If you’ve ever wondered how ignorant some supporters of Donald Trump are, here’s one example: Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson. Thursday, while standing in front of the jury, Harrelson’s lawyer, Bradley Geyer, shared an anecdote, hoping to illustrate how stupid, er, I mean ignorant his client is. The trial centers around five Oath Keepers who are charged with plotting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021, BusinessInsider reports.

Geyer said when he met Harrelson and his fellow Oath Keepers, he soon discovered they knew next to nothing about the institutions or processes involved with certifying the 2020 election.

“He [Harrelson] didn’t know there was a House of Representatives and a Senate. He didn’t know anything about the Electoral College,” Geyer reflected, saying his client thought it was a place where “politicians went to get educated or whatever.”

In his opening statement, Geyer made plain Harrelson’s ignorance and defended him against charges that he took part in a seditious conspiracy to prevent the certification of the 2020 election, thus keeping then-President Donald Trump in power. In his half-hour address, he said Harrelson was so uninterested in politics that he couldn’t have intended to stop the transfer of power from Trump to current President Joe Biden.

“Kenny is literally apolitical,” Geyer told the jury, adding his client holds “no deeply held political positions either way.”

“He had no anger about the certification,” Geyer added. “He frankly didn’t care.”

If this is the case, then why was he there in the first place?

Geyer’s opening statement launched the beginning of the Oath Keepers’ defense “in a high-profile January 6 prosecution that involves the most serious charges brought to date in a case stemming from the Capitol attack,” Insider reports. Federal prosecutors rested their case earlier Thursday after testimony from their final witness, FBI agent John Moore.

During their month-long case, prosecutors showed text messages and additional evidence that demonstrated the Oath Keepers’ planning in the days leading up to January 6. Prosecutors presented jurors with evidence that showed the Oath Keepers had stockpiled weapons in a hotel near Washington, D.C., so that “quick reaction forces” could be summoned to the nation’s capital.

Prosecutors concluded their case by presenting a message Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes drafted. His message urged Trump to take immediate action to overturn his loss to Biden. He sought to warn Trump, “If you don’t then Biden/Kamala will turn all that power on you, your family, and all of us. You and your family will be imprisoned and killed.”

I really don’t understand why these people think this. It’s never happened to any other presidential family so why it would happen I’m sure I don’t know. However, Rhodes’s message, written in the days following January 6, was never sent.

Fellow Oath Keepers Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs, and Thomas Caldwell are standing trial alongside Harrelson and Rhodes. At the very beginning of the trial, an attorney for Rhodes said his client would speak in his own defense.

Geyer said that what drew Harrelson to the Oath Keepers is the extremist group’s “commitment to disaster relief services.” The attorney added his client wasn’t drawn to “politics and political rallies.” Instead, Harrelson liked the idea of being able to use his past Army training in “service to his community.”

“Politics is not his thing,” Geyer said, adding that Harrelson entered the Capitol while serving as a “personal security detail.”

But prosecutors had another completely different story to tell. On Monday they called former Oath Keeper Grayson Young to the stand. Young recalled entering the Capitol in a military-style stack formation, with his hand on Harrelson’s shoulder.

Young pleaded guilty to felony charges in connection with the January 6 attack, and he was pictured standing next to Holder as he took a photo inside the Capitol.

Clearly, Harrelson isn’t “apolitical” as Geyer describes him. If he is, why did he even take part in the failed siege? If he supposedly doesn’t understand how the Electoral College, House, and Senate work, perhaps it’s time to pick up a high school civics book.

I’m just sayin.’