Jay Donaldson(1) Another thing to ignore in the media coverage: they're claiming that Jack Smith has to prove the Donald Trump knew he was lying. THAT IS INCORRECT. It doesn't matter whether he knew he was lying or not -- though he demonstrably and obviously DID know he was lying -- because his ACTIONS were illegal.
(2) There are legal processes to be followed if you want to challenge the results of an election. All of those processes were attempted in various states, and none of them found fraud (because there was none). To go ABOVE and BEYOND those processes, and to literally instigate a terrorist attack against the United States of America in so doing, is a crime regardless of what he thought the real outcome of the election was, and it doesn't matter whether or not he knew THAT, either.