Pretty sure Trump had NO IDEA of how DEEP the DEEP STATE and SWAMP are!
Oh yes he did. He said so at the outset of his campaign. As a NY developer he was quite aware that the biggest danger to a bankrupt project was all the folks who wanted a piece of the action for doing nothing productive. You only look at DC, money in an productivity out and you immediately know how big and corrupt the swamp is.
The details of how it happens are irrelevant. We have all been educuted on UkraineScam - aid to Ukraine that flows through US entities to ensure that litte aid actually got to the Ukraine and maximum dollars went into the palms of greasy american politicians. Like a public version of the Clinton Foundation and Haiti aid.