There are no gymnastics, though. The people saying those things don't believe any of it, and they're not trying to represent their actual view of the world in what they say. They're just spewing out whatever they think will win them points and get their team elected.The mental gymnastics of the same crowd who is STILL chanting "Lock her up" and "but her e-mails" going "looking into his lack of proper handing over of documents and putting secret documents on non-secure servers and in non-secure facilities is a disastrous and tyrannical overreach of the government" are truly of a level even Simone Biles can only dream of.
None of it's in good faith, and reacting to it like it is just lets them bog everything down in arguments they don't care about while also providing external validation that all their bullshit is important enough to need to be argued with.