Jack Smith Has Set a Trap for Trump

Then, after closing arguments are done, the jury could still conclude, fairly readily based on jury instructions from the judge on the advice of counsel defense, that Trump has failed to meet his burden of showing that the defense exonerates him. This is because, to recap, the evidence shows

These lawyers weren’t his lawyers;

Trump had the idea to assert election fraud and declare victory before he even talked to them;

The attorneys were all in on the co-conspiracy with Trump;

Trump shopped around for people willing to tell him the “advice” he wanted to hear, and his reliance on that advice was unreasonable.

I’m confident based on the publicly available evidence that each of the above conditions applies. And remember, any one of them means Trump’s advice of counsel defense fails, even after he has given such a huge gift to Smith by waiving attorney-client privilege. ...