And beyond the family charity, there was the RICO investigation in New York, which could easily bring about Trump’s personal financial destruction—all those loan applications, all that potential banking fraud. “This is where it isn’t a witch hunt—even for the hard core, this is where he turns into just a crooked business guy, and one worth fifty million dollars instead of ten billion dollars,” said Bannon, ever on the edge of disgust. “Not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag.”

