There are a good amount of accounts that have lauda on their trust list who belong to a single account farmer and I know that some added lauda to their trust lists before he was ever anywhere near DT because that is when they were last logged in (others I cannot rule out adding lauda after he was added to DT because they logged in after lauda was added, but they nonetheless belong to the same person).

I don’t think there is any argument to say that there is not consensus that lauda should be anywhere near DT based on the very high number of high ranking, trustworthy people that have explicitly excluded lauda from their trust lists. (Plus the number of lesser known people that have also explicitly excluded lauda).