Almost everyone in the country has accepted that the “baby Christian” president had an affair with a porn star while his new wife was home caring for their infant son—but not the president.

This has put the president’s defenders in a difficult position. They have to begin any discussion of the situation by stipulating that President Trump is lying about immoral behavior and a potentially illegal effort to cover it up lest they be dismissed as fools, and yet they then have to defend his continual lying about it.

This cognitive dissonance has been hard on them. And, as a result, they’ve been forced to say some very, very stupid things.

Here are seven of the dumbest things we’ve heard from the mouths of Republicans defending Trump from the allegations.