I find this much more believable than the people trying to explain away everything suspicious he says and does with leftist-style bullying tactics. "You're too soft, drill sargeant gotta be tuff!" which means "Shut up and blindly trust him because the plan and muh military!" (Even though he said the military is useless in all this and shouldn't do anything about treason.).
This makes perfect sense, and if the plan from day one was to let them steal the election but Powell and Flynn didn't know that, it would be GENIUS to bring them in and let them sabotage.