All due respect to Professor McQuade, but I think this is pretty solidly wrong. Trump's defense has been arguing "he wasn't trying to influence the election, he was trying to protect his family from a claim that he cheated"
"Publicly bragging about the cheating" kind of torpedoes that
The uninterrupted "former US attorney and current professor" to "wrong about a current legal event pipeline" is perhaps the strongest in our society today.