Interesting story: turns out there was once a reality TV star who was such an obvious idiot nobody took it seriously when he decided to run for president...
It makes the powerful people he colluded with, his parents and their network, and powerful politicos like Waters, appear less culpable.
He is making sure that he doesn’t appear smart enough to have the capacity to collude though clearly if you follow the money trail that’s exactly what happened. He is making himself to be the scapegoat by playing the fool.
Just like Bernie Made-off, he isn’t an island of culpability as is being conveniently portrayed. He was surrounded by various people who can be documented to have benefitted in the millions of dollars and will magically, by slight of hand, walk away from the whole thing scot free.
He is the opposite of stupid. He’s playing the fool to help the politically powerful patrons he served. That’s effective “altruism” for sure.
If that were the case, the powerful people wouldn't appreciate him constantly talking about it and effectively throwing fuel on the fire? I think it's something else.
Unless of course you know in advance that important and powerful people have your back and will ensure that nothing bad will ever happen to you.