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Trump claims he didn’t have ‘fair notice’ that Georgia actions could be illegal
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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Say it with me friends
Ignorance of the law is no excuse
It worked for Jr. Apparently he was too stupid to collude with Russia, despite his best efforts.
Being too stupid to do it is different from I didn't know. Though both are bad.
The next trump legal argument: "yer honor I'm literally too dumb to commit crimes"
I wonder if being found incompetent to stand trail would have any effect on what he did as president. Like would they just invalidate anything he signed?
Not only that, but he was definitely informed. White House counsel and other informed professionals were privy to a bunch of meetings where people were talking about these ideas, and they shared their opinions and sometimes got in shouting matches or resigned.
I think Trump's brain genuinely cannot process the concepts of "right" and "wrong" as distinct from whatever he feels like doing, and so you could say: Yes, people whose job it is to be informed experts told him very clearly that these things were illegal, but his brain is so rotten and single-minded that he couldn't absorb that their advice might be objectively true, any more than a dog can understand a "keep off the grass" sign.
Fortunately I think the chance of his lawyers advancing that as a defense is pretty remote.
It boils down to:
Like if you tell a child not to touch a hot stove, they touch it, then get mad you didn't stop them.
You always got to think what would a toddler do if you want to understand trump.
Yeah. It's just not a logical frame of mind. If you tried to stop me in the moment, you're the enemy and you must be destroyed, how dare you, I feel angry, fuck you. If I did it and later it turned out it was wrong, you should have stopped me, how dare you, it's not my fault, it's your fault, I feel angry, fuck you.
You just laid out all his platforms. I’m angry and fuck you are maga staples
Unless you're a cop illegally detaining someone for breaking a non-existent law
And hasn't been since before the Roman empire, possibly longer.
Ignorantia juris non excusat