I face life in prison because I represented President Trump. That is my family’s everyday reality. I was indicted on felony charges by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul in 2024 after Biden’s DOJ and the J6 Committee refused to seek or take any criminal action against me related to the 2020 election.
I am proud of the work we did on behalf of President Trump, and we deeply appreciate his recent Pardon. But sadly, this does not change the personal and financial nightmare I, and others, continue to endure as targets of radical State-level Democrats. The state-level prosecutions continue unphased by the Pardons. The United States Department of Justice must take action—civil rights investigation and intervention—to stop these ongoing prosecutions of those who worked with President Trump.
In the Fall of 2020, I was enjoying time in my retirement with my five grandchildren and my wife of 50 years. I had a satisfying and relatively distinguished career that included drafting Wisconsin’s election recount laws as part of a non-partisan commission. It was a surprise to no one in Wisconsin, Republican or Democrat, that the President’s former Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus (a former law partner of mine and fellow Wisconsinite) asked me to lead Wisconsin’s recount.
To be clear, I am honored to have had the trust and support of the President. More than 4,000 people volunteered to help in Wisconsin. One could never have envisioned that agreeing to represent a President could be so catastrophically life changing. The Democrats, led by Wisconsin’s rabidly left-wing Attorney General Josh Kaul, have now spent five years destroying my life and lives of my extended family. How many others he intimidated, threatened and destroyed we may never know.
Sadly, the Wisconsin felony charges are only the last in 5 years of unending hell for me and my family. We count no fewer than 17 separate legal actions against me by the Democrats during these years—from numerous Bar Complaints, to the J6 Committee, to DOJ/FBI secret subpoenas of my email and phone records, to seizing the electronics of a family member on a Disney Cruise, to Civil Actions seeking millions, to denial of travel to foreign countries and much more. There was not a single day during most of the past five years that my wife did not expect our doors to be broken down. For me, every day now begins and ends with a prayer that this nightmare will end.
The indictment here is that Trump campaign lawyers recommended the use of Alternate Electors. But consider this: On December 1, 2020 the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, in writing, explicitly advised us and the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Trump should use them. In AG Kaul’s exact words, if Trump used Alternate Electors in Wisconsin, there was “zero chance” Trump’s legal rights would be affected. Leaving nothing to chance, on December 12, 2020 we publicly filed written legal documents in the Wisconsin Supreme Court saying that, in reliance on the Wisconsin AG’s written statement, we had recommended Trump’s electors meet and cast an Alternate Electors ballot on December 14, 2020.
The Attorney General and all Biden’s lawyers apparently agreed with the use of Alternate Electors—none of them objected when legally obligated to do so in December 2020. The Wisconsin’s Electors had their own independent counsel, we did not represent them, and that counsel too recommended the Alternate Electors meet. Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig publicly agreed. Put simply, not recommending Alternate Electors would have been legal malpractice.
It gets worse. Kaul’s own office wrote an official letter in 2022 noting that use of Alternate Electors has a long history and it was certainly not “fraud or forgery” (the charges he now makes). You cannot make this stuff up—Kaul twice acknowledged that Alternate Electors were required to preserve the President’s rights. As punctuation on the evil afoot—Wisconsin’s Attorney General Kaul, before filing the felony charges, barred the lawyers who wrote that 2022 letter for him from any involvement in the felony case.
The financial cost is staggering--now approaching two million dollars. Costs will far exceed $3 million before it concludes with a 6-8 week jury trial. It may indeed break me emotionally and financially, just as it has destroyed my reputation and so many of my life-long friendships.
One can never recover the lost years or the lost days not spent in retirement with grandchildren. This is the price Democrats demand for answering the call of the then sitting President of the United States. What they cannot get by their dreams of destroying President Trump now, they extract in blood from others. Let no one say that the Democrats, Kaul and their immoral ilk, have not destroyed, and continue to destroy, the very fabric of our legal system. The pain and damage they have done continues unabated for the Troupis family.
