The Nov. 14-Jan. 7/Nov. 14-Jan. 20 Washington, D.C. non-violent, white collar crime case against Trumpie has birth defects that are going to be fatal. This article from NYT is a humble brag on a Dec. 6, 2020 memo that "The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation did not uncover..." but is right in the indictment. It's author is Kenneth Chesebro, aka Co-Conspirator 5.
An indictment is only as strong as its weakest element and Jack Smith has put the weight of his entire indictment on this weakest element, the fake electors plot. "In the end, it became the cornerstone of the indictment against Mr. Trump." Without it Jack will go splat. He is not going to have this cornerstone and he is going to go splat.
Chesebro is a lawyer who worked as a student for Harvard Law prof Laurence H. Tribe for Al Gore in Bush v Gore in the 2000 election. Chesebro's memo is not some Rudy Giuliani-Sydney Powell clown show. It acknowledges that its proposed scheme is "a bold, controversial strategy", which is precisely what lawyers are supposed to do for their clients. Critically, it is on lawyers that Trumpie and his defense team say that he relied. Trumpie had a right to rely on Chesebro's memos (there are more than one); Chesebro had the obligation to make any good-faith argument he could for his client. In combination, that is an impregnable and absolute defense to the fake electors plot, the fulcrum of this indictment, which will fall on pre-trial motion(s). Trumpie will not be brought to trial on this indictment as it stands.
