Again, you continue to refer to his mental state as the thing that is holding you back from accepting his guilt but I have explained at least twice already why this argument is a non sequitor. Do you have any response to it, or are you just going to keep pretending I never explained it?
Again, even accepting as our premise that Trump believes he won the state of Georgia changes nothing, he is still guilty of committing election fraud. The specific law I cited was providing a false number. The number Trump attempted to coerce the Secretary of State to “recalculate” to was 11,780 more votes than he had. That is a false number. Trump had no basis for it other than because it would have given him the victory.
This isn’t just some technicality. This is literally what the law was designed to stop from happening. Our elections are not subject to the ego driven intuitions of the candidates. They’re subject to the actual counting of actual votes to determine who actually won. We have our processes in place for a reason, Trump’s attempt to coerce the GA Sec of State into providing a false number contradicts the very reason why we have election laws.
This argument reminds me of the saying “framing a guilty man”, which is of course a crime and it’s a crime for good reason. It doesn’t matter what you believe the outcome should be. The outcome is determined by our systems, that’s why we have laws protecting them.