“Then, after he survived, they said oops, that was a clerical error and we would like our stock back”
They never wanted their shares back because they never sold them. The error was made in a 13-F filing not in an erroneous sell order.
If someone shorted 12,000,000 shares of Trump stock that information would have been visible in the markets.
look, I trust these people as far as I can throw them, which is not very far.