John Titor's machine worked pretty much as the second pic describes, as I recall.
Not a physicist but the basics always kind of made sense to this humble anon.
I believe anons previously researched the number of 150 indictments over the USA per year, or 150 per state per year.
So regardless of the math, even removing at max 7000-8000, you're up 40,000 indictments more than usual.