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This is intentional - they're trying to lay the groundwork for Trump's Jan6 indictment defense: He was simply taking the advice of his lawyer in good faith that he believed he had actually won the election.
What they don't realize is that this is a trap by Jack Smith - because that enables the prosecutors to look into Trumps communications with his lawyers - https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/jack-smith-has-set-a-trap-for-trump?sd=pf
Doesn't this quote from the article make it seem like Trump was making his own decision:
" ... claimed that Trump himself read a series of academic law review articles about the Electoral Count Act to brush up on the relevant law."
Yeah it does. But I find that claim extremely hard to believe.