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Key question in two Trump cases: Did he know he lost?

When Donald Trump arrived to speak at the press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2020. [AFP]

As former President Donald Trump braces for two separate trials over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, his lawyers are scrambling to come up with legal defenses that could test the limits of the law and the Constitution.

They've signaled that they will argue that Trump was merely exercising his First Amendment rights when he spread baseless claims that the election had been stolen and then pressed state officials to change the results in his favor.

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