I agree. I mean, I've argued with myself for years about much of his bullshit Trump actually believes, but I do think the answer is "quite a lot." The closest thing he had to a religion growing up was a church run by the guy who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking, which...explains a lot, and I swear I could see the moment when, as he said, "Frankly, we did win this election," that the Big Lie became Unassailable Truth in his mind. I do think that a lot of the other players know perfectly well that they're lying. They've just seen Trump get away with it so successfully that they don't see a compelling reason not to. Where letter dude falls on this spectrum is unclear, but either way, LW needs to get him gone.