Working off his instructions of his owners and their appointed colonial executive JoeBama...from the chi-com Politburo and Xi Ping.
The best way to view the current US government at these levels is that we are being run by Communist China, and it is continuing the insurgency through their proxys— who pretend to be citizens of the USA. It makes the task ahead quite focused, and divides all the interests into an internal enemy of Collaborators, and Patriot Constitutionalists.
The collaborators think they are empowered, as mitch does— and they can “weed” out the “extremists” (Trump supporters and real Republicans) from the “mainstream” (Leftist Fascists of Deep Government and their paymasters in Beijing).
Communist China took over Tibet basically by buying off Tibet’s senior officials. So there was very little resistance and no real fight when the People’s Liberation Army crossed over the border. The war of conquest had been won before the first shot was fired.
The CCP is using a variation of this strategy by buying off corrupt American politicians like McConnell and Biden, and through the collaboration of “American” multinational corporations like Apple that will do anything to keep access to Chinese manufacturing. This is the other coup that is going on right in plain sight.