You'll never see the equivalent of this today...President Reagan, Mastermind - SNL
It's too far fetched.
Why run somebody who is only going to give you one term?
A two term POTUS is the goal in modern politics.
What lengths they went through to get rid of 45.
JMO, YMMV
They were/are terrified of him. They would lose their seat on the gravy train AND THEIR FREEDOM. The corruption is 245 years deep in Washington. They know if their secrets were ever found out they would be walking dead men and women. Sexual perversions, pedophilia, drug use and abuse, graft, grift, kickbacks, embezzlements, bribery, and even outright murders are in that secret box they do not want opened, at all costs.........................