the single biggest misconception about the Trump case is that he’s off the hook if he sincerely believes he won the election. what he’s accused of is undermining official proceedings. what matters is that he knew that the plot was illegal, not whether he thought his cause was ultimately righteous.

new crime strategy: surround myself with brown-nosers and yes-men who will tell me that anything I want to do is legal and not a crime

Silly question because in reality he lost, but hypothetically would it be exonerating if he could prove the election was stolen? Or, in our world, does the fact that the election wasn’t stolen matter?

My understanding is that it’s like if you are certain that a guy across town stole your car. Even if he did, you still can’t make a fake title and “sell” the car on the other side of town to a third party. But, IANAL, of course.

[Walking out of the bank with a cartoon money sack over my shoulder, trailing gold coins behind me] "I swear officer, I thought I was stealing my own money."

This is like, if I fully believe that my neighbor is a werewolf, it is nevertheless still a crime for me to murder him.

That would be WILD if all you needed to get off is to BELIEVE you were justified

your honor, i had to do crimes because the result of doing those crimes would be very cool for me.

Not a lawyer but even if he didn’t know the plot was illegal, does that even matter? Extreme, unforgivable ignorance can’t really be an excuse

Any charge that is predicated on Trump knowing *anything*-- on proving to a jury that a coherent fact was imprinted in a semi-stable form inside the mold-encrusted nugget slurry rotting between Trump's ears-- will be a challenge for the prosecution.

It's interesting that the fact he started claiming the election was going to be fraudulent several months before it happened doesn't come up much. It was so clearly the plan.