That’s an outstanding boiling-down of the complex legal issues involved here, both as to the indictment and the response by defense counsel. Smith’s team did an outstanding job formulating, framing, and executing this indictment, but as this NYTimes editorial argues, “Can Prosecutors Convince a Jury Trump Means Every Bonkers Thing He Says?”, (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/trump-indictment-fraud.html), it’s an open question whether it will suffice even so brilliantly done.