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EDITORIAL_ Conspiracy 101: What Is a Conspiracy, and How Can It Be Proven?

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Conspiracy 101: What Is a Conspiracy, and How Can It Be Proven? 

By RedState Guest Editorial | 2:05 PM on July 21, 2025 

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By John Thompson 


It has been a long-running joke with conservatives about how boatloads of "right-wing conspiracies" turned out to be 100 percent true. The list is long and includes Hunter Biden’s laptop, the various Russia hoaxes and J6 conspiracies, the origin of the Wu Flu, the safety and efficacy of various COVID vaccines, and countless others. 

Recently, our country has seen violent anti-ICE riots and, with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s revelations, what might accurately be called a "Team Obama" circle of treason to undermine Trump’s first term in office. With Trump now back in the White House, conservatives have rightfully focused on what has always been the true nature of conspiracy, and that is the conspiracy to commit crimes of various types. There is an understandable desire to have justice brought to those who have sown such dishonest chaos these last years. This article is a brief primer on how that might occur. Put another way, we talk about conspiracies all the time, but what does it actually mean, and what does it take in actual, practical criminal law terms to prove such a crime? 

Here we go. 


Conspiracy Defined 

First, let’s give the legal definition of conspiracy. And before we get too far into the weeds, if you remember nothing else, think of it like a sports team – you win as a team, you lose as a team. Everybody gets the credit or the blame. I have simplified the legal definition slightly, but only because the nuances are not worth the trouble. You generally have three (3) elements to a conspiracy charge. They are: 

1. The defendant agreed with another to commit a crime. 
2. At the time of the agreement, the defendant or someone else in the conspiracy actually intended to commit that crime. 
3. There was one "overt act" done in furtherance of the crime. 

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