to access the internet.
1: There are plenty of forms of market socialism and only Marxists and really crunchy anarchists really want to abolish the idea of money, at least before the gay robots are running everything.
2: It is true that they probably live in and must survive in a capitalist country.
It’s the number two part that is at issue. They’re berating someone for living in a capitalist society when they likely live in one themselves. You support a society by being part of it.
If the world wanted to embrace the ending of border controls, like, btw, humanity has largely had for most of its history of civilization, I think that would be a better point, since it would be more accessible to leave a society you don’t support.
And yet OP is still being hypocritical for berating someone for doing the same thing they’re likely doing.
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Absolutely fucking hilarious. Keep up the good work. Some of us miss the mindless Reddit trolls on occasion.
Ooof, those fake points. People don’t like it when you call them out I guess. An ideology of “me” can only ever serve the few. They are blind.
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People who support capitalism may think they’re supporting themselves and their community, but for the most part they’re just supporting shareholders and hedge fund managers.
Intentions are all well and good, but they don’t mean shit compared to the consequences of ones actions.
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Yeah I am, because my daft ass is looking around at my “community” and there fucken is none. There is no community in America in any innercity. Its just a bunch of passerby praying they can make it to tomorrow. People are struggling everywhere and you’re calling me daft for pointing out the obvious? Employers, CEOs, Managing Partners, none of them give a fuck about you or your community. Shut up and contribute to their bottom line at the lowest possible pay. Nobody gives a fuck about anything but profit in America. Realize the reality around you.
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You don’t care about good faith arguments apparently lmao
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Your family is not your community. They could be a part of your community. But a community is made up of more than just your immediate family. A community is made up of the people who live around you, which in this day could be thousands of people. Do you know those people? Do you wave at them as you pass by? No, you don’t. Theres too many for you to personally know. Once again, bad faith argument.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Scratch a conservative and a traitor bleeds. After they whine and cry victim of course.
Mooooooom the new catchphrase just dropped!!
What does it mean, hon?
I have no idea, but I’ll keep spamming it online because I’m an edge lord intellectual!!!
That’s right. When a conservative scratches me, a conservative will bleed. Good observation, Sparky.
Lmfao, until capitalism is threatened, then you’ll be there shoulder to shoulder fighting for it with the best of them.
No matter how much you try to co-opt it (another right winged tactic), or laugh it off, scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds is a well known and established idea in anti-capitalist circles (aka The Left) for damn good reason.
If you don’t like it, have you considered not being a fascism enabling liberal? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
