I got a new job last year that's pretty easy for the most part. Our neighbor a few continents down got some new spies and decided that he would use them to make sure I won the election, bigly, ok. The second time he invited me to do a joint press conference I headed over to talk. I got up on stage and discredited all the intelligence agencies in my own country and said I didn't see why he would interfere with the election because he's a great guy. Everyone's response was simple, "you screwed up, this may be treason." So treasoning didn't work. I don't mind lying to people so I made up some BS about misspeaking the word would/wouldn't and everyone totally bought it because I'm so intelligent, plus I have a lot of money, believe me.