Maybe the bigger picture is to smoothly transition from the past evil corrupt govt to MAGA with the public not understanding much more than the Trump MAGA wave flooding the states due to better jobs, trade, peace with NK, and so forth, and the evildoers will be outed for their own collusion but not much more. Maybe this explains the never ending strategic defense until people are convinced in the virtue of MAGA. I hope not, for the sake of healing and justice and because the cabal needs to be permanently stomped out. Some people who voted third-party in 2016 still aren't on the Trump train. They don't "get it."
Maybe that was their public position, while they held a completely different one in private.
Maybe they should get put in line.