Ironically the assertion belies the assumption that he did it intentionally.
See, had he intended to do it, he would have pulled a Sharpton or a BHO...
He clearly knew this was illegal. is an assumption. He expounds on that here with:
He described his decision to exceed campaign contribution limits as “wrong and stupid” but called for “fair treatment” in the prosecution of campaign contribution cases.
...despite his court statements, which were, in fact, made under duress.
Better, from another perspective he may have been a victim of a honey-trap (question is, by whom?):
The New York Times reported in April that prosecutors were in possession of a recording in which one of D’Souza’s straw donors, who he had a relationship with, is caught on tape discussing the arrangement with her husband.Summary: The husband recorded his wife discussing, again...with her husband, the donation on tape. He was so torn up over his wife's infidelity he targeted the man, rather than getting her on tape admitting to the affair. Bizarre, if you ask me.“Prosecutors also said they had obtained a copy of a recording made surreptitiously last October by the husband of a woman Mr. D’Souza was involved with romantically around the time of the donations, when Mr. D’Souza was separated from his wife,” the New York Times reported. “In making the recording, the husband was not acting at the government’s direction, prosecutors said. The woman, Denise Joseph, was one of the alleged straw donors.”
Her husband, by the way (again, the guy that provided a tape to the FBI), is a psychiatrist at Henry Ford hospital in Detroit, MI. Why is that important? Who knows, but he was doing post-graduate work at George Washington University during the Puppet's first term. He & his wife Denise allegedly met at GWU and did get married in December 2011. Does nobody else find it curious that the ONLY political contributions Denise & Louis Joseph have made in their adult lives to-date have been to Wendy Long? Who IS Denise 'Odie' Joseph? Nobody has asked that question. She only met D'Souza in July of 2012 (only 3 months before the scandal that lost him his job of President at The Kings College) according to D'Souza's statements. Nobody has addressed why there is a 5 month gap between D'Souza and his wife's donations to Long and the Louis/Denise Joseph donations. Could it have been Denise that convinced D'Souza to make the donations in the now-well-known stupid manner?
Or perhaps the whole matter is academic: Is there a precedent for men doing stupid things for a woman?
There's an army of a$$hats out there likely being paid surreptitiously to dig up dirt on Conservatives. The alternative to not getting targeted in this environment, under this administration, is to not get involved in politics.
That's raising the white flag, imho...
That he may have done the deed intentionally, and that the prosecution was politically motivated, are not mutually exclusive.
I don’t have a problem with taking Mr. D’Souza to task for doing what he did, because we all know that the media and the liberal establishment does not ask (nor wish) that laws are applied equally.
That much is clear.
But in his position, he should know that it makes no difference if it is an act carried out by liberals in every single county in every single state in the union thousands of times during a given election cycle, and he is the only conservative to ever do it...
The fact that the prosecution was politically motivated and the fact that it was dumb on his part are ALSO not mutually exclusive.