It may not be morally right, and a lot of you here won’t want to hear it, but as a legal principle “entrapment” is almost impossible to establish.
IOW an undercover agent can instigate the entire idea of a crime you never thought of, and beg you to get involved, and if you agree in any way to help, that’s not entrapment.
You have to prove you really didn’t know there was a crime (like you were just sitting there minding your own business but they made it look like you were part of a crime) or that you would NEVER be disposed to commit the crime.
If you are enticed into some involvement, and if that involvement is criminal, that’s not entrapment.
So yes they can make up a plot out of thin air and draw you into doing anything to help, and then charge you.
They can even tell you it’s not a crime, that’s still not entrapment. If you do it and it’s a crime, it’s on you.
Total entrapment. The feds are the ones who set up and planned everything.
**Unless you are Alec Baldwin...
“They can even tell you it’s not a crime, that’s still not entrapment. If you do it and it’s a crime, it’s on you.”
I agree with this to a certain extent because I believe it’s a reasonable expectation that adult citizens should have enough knowledge of the law to keep themselves from being scammed by the police, FBI, prosecutors, the Democrat Party, BLM, Antifa, JoeBiden, etc.
Randy Weaver was a victim of entrapment by the ATF and was ultimately acquitted of all charges against him.