Tanboy is SOOOOO blackmailed.
John is becoming so completely soulless that I am now thinking he is being threatened with a family annihilation if he steps out of order. The globalists running the world are completely dead soul evil, so it may be more than just a threat to expose some degeneracy on record somewhere, it may be he has been told to go along or be eliminated. If these demons will incinerate a reporter, they will certainly not hesitate over a congress critter standing to defy them.