State attorney general files charges against Trump’s 2020 lawyers

Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul (Morry Gash/AP)

The attorney general of the US state of Wisconsin, Josh Kaul, filed felony forgery charges against two lawyers and an aide who worked for former president Donald Trump related to their roles in submitting paperwork falsely saying that Trump had won the battleground state in 2020.

The charges were filed against lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis, and former Trump aide Mike Roman, who allegedly delivered Wisconsin’s fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman’s staff member in order to get them to then vice president Mike Pence on January 6, 2021.