I know we’re living in the crapsack timeline, but I didn’t realize it was a crapsack made of little shit people that the Republicans sculpted like they were Play-Doh and then threw them in the sack and made screaming noises, pretending the little shit people were screaming, before declaring that sack to be their new second-in-command after Trump.
A conviction would generally be seen as what establishes the fact that the person has done that act.
Which is probably for the best. I’d remind you that plenty of Americans right now would say that Biden has committed treason of some kind, so it’s probably a good thing that there’s a formal legal process for this.