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Yeah, because we were like, you got all the money in the world, girl, don't drop out. But now she doesn't have all the money in the world. Although, you know, I was thinking about this the other day and I've been saying, you know, she has no reason to drop out until the convention when they actually select a nominee. But the thing is, is that once Donald Trump gets to 1,215 delegates, one in the primary, he's the nominee. Yep. Those delegates are bound by party rules to vote for him. They can't defect. So it's like a suicide pact, you know, for the Republican Party. If they nominate him, he's the guy who, convicted or not, jail or not, he's the. He's the dude. Anyway. Next up from CNN's Zachary Cohen, Fulton County DA Fani Willis and her top prosecutor Nathan Wade received an onslaught of harassing phone calls over the weekend after their personal contact information was cited in legal paperwork from Trump's defense lawyer. That's Sadow. In the Georgia case, Willis and Nathan Wade both changed their phone numbers because of an explosion of calls in recent days. And the wave of calls came in after an unredacted version of the motion, including exhibits, was shared with counsel on both sides. The reporter did not publish the records, by the way. Just want to put that out there. And contact info was redacted in the eight page motion filed publicly. But cell Phone records with personal identifying information still appeared on social media, and that's according to the DA's filing. Now, the CNN or the CNN sound like my mom. Are you watching the mtv? The CNN checked and couldn't find the info on social media, but it could have come from anyone that received the unredacted motions. So they chad to change their phone numbers. All right. Yeah, that's the, that's the quick hits. So we have more news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right. First up from cnn, Ken Chesbrough, the Cheese. The right wing attorney who helped Trump campaign 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. That's from a CNN K File investigation. Chesbro denied using Twitter or having any alternate IDs when directly asked by Michigan investigators last year during his cooperation sessions, he denied it. That's according to recordings of his interviews obtained by cnn. But CNN linked Cheesebro to the secret account based on numerous matching details, including biographical information regarding his work, family, travels and investments. The anonymous account, called Badger Pundit, also showed a keen interest in the Electoral College process and lined up with Chesbro's private activities at the time. The Twitter posts reveal that even before the 2020 election and then just two days after the polls closed, Chesbro performed a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he later let on. In his Michigan interview, Chesbrough's lawyers confirmed to CNN that the Badger Pundit account belonged to Chesbro, 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. Chesbro has not been charged with any crimes in Michigan yet, and he sat for an hours long interview with the state Attorney General's office in early December. In his retelling to Michigan prosecutors, Chesbrough cast himself as a moderate middleman who was duped by Trump's more radical lawyers. Asked about the secret tweets, Danny Wimmer, a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nestle, said in a statement, our team is interested in the material and we'll be looking into it. Chesbro claimed to investigators that he saw the alternate slates of Republican electors as a contingency plan just 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 a, quote, state legislature has no power to override the courts. But just days after the 2020 election, Badger Pundit tweeted that the court battles didn't matter and that the Republican controlled legislatures should send their own GOP electors, predicting even then that Vice President Mike Pence could use them to throw out the election. Quote, you don't get the big picture. Trump doesn't have to get the courts to declare him the winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican legislatures that the election was systemically rigged, but it's impossible to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead. That's what Badger Pundit tweeted on November 7, 2020, the day that multiple media outlets, including CNN, called the race for Joe Biden. But in his interview with Michigan investigators, Dana Cheese bro said the very opposite, claiming the entire elector's plan was contingent on the courts. Quote, I saw no scenario where Pence could count any vote for any state because there hadn't been a court or a legislature in any state backing any of the alternate electors. He said that's what he told Michigan. Now, after the 2020 election, Badger Pundit tweeted more than 50 times that Pence had the power to count the electors. Benefiting Trump. Now that Chesbrough told investigators he felt misled by Trump and the Trump campaign for concealing the entirety of their plan from him, he claimed that it wasn't until last year he fully realized the campaign had always intended to deploy the fake electors regardless of the outcome of its election lawsuits. That idea was first raised in September 2020 in an article in the Atlantic which quoted a Trump legal advisor who described using alternate electors to overturn a Trump loss. When asked by Michigan prosecutors if he had any knowledge of the Atlantic article, Chesbro said no, but Badger Pundit sure did. He tweeted about it the same day it was published and he defended the plot. Now, big shout out to Talking Points Memo, who actually published this reporting a few weeks ago. Now there's a ton more conflicts between what the Cheese told prosecutors and what he tweeted from his sock account. You can find them all in the Talking Points Memo report and this new CNN reporting.
