“As for his business dealings, I know nothing about them, except it amounted to snake handling with the people and the politicians he had to do business with.”
Trump got fat in a snakepit. The ones who get fat in a snakepit are usually the biggest snakes.
You just as well give it up and join your plight with the baby-killers and sit back and enjoy your sanctimoniousness.
And to extend the metaphor, snake handlers are never snakes.