Trump is most assuredly not an idiot. No one can achieve what he has, and have a lower IQ.
I will note that Trump’s greatest asset is also his greatest downfall: He (used to) emit impertinent and aggressive social media posts. While it appealed to a great many of us (since we are sick to death of the News Misleadia gaslighting us), it also turned off a great number of other people.
He may not have been wrong about voter fraud in 2012. Look what happened in 2020! It was blatant, that year.
In 2016, it seemeed to me, that Hillary Clinton was most upset, not that she lost, but that she failed to orchestrate enough voter fraud.
News Misleadia
***Good wordsmithing ✍