President Donald Trump is once again under scrutiny over foreign money flowing into his family’s cryptocurrency business, and his response to potential emoluments clause violations followed a familiar pattern — feigned ignorance, internal contradictions, and an insistence that critics simply don’t grasp his brilliance. Pressed on whether overseas investors were enriching his family while he occupies the Oval Office, Trump dismissed the concerns as “ridiculous,” insisting he has no involvement in the venture even as he defended it at length as an innovation the country can’t afford to lose. As he spoke, his denials repeatedly clashed with his own public…