I suspect that they didn't think they needed to manufacture those sort of claims when they were sure that ORANGE MAN BAD would be enough.
But I do think that it's impossible to get into any position of power without corruption in the closet; whether the skeletons are their own and used as blackmail, whether they are created by the alphabet agencies as leverage, or they are wedded to Mammon and beg for monetised control.
The globalists don't want loose cannons they can't control, unless they too are used for a specific purpose and then discarded when the job is done.
