They never thought they'd be investigated because of the closed financial system with no insight for international countries!
DJT gets elected.
Starts building up MIL force.
Allies up with Russia/Putin, strikes some sort of deal with him.
Allies up with Xi. Strikes some sort of deal with him.
Iran was always saved for last.
Russia and China start releasing this financial corruption info - especially since the EO was signed re: corruption + US taking freezing all assets of corrupt individuals.
How many of these people had properties etc. in CN - entire cities were built from what I know, for DS folks to move to upon Nuke war.