I agree with your skepticism about the metric, but there’s a gigantic example to be found in the oval office…

Read the room, son! Like, I’m a nonviolent old lady and even I felt a momentary impulse to throw wrenches at blind people. Lotta lemmings with even more impulsivity than me.

Oh they’re in there all right!

Because the best way to find any such indications is to keep looking for them in all possible places? Yes they should have added “yet.” But investigating while attempting to reassure is standard practice in crises