They believe all the evil things about Hillary because of targeted lies, compounded on each other, for decades.
The core belief is thus a core truth.
Not once could such people ever take responsibility for accepting the roundly-proven lies that have created the fake version of the person in their minds. Not once.
Hence, Hillary did this to herself--not by being the person that I believe she is, because she isn't--but that doesn't matter because I believe the things anyway and that's only her fault; not mine or the dedicated team of lifelong assholes that invented this belief in my head.
That's how the GOP has operated for decades now.