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2. Willful blindness can be overcome by a significant...

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2022, 04:26 PM

Jun 2022

accumulation of evidence to the contrary. In other words if witness after witness testifies that they told trump he lost, yet he continued to spread the big lie conspiracy, and in fact raised $250m with his Election Defense fund, he can very well be toast.

Garland just has to gather his cojones to move forward.

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I begin by inviting any of our legal eagles to correct what follows if I am off the rails. [View all] Atticus Jun 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Tomconroy Jun 2022 #1

Willful blindness can be overcome by a significant... brush Jun 2022 #2

Including the Election Defense fund should tie in intent. LiberalFighter Jun 2022 #4

Yes, that fund had to be set up and emails sent out. brush Jun 2022 #6

I think Garland is hoping to flip someone like Roger Stone Tomconroy Jun 2022 #5

I think you have it right. Intent can only be determined by Tomconroy Jun 2022 #3

You are not wrong. fightforfreedom Jun 2022 #7

Some other legal terms likely to come up in this case: "mens rea," "actus reus" and "scienter." sop Jun 2022 #8

Latin terminology and theoretical concepts may be complicated, but anyone with the Atticus Jun 2022 #9