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Sorry, but it's just not, unless you've got some type of crystal ball indicating that if each person voting for Gary Johnson was forced on pain of death to vote for either Hillary or Trump, that they would all to a man pull the lever for Donald Trump.
No, it is. Of course nobody has a crystal ball, nor is anybody a mind reader, but the notion that a big enough percentage of people who would even consider voting for a Libertarian candidate would have voted for an uber-liberal like Clinton over any conservative, to the point that it would work in her favor, is fantasy-like denial. We can pretend to be objective, but reality is that plausible deniability doesn't work in this scenario.
If we were talking a Ralph Nader-like third party candidate, then the point would be likely that a vote for Nader would benefit Trump over Clinton.