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There you go again with the false equivalency. This has nothing to do with any Democrat, prior investigation, Russia, or anything else you can try and point fingers at.
This only has to do with the fact that Trump knew he lost, everybody in any position of power in Trump's stratosphere knew he lost, and he's either too corrupt or mentally ill to admit it.
It has to be one of those, there's no other alternative. He either knows it and is lying for ego and money ($250 Million from his donors, so far) or he doesn't know it because his illness and narcissism won't allow it. His own AG said if Trump believes his election lies he's "detached from reality." His own daughter said she believes Barr and the evidence over her own father. Sidney Powell said in a court filing, 'no reasonable person' thought her election fraud claims were fact.
To criminal charges, Bill Barr said he wouldn't criminally charge a President with a crime while in office because it was a matter the Constitution left to the Senate. McConnell said at his impeachment conviction hearing said, "There's no question" that Trump "is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day." He, however, voted to acquit because he said Trump was already out of office and therefore couldn't be convicted in the Senate.
The two of them created a false dichotomy to each avoid being the person to hold Trump accountable, though they both said what he did was wrong, therefore nobody held him accountable.
Now it's up to AG Garland to decide if he wants to light the tinderbox that would be engulfed if he charged Trump. There's precedent with Ford pardoning Nixon to overlook it and move on. However, Nixon had the respect for the country to disappear, Trump does not.
I don't know the right answer, but I do know that relying on criminal charges isn't a reasonable litmus test (see: Nixon) as to whether Trump should be disqualified from holding office, whether officially or effectively. Plus, we all know that if he IS charged, that people, likely yourself included, will continue saying it's a "political witch hunt" and only threaten to reciprocate. No Trump supporter is going to suddenly acknowledge he's responsible simply because he's charged. Trump himself long ago predicted that.
The bottom line is Trump's actions following the election, including his actions on January 6th, and those of the insurrectionists, was to illegally keep Trump in office. Trump intended to stay in office, that's not up for dispute, and he put in a chain of events with the stated outcome of effectuating that.
I have no interest in wasting my time trying to change somebody's mind on election fraud. There are still people that think the world is flat, there are still people that think the world is 6,000 years old, and there are still people that think the election was rigged. They're all ridiculously indefensible claims that aren't worth arguing against. I might as well try and explain to Tri why poaching is bad, it would be useless and is, frankly, uninteresting to me.
If you think it's okay for a Secretary of State that you've never heard of to singlehandedly submit false electors, and a VP to singlehandedly choose to honor them rather than those chosen by the voters, then you should thank God that the Democrats have more respect for our country than Trump because at some point you'd surely not like the consequences of losing our democracy.