Payoffs are a mafia-like feature of Kleptocracies. America is over. If democracy ever returns it will be different. Right now, we have followed the Soviet Union into oligarchy with a mafia-godfather-like ruler. It is not happening, it already happened. Which means restoring democracy, with the media soon-to-be completely owned by MAGA- may NEVER be restored. If it ever happens, it will not be what was. Democracy will be understood to be the enemy of the super-rich. Billionaires will be taxed into oblivion right off the bat. This is obvious….and it means they will not let it happen. We are on our own.