Can Special Prosecutor Jack Smith convince a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Donald Trump didn’t believe his own lies when he suggested to his lawyers and subordinates that he’d been cheated out of the 2020 election, all with a Richard II-sized dollop of plausible deniability?
Plausible Insanity
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I’m no lawyer but I assume that assembling and attempting to present, as real, several slates of fake electoral college electors is a crime, both federally and in the states in question, whether or not you truly believe that you won the election.
Hey Ted – FYI, you’ve got Henry II above the cartoon & Richard II written below it. Cheers! – Tony
Some historical context: Starting in 2015, Trump put tremendous effort into convincing himself that he will have been cheated from winning the election against Hillary. IIRC, he was the only Republican candidate unwilling to go on the record that he would respect the official vote count.
The only thing that Trump had trouble convincing himself of was that he actually won in 2016.
To be fair … Trump almost did win. I’ve mentioned it before. Due to the perversity of the Electoral College, Trump lost by 22,000 votes (out of 150-odd million) scattered across four states. Biden’s “victory,” considering how much crazy Trump had spewed for so long, should have scared the bejeezus out of the democrats. Give it a little while. I think that the Burisma scandal is going to start scaring a lot more democrats fairly soon. I see no way for anyone to explain how Hunter Biden got a $1 million job, let alone that particular one, without there being a scandal somewhere in the mix.