Well, the holidays were fun, but now it’s time to get back to reality. Or, in the age of Trump, reality TV.

Some people seem to believe the Russian hacking of an American election in order to influence the outcome in President-elect Trump’s favor is a big deal. But Trump doesn’t, perhaps because it would make him look less puissant to have been given a leg up by Putin.

From the beginning Trump has said it might not have been the Russians at all. It could have been a 400-pound guy in a basement. Trump has also said the intelligence people got the WMDs wrong in Iraq, so they can never be trusted again. And he also may not like anyone being credited with intelligence except himself.

Trump has also declined to get his daily presidential intelligence briefing since they’re so boring and he’s a smart guy who can find out what’s going on from BuzzFeed and Breitbart.

National security alarmists like John McCain and former heads of the NSA and the CIA seem to regard Vladimir Putin having more to say about the outcome of an a presidential election than American voters is creepy. Several congressional investigations are planned.

But Trump blithely continues to pooh-pooh the whole issue. Though he hasn’t bother to examine the evidence, he remains unconvinced and now threatens to revamp the intelligence apparatus of the country, possible to shut them up or change the subject.

During his black-tie New Year’s fete for fellow billionaires at Mar A Lago, he paused briefly to say, “I know a lot about hacking. Hacking is very hard to prove. It could be someone else.” He also said he would address the issue soon because he has inside information unavailable to the CIA, NSA, and FBI. “I know things other people don’t know.”

He declined to identify his secret sources, as he has in other cases where he knew things other people didn’t know. Like President Obama wasn’t an American citizen, climate change is a Chinese hoax, Justice Scalia was murdered, and JFK was killed by Ted Cruz’s father.

Needless to say, the press was agog. Wow, Trump has intelligence sources that are superior to America’s zillion-dollar spy apparatus. Who are they? What does he know?

But perhaps the answer is hiding in plain sight. In his riff on hacking, Trump also said, “I don’t care what they say, no computer is safe. I have a boy who’s ten years old. He can do anything with a computer.”

This echoes Julian Assange whom Trump quotes as saying he didn’t get the DNC stuff from Russia or a state entity, and that “a 14-year-old boy could have hacked Podesta.” This may be getting a bit closer to the secret of the Hillary hack that helped win Trump the election.

Those who were paying attention may recall that during the campaign, Trump said if the Russians were hacking things, why didn’t they do him a favor and find Hillary’s 30,000 delated mails.

Isn’t it possible that Trump’s ten-year-old computer maven son, Barron, heard that and decided he’d help Dad solve a problem that even Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr., Eric and Putin couldn’t fix?

Henry II of England said, “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” And his barons rode off to Canterbury and killed Becket. Trump’s Barron apparently heard Daddy needed help hacking Hillary, sat down at his keyboard and went to work. Bang goes Wasserman Schultz. Bang goes Podesta. Bang goes Donna Brazile. Bang goes Hillary. More fun than “Call of Duty.”

It explains a lot. Trump doesn’t need the intelligence briefing on who hacked Hillary, it was Barron. The kid even managed to leave behind telltale signs that made it look as if the Russians were behind it so he wouldn’t get blamed.

Too far-fetched? Maybe. But what else, other than pathological vanity, explains Trump’s lack of concern about a major security breach, his refusal to terminate his Putin bromance, his scorn of the CIA , and threats to restructure U.S. intelligence? Only the possibility that he really does know better.

The 400-pound hacker in the basement was just Trumpian misdirection to shift suspicion away from the 68-pound Mini-Me in the gilded tower. Don’t be surprised if Barron, now nicknamed Robber Barron, gets a huge job with the new administration. Possibly running cyber-security.