....are you fucking serious? That's the most ridiculous defense I've heard, which makes sense that it's coming from someone defending the insurrectionists.
That's like saying "Well hey I believed that the person I was sitting next to on the bus actually WAS a child murderer, so hey, my act of stabbing them to death is totally a defense against me being guilty of killing them"
or, from real world events in fucking crazy ass republican-verse. "I honestly, and truly believe there is a child sex dungeon under a bowling alley/pizza shop (that doesn't even have a basement), so me going in there with a gun is a perfectly valid act, and not at ALL a crime in any way! Because it's what I BELIEVED!!" This is insane thinking, something the conservatives have been cultivating for years. The fact that you BELIEVE something is X, doesn't make it X, and it doesn't justify you taking an action that is against the law, simply because of your belief.
Your party is living in a fantasy realm of their own making. Their distrust in the election system, something you pushed really hard as justification for them rising up against the government, has been entirely motivated by their own fucking party TELLING them (without any actual evidence) that it's rigged. It's this incestuous, recursive loop of the conservative mouthpieces "asking questions" and feeding the doubt to their flock, then when the idiots start rambling about a stolen election, the politicians turn and point to their base, (that they stirred up into the frenzy in the first place) and say "see, we're just representing their concerns! So it's totally legit!" Ignoring THEY are the ones that have been feeding them those concerns in the first place.
But when they are actually in front of a fucking judge, and have to actually account for what they say in a court of law, and provide evidence, every one of them, has backpedeled so fucking hard, from officially declaring, on record, that they are declaring voter fraud, that they are probably reversing time. The other times they have tried to present anything, the briefs and information have been complete BS, poorly written, citing absolute garbage, so bad that the judges have had to just throw the shit out, as if it was written by a 10 year old, and not someone who supposedly passed the bar, and knows how to fucking law.
Give me a fucking break.