Because conservative media does not report the facts to their viewers/readers if that is where Pat is getting his ideas, how can he know that there is a mountain of evidence against Trump and his corrupt buddies.
Pat's not at all alone in jumping on any little rumor or innuendo about people named Biden with not one shred of actual evidence presented. He and many others want to believe Joe Biden has done something wrong, so a Jim Jordan can say anything at all, present no proof to back it up, and for many on the Right, that's good enough for them.
Today evidence will be presented in a court in Georgia as Mark Meadows tries to move his case from state to federal court. Meadows himself will not be there it seems because he can't speak because he would incriminate himself. I don't think it will go well for him. You can lie, lie, lie on TV and on Truth Social, but in a court...you must present facts. The burden on Meadows today in court is to prove he was acting in his duties as Chief of Staff when he was pushing Georgia officials to alter election results. He even offered campaign money to these Georgia officials to speed up altering the results. That's a clear violation of the law and not within the Chief of Staff's duties. So Meadows was acting as a employee of the Trump campaign, not as a member of the federal government. Not sure how his lawyers will try to spin that to he was just following his bosses orders but he knew he should not be doing it and stated such, including saying that "nobody cares about violating the Hatch act."
Probably going to be a large issue he said that as I don't think a federal judge will say violating federal law is something he does not care about.
There is no comparison between the crimes that Trump committed and Clinton's email server. It's not even in the same universe. Nobody ever mentions that she was allowed to remove personal emails from the ones she turned over to the government from that server. She was not attempting to steal and retain top secret classified documents. She cooperated with the investigation and never tried to cover-up or make excuses for what she did. She did something stupid, absolutely, but then she came clean about it and cooperated to fix the problem.
Trump did the opposite. He ordered people to hide the documents, to move them around so they could not be found, to destroy the surveillance footage of his minions moving the documents, he showed top secret documents to people with no clearance, and he likely did or intended to share those documents with foreign powers. Clinton did none of that. The fear with Clinton's server is it could have been easy to hack but she would not have had the kind of documents Trump had on her server...those documents are paper only and can't be shared via email. So, if anything had been on her server it would not have been as deadly to national security as the documents Trump took and tried to retain. No comparison, Trump acted like a criminal, Clinton acted like someone that made a mistake. Huge difference.
Somehow Trump's lawyers have finally got him to start saying "I thought" in front of "the election was rigged!" which is huge, because Trump refused to say this in the past. That's their entire case for his behavior, that "he thought" it was rigged. By adding "I thought" in front of his election lies, it is an admission that he knows it was not rigged but they will claim that he just mistakenly thought it was right up through January 6th and beyond.
Trump's golden ticket in court, and why he likely does not want any proceedings held in Georgia state court because it will be on TV, is to say openly he knows he lost the election but at the time, the days after the election through January of 2021 and somewhat beyond, he had been convinced he had won by nuts like Rudy, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell...whomever. He does not want his "base" to hear him say that. The reason he likely gives for repeating his election lies even though he knew they were false is going to be that lying about this helped him raise money and was good for his campaign. That's the truth. If they can get the case moved to federal court, it will not be televised and his supporters can't actually see him admitting these things...so he could go on Truth Social and say that's not what he said or spin it to something else.
Now, I have no idea what his supporters would think if they got to hear him say these things. They seem totally unmoved by having to hear FOX News admit they promoted and repeated the election lies. and paid dearly for it. So, would they care if they heard Trump admit he knew he lost the election but kept saying it was rigged because it duped his supporters into giving him money?
