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Fake Electors, Real Consequences: Trump’s Newest Indictment | Libertarian: Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution

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Trump's Defrauding of the United States

The first count is related to making false statements. This one isn't so strong because it's actually a First Amendment issue your, the Jack Smith even concedes in here you know Donald Trump was it's well within his rights to to protest just to say out loud these things. But then they go and spend I don't remember 20 pages or so expressing all the ways he was told over and over and over by his own staff by, by friendly state, you know, election officials that these things are not true and yet he continued to repeat them. The other one is setting up the fake set of electors. And I think in effect these are very, very difficult charges for him to get rid

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