The obligation to prove intent is critical, right, on all of these charges. in other words, that the defendant acted with the intention of committing a crime or a fraud. i would bet every penny i hadthe that if you gave donald trump a lie detector test and you asked him whether he believed everything that he was sayin gavg, the answer would be 1,000% yes. and yet we have these historically we ve had other slate of electors brought forward. how did this happen and how you prove intent, greg jarrett? well, i don t think you can pr this particular casent?e, proving a criminal state of mind means that the district attorney has to prove that donald trump was aware that what he was doin og unlawful. everything we know about hisv conduct leading up to the certification of electors is he thought he was availing himself properly of the lega l process and exhibit a and this is the most exculpatory fors