Agreed. We have to remember that you can't prosecute people for things they have not either done, or for which you don't have sufficient evidence they've done. My guess is that whitehats knew the 2016 election was rigged, and deployed some tech or idea to bypass that rigging, and allow Trump's true numbers in. This is why the DS was so shocked by it, however, they also knew that the DS would never allow the same method to succeed twice, which the whitehats also knew, and understood from the beginning. Knowing that to nail the DS in a way that conforms to, and therefore supports the rule of law, and the validity and value of US / western institutions, they would have to allow it to play out as a sting operation. A sting operation allows the collection of evidence and data that can be not only legally binding and effective in a court of law, to prove decisive, but also enough evidence for the public to understand so that if the courts avoid their responsibilities, it can be leaked and thereby accomplish 2 things at once, exposure of bad actors / deep state plants, AND provide fuel for the mass public awakening by showcasing specific cases of electoral fraud. Pending whitehat VICTORY, this checks the following boxes 1. support the rule of law, and demonstrate it's resilience under extreme pressure. 2. provide an effective contrast with, and superiority to authoritarian / socialist systems 3. achieve mass public awakening, and recruit overwhelming public support 4. defuse and destroy attempted communist takeover of US and by proxy the western democratic world 5. completely reframe the globalist "post nation-state" narrative and reinforce the idea that nation-state democracy is the best form of world order, ie., nullify NWO narratives.