Trump now fanning a conspiracy theory about the whistleblower

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18. I wish you wouldn't call him a "master" of anything. He's incompetent at everything.

He lies constantly. But he gets caught in his lies constantly. He believes in loads of conspiracies because he's so gullible and too stupid to recognize how foolish they sound.

He's not good at manipulating public perception, either. Look at his terrible approval ratings. He's not a criminal mastermind. Everybody knows he has committed many, many crimes. Loyal Republicans protect him and make excuses for him because they don't want to admit how morally bankrupt their team has become. Many of them have obstructed justice to protect their brand, also.

Once he leaves office, they will catch a worse case of amnesia about Trump than they did about George W. Bush. Once he goes to prison, Trump's current defenders will claim they "never really knew what he was up to" and all they did was "sometimes get coffee for him."