When Robert Mueller addressed the nation on Wednesday, he offered no new information, relaying only those details already contained in his report released more than a month ago. Given that most people hadn’t actually read the thing, though, what the special counsel chose to highlight was significant: 1) that he in no way cleared Donald Trump of possible obstruction of justice, and was prevented from indicting the president due to Justice Department guidelines, and 2) that “the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing,” i.e. it’s now on Congress to impeach. Unsurprisingly that didn’t sit right with Trump, who reportedly spent most of the day holed up in the residence fuming that more people weren’t going on TV to defend his honor and, apparently, making late-night phone calls to other wronged pals to complain that he’s the victim of an elaborate revenge scheme.

On Thursday morning former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called into Bernie and Sid in the Morning, claiming that Trump had phoned him “around 11 o’clock” the previous night, sounding like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. According to O’Reilly, the president told him that Mueller’s statement was part of a detailed, multiyear plot to get payback after Trump refused to refund Mueller’s deposit for a Trump National Golf Club membership. “Mueller was moving,” O’Reilly explained, and “wanted $15,000 back and Trump said no.”

Batshit as the theory is, this isn’t the first time Trump has argued that Mueller couldn’t be trusted to conduct a fair investigation because of the disputed golf club fee. In January 2018, the New York Times reported that the ex-real-estate developer tried to get then-White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller in part over the membership issue. In a footnote on pages 80 and 81 of the redacted report, the special counsel explained that his family had left the club because they lived in Washington, D.C., and were unable to regularly get out to Sterling, Virginia. During Steve Bannon’s interview with the special counsel’s office, he recalled telling Trump that the so-called golf course conflict of interest was “ridiculous and petty.”

In addition to the country club issue, Trump also claimed Thursday Thursday that Mueller had tried to get hired as the director of the FBI after James Comey was fired, and having supposedly been rebuffed, was out for blood. “Robert Mueller came to the Oval Office (along with other potential candidates) seeking to be named the Director of the FBI,” the president tweeted. “He had already been in that position for 12 years, I told him NO. The next day he was named Special Counsel - A total Conflict of Interest. NICE!” In reality this is, of course, another piece of fiction addressed in the Mueller report itself during Bannon’s interview: