I understand all that and don’t disagree with it. It’s just my impression of our legal system that you have to prove the defendant actually did the specific thing you’re charging them with, and I think Trump has been smart enough to walk just up to the line, but refrain from putting his toe on it. No matter how obvious it is that he wanted what happened on J6 to occur, the prosecution would have to prove he actually had a hand in making it happen. And not just indirectly, but directly. It sucks, but this is how corrupt CEOs get away with illegal shit all the fucking time: they make sure there’s no actual evidence they had a direct hand in their crimes. Trump is very good at this. He uses his rhetoric to make tongue-in-cheek gestures that his radical supporters understand as orders, but which aren’t explicitly orders. My admittedly non-expert understanding of our legal system is that this makes convicting him very difficult.

Now, the Georgia case is much more watertight, from what I can tell, and I really hope they nail him to the wall with that one. I just don’t think the evidence is quite there for J6. Which is too bad. I’d love to see him go to prison over that. But I don’t think he will.