[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

He did, without being explicit. It's called plausible deniability.

"Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by others in an organizational hierarchy because of a lack or absence of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved in or at least willfully ignorant of the actions."

Trump relies on this concept a lot.

You'll never take back your country with weakness - Trump yesterday

Lets have a trial by combat - Giuliani yesterday

Unless he said "everyone storm the capitol" then people will cognitive dissonance themselves into oblivion rather than admit they could have been wrong about trump all along.