The trouble is, you are a rational person, and the premise is totally logical. The thing is, normal people do not automatically go to lying and brazenly making shit up to bolster their view of the day.
Trump will invent some sketchy stuff like birtherism to knock biden down. It is his weapon of choice. Something heinous as pulling the tag from a mattress can be escalated to something that only trump's abnormal psyche could conceive of. His other move, that is fueled by the lying, is to attack blindly.
A cornered trump is something I hate to even ponder.