One of the most interesting revelations coming from books by people who worked for Trump or were in his inner circle is he didn’t give orders to do those outrageous and totally illegal ideas he ranted. He might have an idea of what he wanted done so he would yell, scream, and stomp around the Oval Office in front of people who could get that job done. They would then carry out his “directions” without getting direct orders and thus giving him deniability.

            Remember Trump’s call to the Georgia Secretary of State suggesting he find enough votes to make him the winner. He came up with an idea to put 250,000 regular army troops on the southern border. He didn’t directly tell the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to do it but had some of his sycophants push the idea which Esper rejected. He was later fired.

            Plausible deniability isn’t new for a President and Reagan is a great example of getting caught by “didn’t know”. Nixon tried but was too involved to use it. Trump’s plan was to never directly tell someone what to do. He just suggests it to a sycophant who commands it in his name. Putin keeps saying he had nothing to do with the deaths of his political opponents. The King and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia deny they had any knowledge of the murder and dismemberment of the New York Times reporter.

            It is two words for the three monkeys who saw no evil, spoke no evil, and heard no evil. A fourth monkey would have said it invented no evil.