Tiffany Considering Supporting Pallets of Cash for January 6 Defendants

Wisconsin Fake Elector Plotter Asking for Payout

After a political lunch speech hosted by Wispolitics on Tuesday, Congressman Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor, was asked if he supported President Donald Trump’s using federal funds, Trump’s January 6 slush fund, to make payouts to those who attacked the Capitol on January 6.

“I would want to take a look at, what was the harm that was done to those victims? If it’s significant enough, perhaps they should receive compensation,” Tiffany said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Tiffany is less concerned about the harm to our elections caused by those who attacked the Capitol. He sided with them at the time by voting twice to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Now Tiffany is also desperately looking for a narrative that will try to make everyone forget his role in support of Trump’s effort to subvert the election.

During his speech, Tiffany trotted out a new explanation for his two votes on January 6th to overturn the election after the Capitol was cleared of Trump’s rioters. According to Alex Loroff of Spectrum News, Tiffany claimed he cast those votes because he was concerned about the election results in Pennsylvania.

“I had concerns with a number of states, in particular Pennsylvania, and I thought there should be a review and that we should make sure that those things that were done wrong did not unduly damage that election," Tiffany said at the luncheon in Madison.

Tiffany, of course, is lying. By the time Tiffany cast those votes, he had signed an amicus brief in support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to overturn the presidential election results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Tiffany’s home state of Wisconsin. He had also said that, if given the chance, he would have cast a vote to overturn Wisconsin’s election results, too.

Tiffany’s involvement in the events of January 6 may not have been limited to casting votes. Judge Jim Troupis, one of the creators of the fake electors plot, reached out to Tiffany and, according to the email I posted above, had a conference call with the congressman and his staff two days before the events of January 6th.

At the luncheon, Tiffany also claimed that he accepted the 2020 election results.

“On January 6 of 2021, it was decided by the Congress that Joe Biden had won the presidency, and he became the president for the next four years, and I accepted that, I referred to him as President Biden," Tiffany said, according to Spectrum News.

But as recently as last week, Tiffany would not say President Joe Biden won the election in 2020. He also supports the FBI investigation of Wisconsin’s results from the election that Trump lost by over 20,000 votes. That’s not acceptance; that’s pandering to the conspiracy wing of his party.

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Fake Elector Plotter Wants Big Bucks

Judge Jim Troupis, one of the creators of the plan to use lists of fake electors on January 6, wants $3.2 million from President Donald Trump’s insurrectionist reward fund. Trump created the $1.8 billion fund in a “settlement” with the IRS over a leak of the president’s returns during his first term.

The fund was created to supposedly pay reparations to those who were “unjustly” prosecuted by the administration of President Joe Biden. A number of insurrectionists online have already indicated that they expect big payouts from the fund if Congress does not intervene. Among those is Troupis who, with Kenneth Chesebro, concocted a scheme to overturn the election by having Vice President Mike Pence recognize slates of fake electors from a number of states.

Among the states where a slate of fake electors was created was Wisconsin where Troupis represented Trump during a recount and challenge to Biden’s victory in the state by more than 20,000 votes. Troupis is currently being prosecuted for his role in the plot, which went beyond a legal strategy into an effort to have Pence act illegally to prevent certification of the 2020 presidential election results.

The appeal for money from the fund was made in a letter posted online by iHeart radio personality Vicki McKenna, a pro-MAGA conspiracy theorist.

Troupis defends his actions as attempting to preserve Trump’s legal options. However, an email by Chesebro, as reported by the Associated Press, said that the real strategy was “the plan was to falsely present the fraudulent slates as an alternative to the legitimate slates at Congress’s certification proceeding.”

By January 6, 2021, Trump’s legal challenges to the presidential election in Wisconsin were over. They were over when the fake electors met on December 12, 2020, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 against Trump.

But that didn’t prevent Troupis and Chesebro from attempting to use Senator Ron Johnson to get the lists of the fake electors to Pence. Pence refused to receive anything from Johnson’s office and refused to cave to pressure to break the law to challenge the 2020 election results.

The fake electors plan was not just about the results in Wisconsin, but six other states as well. The goal was to create enough doubt in the results that an alternative commission for determining the winner of the election could be created, similar to the disputed election of 1876, even though Trump’s campaign provided no evidence of vote fraud significant enough to sway the election.

When the plot failed, Troupis became a lawyer for Johnson’s re-election campaign in 2022 and was paid $40,000. However, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul finally decided to charge Troupis for his role in the fake electors plot in 2024.

Troupis may be presenting himself as the victim, but his actions take him beyond behaving as an attorney to being one of Trump’s co-conspirators to undermine the election. Trump may have escaped prosecution due to the sloth-like speed of former US Attorney Merrick Garland, but there is still hope Troupis will see justice. He deserves jail time, not $3.2 million of the taxpayers’ money.

James Wigderson is a writer living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He is the former editor/owner of RightWisconsin and a former columnist for The Waukesha Freeman. Once described as “the spokesman for the state’s far right,” by the Capital Times, Wigderson is now a critic of the new Republican Party under President Donald Trump