My thoughts on this in my untrained legal opinion.
- "my client is a delusional nutjob" is a tough defense for the President of the United States.
- His delusions are a part of his persona. He is unable to accept that he lost anything ever. If this was an isolated incident I think there would be a strong case that he actually believes it but when its his everyday behavior not convicting him is giving him a license to break the law. I like to watch/study sovereign citizens a lot and this reminds me a lot of them. That they legitimately believe their BS doesnt help them one bit.
- When Trump tells Raffensperger to "just say you recalculated" that is soliciting election fraud.
- Trump continues to make the same accusations after they were shown to him to be false.
- His aids have leaked to the media that he knows he lost. Would be interesting to subpoena them to testify.
- If he thought he won why did he demote Brad Parscale? I think they could subpoena records from the Trump campaign that show he was informed of how bad he was doing. Its not like he was polling well and severely under performed the polls which would be a reason to think there was fraud.
- Then theres also the issue of his actual attempted voter fraud using DeJoy and the Post office and what he was impeached for. His plan with the post office was thwarted because Democrats sued to and the courts ordered DeJoy to ensure the election mail was delivered on time but Trump did exactly what we thought his plan was and sued to not allow ballots received after 8 pm on election night. Had DeJoy not been sued by Democrats this could have flipped PA. Then there was the attempted extortion of Ukraine to help his campaign cheat. I dont think he can claim he legitimately believes he was screwed when he was actively trying to commit voter and election fraud. A person doesnt do those types of things if they think they are going to win.