Right, but only Manfred is in the position to say so! I'd like him to say so! A big reason we're sorta fucked right now is that leaders of institutions won't do the slightest thing to push back against Trump. Not even denying something easily deniable!
That’s fair. We’ll see what he does say; this actually feels like a place where he could safely say, “We never really discussed this before Pete died. I think the President just got a few wires crossed.” Hope he does.
It’s much funnier if Manfred did have a deal with Trump when he wasn’t President though.