Maybe Donald Trump is tired. It's debatable whether or not he actually wanted to win the presidency, but it's a safe bet he never understood how much time and work the job required. So now, almost a year into the job and on a golfing-free trip through Asia, his ability to lie and spin convincingly is getting pretty thin.

There's his claim that he has no comment on the allegations against Roy Moore because he doesn't "watch much television," for example, despite regularly live-tweeting Fox & Friends. Now, he'd also like Robert Mueller and everyone to stop talking about Russian interference in the 2016 election, please, because Vladimir Putin himself said it never happened:

He just — every time he sees me, he says, “I didn’t do that.” And I believe — I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. But he says, “I didn’t do that.” I think he’s very insulted by it, if you want to know the truth.

I think that he is very, very strong in the fact that he didn’t do it.

If only those U.S. intelligence agencies were very, very strong in their conclusions that Russia did try to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, maybe Trump would take them more seriously. How is he supposed to believe them if they aren't even passionate about what they're telling him?

Oh, but Trump doesn't actually care about the U.S. intelligence:

And then you hear it’s 17 agencies. Well, it’s three. And one is Brennan and one is whatever. I mean, give me a break. They’re political hacks. So you look at it — I mean, you have Brennan, you have Clapper, and you have Comey. Comey is proven now to be a liar and he’s proven to be a leaker.

Trump made these comments defending Putin to reporters on Air Force one en route to Da Nang, and they don't even make sense in the worldview the president lives in: every interaction is a zero-sum game and every person who isn't your blood relative is a mark you need to screw over before they do you first. It's a frame of reference he uses when dealing with every other world leader, when he accuses China of taking advantage of the U.S. or bitching that Australia is duping us by sending a group of refugees. Hell, it's the same logic he uses when talking about his own intelligence agencies.

But Putin, specifically, remains beyond suspicion. Weird.

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