Game Theory.
Moves and countermoves.
"First lesson from the DC Swamp – Everything is about politics. It’s not about the law; it’s not about the judiciary; it’s not about what’s legal, or the illegality of behavior; only politics. These are not legal issues; the entities involved are not connected to legal or illegal application of laws as they relate to the rest of American society. …
They use the legal system to play out the optics and narrative of political battles for ideological wins and losses. …
The gamesmanship currently being pitched through the media is about political leverage. That leverage in DC is traded like baseball cards amid the upper tier of those who float in an entirely divergent orbit from everyone else. …
Changing and trading leverage is politics.
Establish enough leverage and you can break any law with impunity."
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/27/lessons-in-swamp-manuevers-trump-vs-clinton-vs-mueller-vs-sessions-vs-rosenstein-vs-comey-etc/comment-page-2/