Needless to say, this is not the kind of narrative a proud man like Trump prefers. So, he did what he always does on stuff like this: Deny it, no matter how ridiculous that denial might be.

“Nobody disobeys my orders,” Trump assured Monday morning at the White House Easter Egg Roll.

How wrong he is. Let us count the ways.

The Mueller report includes many instances of aides declining to carry out Trump’s orders; The Washington Post’s James Hohmann recapped them on Friday. But it’s worth running through which ones actually involved orders that aides disobeyed. (For the purposes of this post, we’re not including mere suggestions, such as when Trump pressured then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to un-recuse himself and when Trump urged then-FBI Director James B. Comey to take it easy on Michael Flynn.)

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Toward the bottom of the list, we have also added previously known incidents of top aides declining to carry out Trump’s orders.

The list: