This is a bizarre rope a dope tactic.
It’s like a five year old in the back of a car with his four year old brother.
5: Someone in the back seat is a poopyhead, and it’s not me
4: Mommy! He called me a poopyhead.
5: I didn’t call you anything. I didn’t say your name at all.
No one over the age of 5 would be impresssed.