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I think most commenters here are missing something.
Working at the White House is like having a NY Times best selling book, or playing on a World Cup team. It doesn't matter that the book was #10 for one week, or that the team lost in the first round.
Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Scaramucci
She's going to land on a bed filled with $1,000 bills
Money won't buy you happiness, Corruption Barbie.
Oh, for sure. Their souls are so black that Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights.
But I wonder sometimes - if they are too stupid to not understand that money isn't happiness, does it matter? If they wake up every day in that bed of money thinking, "Oh, I'm so glad. Integrity is for those woke morons. Their tears were the perfect seasoning for my caviar, creme fraiche and blini breakfast. Truly I made all the right choices, and was chosen by God," then does it make a difference?
I know we're probably not even putting them in a metal box in this lifetime, but dream with me for a moment: If somehow we were able to impose a punishment on them that included the duty to feel shame, we'd probably need to teach them what shame is before they could even serve their time.
Okay, that got a gut laugh out of me, I'll have to use this one later on.
A bit esoteric for these plebeians and ne'er do wells.
You can't make a blind person see.
The guy who wrote Trump's 'Art of the Deal' for him made out like a bandit, and could have ridden the gravy train for years. Instead he left Trump's orbit as soon as he could and spent the rest of his life regretting his choice to get involved in the first place.
When they are punished, they'll tell you that it's politics, and you'd have done exactly what they did.