Alex Jones was just explaining that, often, the person being boackmailed is fully aware of it from the start. It’s like the price you have to pay to do business with them. It’s, in a way, both an initiation ritual into the club, and collateral to ensure you won’t double cross them.
Some of the participants may just view it as a price to pay for the wealth and power being offered to them. Others may actually enjoy it.
Is Q implying that Hunter cut some kind of deal with the patriots or is in some way cooperating with them?