The case wouldn’t have gone to court unless the prosecutor proved to the ordinary citizens who make up the grand jury that the evidence against him was worth examining further.

In the trial itself, the prosecutor presented the evidence they have for the crime. They also bring in witnesses to tell their stories. The witnesses are under oath; that means if they lie on the witness stand, they run the risk of being sent to prison.

Trump’s lawyers get to examine the evidence and talk about any weaknesses or flaws in it. They get to ask questions of the witnesses to try to show the jury that their testimony should not be believed. Or, again, that it is not strong enough to prove any crime. They can also bring in their own witnesses.

All that happened already. The ordinary citizens on the jury heard and saw all the evidence and witness testimony. Everyone on the jury had already been vetted by the judge and the lawyers for both sides to ensure that they could credibly promise to make decisions about the case based only on the evidence presented in court. (If you think that anti-Trump people made it onto the jury, that would be the fault of Trump’s lawyers.) Those jurors saw and discussed the evidence, and determined that Donald Trump was guilty of the 34 felonies he was accused of.

Someone making an “admission on CNN” is meaningless. If they had something to “admit” to in regard to the case, Trump’s lawyers would have put the person on the witness stand, under oath, to make that admission. Nothing else anyone says counts in a legal sense. Trump is a guilty of multiple felonies. That is the legal truth.

We don’t need lies when we have the truth.

Those indictments weren’t “fake” because a real grand jury issued them.

And a real criminal court adjudicated the trial.

And a real jury unanimously found Trump guilty.

A jury comprising Trump supporters, I might add.

Trump is a real convicted felon, the only one ever elected to the presidency.

Add to that the civil suit he lost for sexual assault (that he still hasn’t paid), and his illegal use of power, and you have the biggest “WTF were you thinking, voting for him“ moment in U.S politics.