"this has been going on at scale for at least a year." trump was warned at least twice. each time he directed lutnik to stop it. lutnik never did. so either lutnik went rogue or trump told him something else in private. republican congress would've buried it, but with the blue wave the deep state national security faction (rubio and bessent) blew the whistle.

seems pretty obvious that trump wanted growth at any cost and told huang he'd be never be investigated. seems pretty risky for huang and the c suite to assume they'd always have that level of protection.

and that's the best version, assuming corruption wasn't involved.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5922763&forum_id=2#50260315)