I actually think at one level, like obviously Donald Trump, statement by statement, is a pathological

liar. I mean, he has no regard for the truth at all. But I actually think at the vibe level,

at the kind of brand level, that Donald Trump is actually painfully honest about the fact that he

sees government as a transactional endeavor. And And I guess he wouldn't call it corruption.

He just calls it like government.

But I think my point here is that in some ways,

that does a little bit of a favor in the sense that no one can deny it anymore.

Hello and welcome to why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

I saw an item in the news today that I found kind of amusing.

It's about the FBI director, Cash Patel, and he's dating a woman who's like a country music performer who lives in Nashville, Tennessee,

and she gave a performance at State College, Pennsylvania, which of course is where Penn State is.

And there's public flight records of all the flights, and someone very smartly noted that a plane that was registered to the FBI was in State College and then flew to Nashville after the performance.

And it was like, oh, that's Cash Patel's girlfriend. And he's flying her back to Nashville after her

concert on a government plane. And this was in the same day that there was this news that multiple

Trump administration officials have taken over the houses of military officers that are usually used for military officers so they can live in them.

And at some level, it's like, we were talking about this today on my editorial call.

Somehow the plane is like this crystalline example of corruption that just feels like an easier story to tell than just the avalanche of corruption, unlike

anything we've ever seen of the last few years, where I feel overwhelmed by the story,

it can be hard to conceptualize, it's happening at many different levels, it's happening at

such a level of abstraction. It's also happening at such a high dollar level that it doesn't

seem real, like, oh,

$3 billion in crypto here, and they're going to sell the UAE these chips that they say they

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