None of this is surprising. It is, and has been my contention, that had Wayne Barrett not been dying in 2016, El Claudio del Mar-A-Lago would never have been elected. Power never reveals itself, or motives, until they’ve made their moves and you’re left to put your life back together. It is why every revelation against this administration* is met with a resignation, like tell us something we don’t already know.

He never replied.

And he never will.