I believe him because 1. He directed the donations and 2. He has been unable to stop himself from talking/confessing from the very beginning.

If his intentions was to shepherd favorable laws, why wouldn't he have donated to Republicans? If you disagree with the feds and don't think that influencing lawmakers was his motive, then I'd appreciate your take on what his motivation could have been.

Why wouldn't you believe he is a shallow, privileged, self-important person who cares a lot about how he is perceived, and whose thinking turns out not be all that sophisticated? There is less to him than meets the eye, to quote Tallulah Bankhead.

I haven’t reviewed the current version of the indictment in detail, but the earlier version (before the campaign finance charges were removed because of the extradition -related bar, and then inserted in different form as part of the other frauds rather than separate charges) had identified and charged specific distinct chains through which both Republican-affiliated and farhter-left-Democratic donations than SBF’s cultivated centrist Democratic image were channeled, its not just SBFs word on this strategy.