Originally published at: Trump plays stupid to judge: He didn't know overturning election was a crime - Boing Boing
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Illegal for the Democrats, sure, but totally a legal gray area for Trump.
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Wait.
You mean that despite what we’ve always been told, ignorance of the law IS an excuse?
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Knowing stuff like that is kinda in the job description.
Source:
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/the-executive-branch/
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Hopefully the judge has the ability to deny these ridiculous motions with a minimum of effort and fuss. This one might take an hour.
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Please feel free to play along with the game!
Other things tRump didn’t know were illegal:
Rape
Fraud
Sexual Harassment
Treason
Selling secrets to enemies of the United States
Sexual Assault
Plaids with Stripes
Stealing the aforementioned secrets and holding onto them when out of office
Interfering with an election
Racketeering
So, my fingers are getting tired, please feel free to add on.
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The fucking trial is the fucking due process, you bloviating orange pustule.
I can’t help thinking this filing is only going to enrage the judge.
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I mean, it’s not like he’d ever paid any penalties for those before!
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Does Trump think he’s a cop??
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Apparently, he thinks that the judge is as stupid and ignorant as his cultists and marks.
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Trump plays stupid
He’s certainly not innocent, but I’m not so sure he’s playing.
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It kind of seems like Trump likes enraging judges, because it lets him say they are unfair to him. And yes, the sensible question would then be what that actually accomplishes, but that would be some rudimentary forethought he’s never shown any real inclination for.
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He’s looking for judges to make mistakes in order to make appeals and or have the case dismissed. Of course it’s always about adding time.
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To be fair, some judges are his cultists and marks.
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Well…it can be, if, as Trump’s attorney is trying to claim here, you didn’t have adequate notice of what the law was. This comes up sometimes in cases where a law is ambiguously written and, as a result, selectively enforced. Anti-loitering laws that were attempting to target gang activity ran into this problem.
That’s not what happened here, of course. The crime he’s been charged with is not accusing the other side of election shenanigans, which is all that has happened in the past, that his attorneys are referring to (Democrats accusing the Russians of interfering in the 2016 election, for example). He did a lot more than just accuse. He took action to try to actually overturn the election results. That’s the crime. This motion is laughably bad. His attorneys are flirting with sanctions here.
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That sounds like a defense that relies on admission of guilt. You can only use ‘I did it but it didn’t count because I didn’t know it was wrong’ if you’re willing to say the ‘I did it’ part.
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