Chuck Darwin<p>New security footage from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot have revealed possible new crimes in Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election results.</p><p>Former Trump attorney Kenneth <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chesebro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chesebro</span></a> and a Trump campaign staffer, G. Michael <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a>, were caught on camera handing fake elector documents from Washington and Michigan to aides of Republican Representative Mike <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kelly</span></a> of Pennsylvania on January 5.</p><p>The video corroborates what Chesebro admitted in a text message on January 6: <br>that he dropped off fake elector documents to Kelly’s aides a day prior.</p><p>The documents ultimately didn’t get to Vice President Mike Pence, <br>who was in charge of certifying the election results, <br>thanks to the Senate parliamentarian refusing to accept the documents from Kelly’s aides. </p><p>Bizarrely, after the documents were rejected, the aides wandered the halls on the second floor of the Capitol for a half-hour, waiting for instructions.</p><p>It’s bad news for Kelly<br>—and even worse news for Chesebro, <br>who is already in trouble in Michigan for his involvement in the fake elector scheme in that state. </p><p>Chesebro was charged with felony fraud for his efforts to overturn Wisconsin’s presidential election results in June. </p><p>He was named as a co-conspirator in Georgia’s fake elector charges, <br>where he is cooperating with the state and has pleaded guilty to planning the scheme there. </p><p>He is reportedly also cooperating with prosecutors in Michigan and Wisconsin.</p><p>This new set of evidence could lead to new charges, <br>as it apparently wasn’t previously uncovered by the House January 6 committee, according to journalist Jamie Dupree. </p><p>And while Kelly’s role was known, the extent of his involvement in the fake electors plot was not. </p><p>Aside from that, however, the footage shows how close Trump’s cronies got to overturning two key states’ elections, <br>as only the Senate parliamentarian and Vice President Mike Pence stood in their way.<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/184350/new-january-6-tapes-mike-kelly" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/184350/ne</span><span class="invisible">w-january-6-tapes-mike-kelly</span></a></p>