

“I didn’t know how it was going down”
Trump told you exactly how he was going to do it. You dismissed it as “he’s just joking/being sarcastic”
Trump’s opponents warned you exactly how he was going to do it. You dismissed it as a “Witch hunt”.
People who voted for Trump are either naive wishful thinkers and/or just downright horrible people.
In any healthy democracy, this would have been seen as a scandal exposing signs of corruption and would have likely resulted in the dissolution of the government and early election.
But the US is not a healthy democracy.