The second half of Lester Holt’s NBC interview with Donald Trump has aired, and Trump isn’t any more coherent in this half than he was in the first. But this is an especially odd segment: In explaining his rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey, he says this:
[R]egardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey. Knowing, there was no good time to do it. And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have one. And the reason they should have won it is the electoral college is almost impossible for a Republican to win. [….]
He then goes off talking about the electoral college again—but that’s a difficult bit to parse there. Is he saying that he decided to fire Comey because he considers the Russia investigation to be a “made up story?” That he didn’t think it would be an issue either way because it’s a “made up story?”
He also offered: “I have a certified letter. I’m not just saying that. It says I’m not involved in Russia.”
Which again, is just … a bizarre thing to even say.