Imagine being VP, and dirty. Now imagine your president low-key endorsing Q. And you were hoping all along it was a LARP. In one fell swoop you figure out it probably isn't a LARP, and your boss whom you know after 3 years does NOT fuck around has known about it all along and never mentioned it to you. What do you do?
OR - imagine you do know and aren't ready to have it be quite that public yet. What do you do? Run cover for your boss?