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This hasn't ever made sense to me. The "bribe" in this case was to help her get reelected by donating money to her campaign in return for dropping an investigation into Trump U. ripping off their clients. Unless you conclude the investigation would have been baseless and an attempt to harass an ethical business that in fact did nothing wrong, it's impossible to look at the transaction and conclude only Bondi engaged in unethical or illegal acts. They are both party to both acts - the bribe and stopping the investigation.
The fact that there are people willing to bribe politicians to get them elected obviously means that people willing to be bribed...... get elected. The system awash in money directed at corruptible politicians means those running who are not willing to be corrupted face giant obstacles to getting and staying in office. And if a businessman is expected to look out for his own selfish interest by making bribes to politicians to get results, then why do we expect anything differently from those accepting the bribes, who are also looking out for their own selfish interests and the interests of their family?
My possible explanation is that you see government as the good guys and I see business as the good guys.