Comment by Terr_

> I do not know if he is conscious of it / it is a thought through strategy... or something else.

At this point speculation and "benefit of the doubt" is counterproductive, and I say that as someone who likes speculation and disassembling things to see how they work.

Recycling a recent comment:

> Trump-scandals kinda killed Hanlon's Razor for me.

> A miasma inseparably blurring the lines between malice and incompetence, lies and ignorance, culpability and insanity, condensing into a greasy alloy which is definitely some amount of evil yet not worth anybody's time to separate and assay.