Legal experts tell Politico that fat former President Trump’s recent attempts to paint his post-2020 election coup attempt as an official investigation of voter fraud and all that bullshit is all but certain to be seen by judges as too little too late given the paper trail of legal documents filed during all the desperate maneuvering in the November 2020 to January 2021 interregnum.

University of Texas Law Professor Steve Vladeck says examples like MAGA lawyer John Eastman having writing that Trump “seeks to intervene in this matter in his personal capacity as a candidate for reelection,” in a December 9, 2020 brief to the Supreme Court in support of Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s batshit lawsuit against the swing states, have “at least some rhetorical force that even Trump has been inconsistent about the role in which he was acting.”

Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice and NYU School of Law agreed but also said it doesn’t actually matter anyway. “Anyone who lived through 2020 knows he was trying to stay in office. He was not making a disinterested or public spirited assertion about election law. He acted either as a candidate, or as part of an illegal effort to cling to power despite being defeated. It wasn’t a legitimate use of governmental authority,” said Waldman.

Even Eastman’s lawyer Charles Burnham tells Politico that his disgraced and soon to be disbarred little shitweasel client that was how he saw it “President Trump – like every other president in recent history – wore two hats. One, as president of the United States, the nation’s chief executive responsible for ensuring that the laws are faithfully executed, and the other as a candidate for reelection. Professor Eastman represented President Trump in that latter capacity.”