Dick thinks/was told to say, that "the walls are closing in" on POTUS. Sauce Breitbart.

We are watching a movie. Actors acting. If you are about to lay the hammer down then perhaps you want to appear at your weakest, so when it drops your enemies are disoriented and vulnerable. Thereby, easier to manage. When the shills hit this hard then logic dictates they just took a blow to they body that hurt. ie Jeb and Laura's facial expression at the funeral. That bolthole theory aint bad