He was MORE than happy to keep his mouth shut during the campaign.
Which provides excellent insight into his real character...
The mumbling, ice-cream eating octogenarian fraud has served his purpose as a meat puppet & is now a liability. The media have spent too much of what little credibility they have remaining protecting him and voters aren’t buying it anyway.
Who knows what the ruling elite will do next to fill his seat but obviously they’ve decided to leave him twisting in the wind.