Maybe that’s what T is doing:

(testing his theory)

Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’

https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html

Trump warns ‘shot’ Joe Biden won’t be able to stand up to foreign leaders

https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/trump-warns-shot-joe-biden-wont-be-able-to-stand-up-to-foreign-leaders/