.MaddowBlog: Trump can’t credibly say he didn’t know the truth about his 2020 defeat when so many of those around him had already told him the truth.
The point is not just that people around the former Republican president recognized reality and had the courage to tell him the truth. Rather, the point is that Trump was repeatedly told the truth by members of his own team, and he made a conscious decision to perpetrate a fraud anyway.
And that, according to the court filing from the bipartisan House select panel, may not have been legal.
By all accounts, proving intent in this area can be difficult, but that’s what makes the chorus of voices all the more significant: Trump can’t say he didn’t know the truth when so many of those around him had already told him the truth.the Post, “I mean, he understood what he was doing was wrong. I’ve never really doubted that from the beginning. But all of this evidence makes it certain that he had consciousness of guilt as he proceeded to try to overthrow the election result.
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