August 30, 2023
In 2019, I wrote about Trump’s willful blindness regarding his presidential campaign’s hundreds of contacts with Russians. Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping himself unaware of facts that would render him or her liable.
News outlets today are reporting that Trump will claim as a defense in his January 6th and Georgia cases that he was just listening to his lawyers like John Eastman, Rudy Giuliano, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Jeffrey Clark. In order to claim this defense, Trump needs to explain to a jury why he chose to disregard all of the advice he received from all of his White House and Department of Justice officials, who told him his ideas were crazy at best and illegal at worst. Trump exhibited “willful blindness” to the facts, and now we will see if justice is blind as well.
The Spin Doctor 