In a prerecorded interview with batshit Fox News idiot Maria Bartiromo set to air Sunday morning, disgraced former President Trump hinted at a bold new messaging strategy for addressing why it’s someone else’s fault that he picked the “liberal biased” Chris Wray to serve as FBI Director.

Asked by Bartiromo if nominating Wray was a “mistake,” Trump said “Yeah, sadly. It probably was. It was recommended very strongly by Chris Christie, who was, you know, a sad case. I mean, I watch him. He’s a sad case.” Bartiromo did not follow up by asking Trump why he would listen to the advice of “sloppy” Chris Christie, instead letting him ramble angrily about the former New Jersey governor’s polling numbers before segueing into lying about his border “achievements” in the 90 second clip.

For all the felony counts he’s already charged with and the judgment against him for sexual abuse, all the corruption and other shit that would be disqualifying for anyone else in a primary and a general election, this is the one spot where Trump is legitimately vulnerable. It’s not his record of failing Americans, it’s his record of failing his own fans by hiring and/or not firing Wray, Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, Elaine “CoCo” Chao, Bill Barr, Deborah Birx, and God knows how many others. He was was happy to fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper and election cybersecurity czar Chris Krebs (who likely the vast majority of his voters had never even heard of), but not the other “Deep Staters” who thwarted his America First agenda. That Trump is (almost certainly falsely) blaming fucking Chris Christie for Chris Wray is quite the tell that the twice-impeached loser knows this is a serious weak spot going forward. It’s not always going to be shitbrain Maria Bartiromo asking him about it.