"Let him do it" in the sense that if they'd told anyone about it, he had the money and power to make them pretty miserable. That's hardly consensual in any mean

"Let him do it" in the sense that if they'd told anyone about it, he had the money and power to make them pretty miserable. That's hardly consensual in any meaningful sense. And four years absolutely could destroy the planet (or at least the parts all the humans are living in), under the right circumstances. Putting a hothead like Donald Trump in charge of the American nuclear arsenal was the height of irresponsibility.