That's the thing about the need of a lot of people to be awoken--and I don't mean that as an insult--to the reality that abusers and bad faith actors are taking advantage of them. It's a terrible fallacy. Cosby didn't need to trick anyone into liking him back then.

The king believed that Wu got embarrassed because of his advice not panning out and would sabotage the state to make it look like they couldn't succeed without him. The charge was that he was acting on his own interest, not the state's.