To win this election, an alternative reality needs be created and the Republicans evidently feel the electorate is uninformed enough, gullible enough, maybe even dumb enough to swallow it
— Read on www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trump-makes-his-outlandish-case-for-re-election-me-or-the-wild-eyed/

This is precisely how a sociopathic paranoid narcissist thinks.

Grabs for straws.