Has Trump got a case?

Let's look at two of the indictments against Donald Trump from his lawyers' point of view. First, the classified documents which he hoarded in his residence in Florida, some of them classified as top secret, and a few of them very very sensitive indeed. And not kept in heavily locked storage but lying around in boxes in his bathroom, available for any guest to open and look through. In fact Trump was so proud of his boxes that he liked to show his guests what he had and invited them to read and take note. Presumably he boasted about the sort of stuff he had to deal with when he was president. Pretty cool, right? But all unlawful. No question abut it. Guilty as proven. But then you look at the defense counsel side of things. Sure the 45th president had classified documents in his residence but he had been president of the United States for four years, he was a Big Cheese, he meant no harm to the nation he loved and served. They were just documents and he wasn't showing them to the Russians or Chinese or Iranians, for God's sake. And by the way, other presidents and vice presidents have done the same and they weren't charged with federal offences. And what about Hillary Clinton? She wanted to be president and yet she was regularly emailing classified stuff to people on her personal phone, I repeat, personal phone, not her official business phone. And she got away with it. No charge, no indictment, no prison sentence threatened. So why pick on Donald Trump? To repeat, he meant no harm and by the way as the outgoing president he had declassified all the documents in his head, and presidents can do that. Please show me the rules that dictate a president has absolutely no right to make judgments about classified documents that were prepared for him when he was president. All these documents have been handed over, so that should be an end to it. If Donald Trump is guilty of keeping documents, then so is President Biden, former Vice President Mike Pence, former presidential candidate and secretary of state Hillary Clinton and probably every president since the Civil War. So get a life and leave my client alone. ACQUITTED. Then there's the even more serious charge of conspiracy to overturn an election and telling lies to back it up and as good as inciting his supporters to charge on the Capitol and try to tear it down. But, the defense counsel will say, Donald Trump loves his country and he believed totally that the election had been undermined by fraud and that he had been denied a second term in the greatest office in the land as a result. This is what he genuinely believed. And, by the way, he was not alone in this belief. At least 17 million noble citizens of this nation we love also believed it was a fraud. So it was President Trump's right and duty to defend the honour of the nation and dispute the election result. And as for inciting his supporters to violence, Donald Trump specifically called on his fans to march on the Capitol but to do so peacefully. Not once did he say that the Capitol should be stormed and that congressmen and women should be put in fear of their lives. Never for one moment did the 45th president imagine that his words would lead to such appalling violence and he has many times denounced the violence and regretted the tragic loss of life of five people on that day. He didn't conspire to bring violence to the capital and to the Capitol. He tried to bring about what he believed was the just and honourable and correct conclusion to an election which he and all his supporters were convinced he had won. ACQUITTED. It could happen.