Here's a story that is based on an article that ran in the Washington Post:

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/white-house-aides-bewildered-and-alarmed-trump-seems-lost-in-some-kind-of-paranoid-delusion/

Is the rise of alt-left nuts like Louise Mensch and the constant drumbeat that there is some FBI indictment waiting for Trump, along with these kinds of statements, part of an over-arching psy-op intended to discount pedogate when (or if) it finally breaks?

We now have Joe Scarborough claiming they're "pulling the string" on the FBI investigation and that Comey was too close and that's why Trump fired him. This feeds into a narrative that helps set the groundwork for their eventual defense and misdirection.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/morning-joe-says-fbi-close-to-exposing-the-president-its-a-criminal-issue-and-trump-knows-that/

It's a two pronged effort:

1. Trump is delusional and paranoid. The claims are baseless. (Considering the potential level of this cabal, most people would have difficulty believing it and might go with an easier-on-the-conscience explanation)

2. Trump is trying to distract from his own crimes and going after his enemies (It's possibly why certain politicians are so strident with their claims of collusion. They can claim it's part of an attack to silence them).