'If Trump believed that election was stolen, this entire indictment collapses on its own weight,' one legal scholar told Newsweek.
's insistence that the election was stolen from him, and that his insistence of victory would alienate voters and lead to the defeat of conservatives down the ballot.
On Thursday, the former president traveled to Washington, D.C., to be formally arraigned for his actions in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, facing a bevy of charges from fraud and conspiracy to obstruction of justice. And Trump, unwilling to admit defeat from the very beginning, has never so much as acknowledged his belief might have been incorrect—even after numerous defeats in courtrooms around the country seeking to challenge the outcome., could make things complicated for federal prosecutors. While Trump's actions may have been objectionable, the belief goes, they can't prosecute him for negligent or criminal action without proof he said what he said with malicious intent.
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