 Of course, they need him for political and legal cover, and they do make their livings off of him and his advisors and the other people around him. They, of course, they also make their livings off the president. What else would they say? If you're the attorney general, for example, you get to keep your job if he keeps his office. So you want him to keep being president. President's mental health be damned. Again, elder abuse.