Suppose that you entered a golf tournament and did pretty well, winning the front nine by one stroke but lost the overall championship by four strokes. Suppose further that you felt your opponent to be an inferior golfer who didn’t have as many followers on the course as you did. There’s just no way this guy could have beaten you.

Then suppose that you raise holy hell with the tournament officials about how the other guy had to have cheated to win. You assert your opponent took birdies on holes he bogied. That he had a secret deal with the greenskeepers to move the flag to a tougher position when you played the hole. That he had someone steal your ball on the 16th fairway in order to jigger your score on the back nine.

Your large following of supporters agree with you that this absolutely has to be true and put pressure on tournament officials to review the tapes to stop the steal of the tournament.

The tournament officials then agree to review the tapes and find no evidence of cheating on your opponent’s part. Your supporters then claim that the tournament officials are in on the fix and order an investigation of the investigation.

Then suppose that the very investigation you ordered shows that not only did you lose the tournament, you cheated on the front nine by having your caddie pay a woman in a tank top $130k to flash her bare chest at your opponent right before he addressed his ball on the first hole. Not only did you not win the back nine, YOU cheated on the front nine.

That’s how Donald J. Trump feels right now.