“You heard evidence during the trial that President Trump exercised that authority, at times verbally and at times without using formal procedures, while he was President,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the hypothetical jury instructions. “I instruct you that those declassification decisions are examples of valid and legally appropriate uses of President Trump’s declassification authority while he was President of the United States.”

I think that being in Trump’s proximity must warp your perception of reality; he is so at odds with the factual world and so strident in how aggressively he puts forth his own personal reality which changes day to day, that the brain just can’t cope with it and cognitive dissonance becomes the whole of its operation. I can think of no other reason why a team of actual real-life lawyers would submit something like this and say with a straight face that the judge should be handing it out as the official jury instructions.