It's right in front of your eyes you blind fool. It's called graft and corruption. It's the rats in the deep state eating out the US treasury so thoroughly that we are now running $1T deficits, needed to get new folks on the game to keep the Ponzi scheme against the taxpayer going. You thing Hunter's deal was unique? No. Quid Pro was in on it? Defend him you discover the two whistleblowers are corrupt up to their eyeballs. Think Shifty isn't corrupt? Everyone in the DC metro area is on the game. Everyone. And then tentacles spread out through the rest of the country and rest of the world.
It's totally "logical."
Read Peter Schweizer’s book “Secret Empires” for some powerful examples and explanations.