Whatever you think about the Trump legal drama, it represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to learn some of the more obscure principles of criminal law
“What the law says is that you can’t get around criminal liability by purposefully avoiding knowledge of the criminality of the act,” former state attorney General Rob McKenna said.According to our KIRO Newsradio legal consultant McKenna, the Supreme Court established the theory of willful blindness so that white-collar criminals can’t just deliberately hire corrupt advisors and then claim, “Hey, they told me it was legal.
“The value of the willful blindness theory is that you don’t have to be convinced that the person knew he was lying. You have this other option, which is to conclude that he just avoided knowledge and facts that would have contradicted what he did,” McKenna said. “In other words, if you just avoid looking at all the evidence that the election was not stolen, if you avoid looking at evidence that the people you’re organizing on January 6, they’re going to riot at the Capitol or, you know, you avoid knowing the facts around the Constitution and the Vice President’s role than potentially willful blindness could overcome your claim that you really believed what you said he believed,” he continued.does it. Willful blindness is an epidemic.
Ah, that’s the catch. It turns out that when you swear an oath, especially the oath required of all those who assume public office, it means something. “His role as president and defender of the Constitution and the laws of our country do put him in a different role than a typical citizen would be,” McKenna said.being treated differently. To quote the great Ray Stevens, “There are none so blind as he who will not see.”Listen to Seattle’s Morning News with Dave Ross and Colleen O’Brien weekday mornings from 5 – 9 a.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM.
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