First of all they have the proof. They have the notes. They have the indictments. They have confessions and guilty pleas. It was a real plan formulated by them.
Next, it hasn't even been 4 years since 1/6/21, why would you exaggerate something like that? He's was charged a year and a half ago. Maybe they would have let him skate if he didn't run again, the way they did with Nixon whose crimes were less severe, but obviously not after they found the extent of the Top Secret documents he stole and the extent of his interference in returning them.
It doesn't matter if you think it would have worked or not, the events actually occurred, it's a scheme that was drafted by people in his inner circle and that led to state legislatures actually sending out Fake Electors while Trump held a rally at that exact place and time and literally called on Pence to go along with it and directed the rally goers to the Capitol.
Allied groups like the PBs and the OKs were prepared and led the breach at the Capitol. They changed hang Pence for not being strong enough to "do what's right" and you know the rest. It's fucking laughable bro after all that instigation that 3 CIs on the clock with the FBI were the ones that riled everyone up because otherwise it would have just been a peaceful protest. I mean for goodness sake, when the PBs got there they immediately started tearing down the barricades, some poor female cop got knocked out within minutes.