The leader of the Wisconsin Republican Party and the attorney who led former President Donald Trump’s legal battle against the results of the state’s 2020 election were named in the indictment against Trump and several members of his close circle, filed Monday in Fulton County, Georgia , was submitted.
The 98-page indictment includes references to Brian Schimming and Jim Troupis for their work with Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump attorney accused in the indictment, who orchestrated the attempt in Wisconsin and several other states to supply false Electoral College voting lists to Congress has.
The indictment mentions a December 10, 2020 email from Chesebro to Schimming and a meeting between the two men on December 12 where they discussed a plan to submit false election lists for Trump, who lost the Wisconsin election about 20,000 votes.
Schimming’s mention in the Trump indictment isn’t the first time he has been linked to the sham election scheme and attempts to hold people accountable for the incident, which was a step toward the March 6 US Capitol riot January 2021 was.
During testimony by the US House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, former Wisconsin Republican Party leader Andrew Hitt told investigators that Schimming was used during the post-election legal battle to frame Troupis as a to serve as a “right hand”.
Troupis is mentioned in the indictment because Chesebro sent him a December 9, 2020 memo with detailed instructions on how presidential voters should meet for Trump and cast their electoral ballots for the former president.
“It may seem odd that voters obligated to Trump and Pence should get together and cast their ballots on December 14, even though by that time the Trump-Pence ticket is in arrears in the vote count and no certificate of election has been issued” in favor of Trump and pence,” Chesebro wrote in the memo to Troupis. “However, a fair reading of federal law suggests that this is a sensible course of action.”
The indictment against Trump and his advisers said Chesebro’s communications with Schimming and Troupis were all “an open act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Republican Party held a press conference in response to President Joe Biden’s visit to Wisconsin, in which he touted investments in the state from its Inflation Reduction Act passed last year. During the press conference, party officials only allowed written questions about the President’s visit and closed the event after only one question was asked.
Following the press conference, Schimming published a opinion In it, he said the wrong voters met under the guidance of their lawyers and only because lawsuits against the results were pending.
“As noted, Republican voters met in accordance with state law, on the advice of attorneys, and with precedent to uphold any legal options pending in the courts,” Schimming said. “If the courts had decided otherwise, the substitute voters would have been necessary.”
However, the wrong voters cast their ballots for Trump hours after the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in court against Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results – meaning Wisconsin has already denied any legal ability to alter the results had been.
While other states, including neighboring Michigan, have filed felony charges against a number of bogus voters, Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has so far declined to press charges.
On Tuesday, Kaul told CBS58 reporter AJ Bayatpour said he has “no comment at this time” on the charges against Wisconsin’s bogus voters in the wake of the Georgia charges.
There is a pending lawsuit from progressive voting law firm Law Forward seeking a judge to find voters acted unlawfully.
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