We'll be 98% Unicom in four years.
I've long parroted the idea that if you assume he is a Russian asset (useful idiot), it all makes perfect sense. Was that why he championed birtherism, I don't know. Was it why he ran the first time and asked Putin for help and received it, maybe. Was it why he ran a second and a third time? Apart from avoiding prison, possibly. Self-preservation is job one for him. Grifting is job two. Staying alive by keeping those he owes biggly is job three at the lowest, but in this high of office, maybe not.
The first two (self-preservation and grifting) are what it's really all about. A lot of the dismantling of the institutions of government are mostly a distraction to enable grifting, if I had to guess. Cut the budget, reallocate what you cut to new government contractors in which you have an interest or with which you have some reciprocal agreement in place, ???, profit.
And to a part of your point, let us not forget that circumstantial evidence is also known as evidence.