He was told by multiple people in dozens of ways that he lost, period. No ifs, ands, or buts. Over and over and over again. He was told by several people over many, many times that what he was trying to do was illegal. There is no way he can claim he really thought he won or that this coup was legal. Why? Because of this damning sentence:
"Just say we won and the republicans will do the rest."
That shows he knew exactly what he was doing was illegal. It shows he knows he lost and he's going to defraud the public. In the past he's always relied on repeating a lie so often that people start believing it - it's a complete fraud but he's been doing it his whole life. There's some sort of explanation of this practice in his ghost-written book about the art of the deal. He knows exactly that this is fraudulent and it's the way he's always operated. It's fooling the public with a barrage of lies, and we know all about his barrage of lies.
That also shows collusion with others in the conspiracy.
Now, lying isn't in and of itself a crime. But it's clear by that statement above that he knew he lost and this lie was one more fraud laid on the public in the entire fraudulent and criminal scheme. That simple sentence conveys knowledge that he did not win and they were going to pull one over on the American public. That one sentence equals defrauding the USA. That one sentence is the cherry on top of the whole shit sundae of his attempted coup.
To convict with circumstantial evidence is done by showing repeated patterns, repeated intent. His pattern of lying, defrauding, and outright stealing (the Big Rip-Off) has been on display for YEARS, before and after the presidency.
I really don't think it would be difficult to get a conviction based on that, even if they don't have a smoking gun email or text or phone call. They have a metric shit ton of circumstantial evidence and it all adds up to stealing the presidency from Joe Biden and fomenting a coup in order to achieve that end.
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