Maybe it's a modified d20 roll to replicate a Deck of Many Things without a deck.
Mirshe
"We released them, it's not our fault they were found dead in a ditch a mile from the jail".
"Also we're just doing this to make HR happy, we're already gonna hire my nephew."
"You're only making it worse for yourself, you know."
And blessed it, and have repeatedly said that Trump is either blessed by God, or God's divine instrument.
But this isn't idolatry.
Yet. Private militaries have been a thing in the past, and I see no reason to believe they won't be again if state collapse continues.
Dredd isn't an American comic book.
Hitler actually sent material support to India during WWII (because keeping England bogged down fighting a revolution is obviously a good thing if you're trying to stop them from redirecting those efforts to either Japan or yourself). So there's that too.
I'm convinced they have only managed to get him to take these tests by telling him they're to measure his IQ, and that's why he keeps bragging on them. He keeps talking about his "perfect brain" like he's a second grader that just aced an arithmetic test.
You forgot that "golfing with clients" and "dinner with clients" and "yacht party with clients" are also work for these people.

The issue is then we get Vance, who's nakedly for sale to whomever gets him more power. Yes, he's got the charisma of a used napkin, but he doesn't need it by now - the SCOTUS has decided that the President can simply rule by decree, and any approvals will simply be nodded along because the GOP is opposed to TRUMP, not to fascism at large.