Please check out www.Lawfare-triage.com for every document referred to here.
I am proud of the work we did on behalf of President Trump, and we deeply appreciate his recent Pardon. But sadly, this does not change the personal and financial nightmare I, and others, continue to endure as targets of radical State-level Democrats. The state-level prosecutions continue unphased by the Pardons. The United States Department of Justice must take action—civil rights investigation and intervention—to stop these ongoing prosecutions of those who worked with President Trump.
In the Fall of 2020, I was enjoying time in my retirement with my five grandchildren and my wife of 50 years. I had a satisfying and relatively distinguished career that included drafting Wisconsin’s election recount laws as part of a non-partisan commission. It was a surprise to no one in Wisconsin, Republican or Democrat, that the President’s former Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus (a former law partner of mine and fellow Wisconsinite) asked me to lead Wisconsin’s recount.
To be clear, I am honored to have had the trust and support of the President. More than 4,000 people volunteered to help in Wisconsin. One could never have envisioned that agreeing to represent a President could be so catastrophically life changing. The Democrats, led by Wisconsin’s rabidly left-wing Attorney General Josh Kaul, have now spent five years destroying my life and lives of my extended family. How many others he intimidated, threatened and destroyed we may never know.
Sadly, the Wisconsin felony charges are only the last in 5 years of unending hell for me and my family. We count no fewer than 17 separate legal actions against me by the Democrats during these years—from numerous Bar Complaints, to the J6 Committee, to DOJ/FBI secret subpoenas of my email and phone records, to seizing the electronics of a family member on a Disney Cruise, to Civil Actions seeking millions, to denial of travel to foreign countries and much more. There was not a single day during most of the past five years that my wife did not expect our doors to be broken down. For me, every day now begins and ends with a prayer that this nightmare will end.
The indictment here is that Trump campaign lawyers recommended the use of Alternate Electors. But consider this: On December 1, 2020 the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, in writing, explicitly advised us and the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Trump should use them. In AG Kaul’s exact words, if Trump used Alternate Electors in Wisconsin, there was “zero chance” Trump’s legal rights would be affected. Leaving nothing to chance, on December 12, 2020 we publicly filed written legal documents in the Wisconsin Supreme Court saying that, in reliance on the Wisconsin AG’s written statement, we had recommended Trump’s electors meet and cast an Alternate Electors ballot on December 14, 2020.
The Attorney General and all Biden’s lawyers apparently agreed with the use of Alternate Electors—none of them objected when legally obligated to do so in December 2020. The Wisconsin’s Electors had their own independent counsel, we did not represent them, and that counsel too recommended the Alternate Electors meet. Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig publicly agreed. Put simply, not recommending Alternate Electors would have been legal malpractice.
It gets worse. Kaul’s own office wrote an official letter in 2022 noting that use of Alternate Electors has a long history and it was certainly not “fraud or forgery” (the charges he now makes). You cannot make this stuff up—Kaul twice acknowledged that Alternate Electors were required to preserve the President’s rights. As punctuation on the evil afoot—Wisconsin’s Attorney General Kaul, before filing the felony charges, barred the lawyers who wrote that 2022 letter for him from any involvement in the felony case.
The financial cost is staggering--now approaching two million dollars. Costs will far exceed $3 million before it concludes with a 6-8 week jury trial. It may indeed break me emotionally and financially, just as it has destroyed my reputation and so many of my life-long friendships.
One can never recover the lost years or the lost days not spent in retirement with grandchildren. This is the price Democrats demand for answering the call of the then sitting President of the United States. What they cannot get by their dreams of destroying President Trump now, they extract in blood from others. Let no one say that the Democrats, Kaul and their immoral ilk, have not destroyed, and continue to destroy, the very fabric of our legal system. The pain and damage they have done continues unabated for the Troupis family.
Please check out www.Lawfare-triage.com for every document referred to here.
