Warping reality or just warped? Donald Trump faces a series of civil and criminal trials in the coming years that will tax both his Roy Cohn-ish practice of denying, deflecting and distracting and his Norman Vincent Peale-inspired approach to bending reality to his will. Not that he won’t send out his bargain-basement attorneys to sell us a dead parrot (New York Times): Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump argued that his actions in the effort to overturn the 2020 election fell short of crimes and were merely “aspirational.” The remarks from his lawyer, John F. Lauro, came as Mr. Trump was blanketing his social media platform, Truth Social, with posts suggesting that his legal team was going to seek the recusal of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the case, and try to move his trial out of Washington. Trump’s efforts to pressure his vice president and state elections officials into overturning the 2020 election results were merely aspirational. And the “Norwegian Blue” is just resting. Trump did not “direct Vice President Pence to do anything,” Lauro told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He asked him in an aspirational way,” Lauro said. “Asking is not action. It’s core free speech.” There it is: Team Trump’s free speech defense. Mr. Lauro used the same defense on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when asked about Mr. Trump’s now-infamous call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. During that call, President Trump pressured Mr.…