The supposed intellectual heavyweights of today’s conservative movement are pushing hard on a defense of President Donald Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine that argues Trump did not extort a foreign country into launching an investigation of his political opponent — because he is too stupid to do something so elaborate and systematic.

While Wednesday’s first round of impeachment inquiry hearings was still going on, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro rolled out this peculiar line of advocacy on his podcast. “I don’t actually see objectively that Trump has ever had the level of intent necessary to do anything,” Shapiro said, adding with a laugh: “I don’t think that he’s ever had the level of intent to put a — to eat a hamburger. I think that it’s half-accident when he eats a hamburger.”