I think of that all the damn time.
Like, with Manafort for example. Trump, who bragged he'd hire "the best people" surrounded himself with people like Manafort and Flynn and Cohen. They are all lying losers, just like he is.
If we all pretend Trump didn't do anything wrong or illegal and never lied, he had Cohen as an employee for I think 12 years? In this made up world, Trump is still incompetent. He still supports Manafort and Flynn, oh and also Kim Jong Un and Putin. Even if we pretend he's 100% innocent of crimes, he's still been shown to be dumber than a doorknob. But when it comes to world leaders, it's all about ego and $. But I think he actually is dumb enough to think Kim Jong Un is telling him the truth about Warmbier and Putin is telling the truth about election meddling. His ego can't let him be wrong about anything, like meeting with Kim in the first place, and his ego can't handle anyone saying anything negative about the election he won.