A Celebration
I’ll be out tonight and tomorrow for the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. As we are all saying to each other this year, besorot tovot — may we hear good news. Those Hebrew words have become my new meditation.
May we hear good news about all important matters. There is so much potential for good in the world.
We’re in this together,
Joyce
p.s.: We’ll have a lot of news to pick up on Friday when I’m back, starting with Jack Smith’s new filling in the January 6 case. Anyone who is interested can get a start on it—all 165 pages–here.
Shana Tovah to you and yours - may this year bring us justice and peace
Trump's consciousness of guilt does not turn on whether or not he knew or even believed he won the election. That knowledge is not an element of the crime. Even if Trump actually believed he won the election, it did not, as a matter of law, justify him in leading an insurrection. The prosecutor does not have to prove that he knew or believed he lost, and the Court will not recognize a defense that he sought to fraudulently overthrow the election because he actually thought he won.
Furthermore, even if Trump actually did win the election, it also did not justify him in provoking a siege of the Capitol, causing numerous deaths, and creating fraudulent Electors to scam the public into believing they were valid Electors to vote him into office.
In all these instances, Trump's legal remedy was to pursue his claim in the courts. Oh, wait a minute! He did that - 60 times, and all 60 courts found no evidence of fraud, as did his own Attorney General.
Trump's acts to steal the election were not in furtherance of his duties of the President of the United States. They were the acts of a common criminal intending to steal the most valuable component of our cherished democracy, and no amount of judicial dissembling and double-talk can camouflage such criminality with a cloak of immunity.