We certainly do have evidence of his intention to overthrow an election which (despite the indefatigable efforts of his lawyers and political allies) has not been shown to have been affected by fraud to any extent even remotely likely to have changed the result of that election from a Trump victory to a Biden victory.Moksha wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:08 pmThe treason of Trump comes in many forms, but first and foremost comes in the form of trying to overthrow a democratic election and have himself appointed as a lifetime dictator. The second charge of this indictment should be in conspiring with a foreign power against the government of the United States. The third would be in turning the Republican party into a bunch of lying weenies.huckelberry wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:50 amI do not think people expressing fear of Trump is the same as proof of treason.
As human beings, we are constantly involved in making mental models of the mind-states of others; we need to do this in order to judge how they are likely to act, and to react to what we do. We can of course judge people's mind-states by their actions. It is legitimate, on the basis of Trump's actions (and speech is in itself an action) to conclude that he strongly wishes to overturn the election despite the absence of any solid evidence justifying that.
It is also legitimate, given Trump's long and well documented record of lying (that is, saying something that is not true and that any reasonable person in his position would be aware was untrue) to conclude that he does not see the truth or falsehood of a statement as important compared to the advantage he hopes to derive from making the statement in question.