Lock me down, sexy.
Whatever. It's back to 2014-level expectations and mentally preparing to soon be an empty seat at the table.
They knew they'd be caught, but realized at this point that the "sting operation" encompassed every god damn bit of the government and they can get away with it even after being completely exposed. Would it have been so hard to position a few non-corrupt officials so someone could have wrapped this up? Fuck.