"The Democrats made do it!"
"No, wait, Hillary made me do it! Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Gotta hand it to Tom, that's actually the first new defense for Republicans caught doing wrong that I've heard in a good long while. They're not responsible for their actions, but they're not dupes of the RNC either, ohhhhh nooo.
Whether he intended it to be funny or not, just the sheer audacity of it make me laugh despite myself.