We've watched TFG for years, associate with, hire and meet people and then claim he didn't know them (he was just the coffee boy). I think it's more sinister because it always has been. I think he announced his run and then promptly met with the idiots as a dog whistle to the J6 type ilk that follows him. He's always said he didn't know someone when the heat gets on them and then we find out about secret meeting and their plans to overturn democracy.