Answer: don't 'trust' either of them. Trust yourself. How? By learning to look beyond the surface, and put together the pieces. When you feel like you have a very solid, reasoned and evidence based grasp or concept of what is most likely happening, it helps so much to experience a sense of trust in that view.

This is the whole entire point of the Q operation: to kickstart our ability to look beyond the surface, and put together the pieces. Things have NOT been what they seemed to us for decades. And, they are not what they appear to be now.

imo.