>The rest of it is all "stands to reason" and "take it from me" posturing AFAICS.
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>In particular, the attempt to link it to the New Jersey corruption is invalid: that one involved use of position to pressure United to re-introduce an unprofitable "Chairman's Flight" for his own convenience. IOW a counterintuitive result was achieved by misuse of position. This contrasts with the HRC examples where the only "favor" granted would cause an international incident if they didn't do it.

What is not counterintuitive about the notion that someone who might benefit from contact with that woman is giving that foundation millions of dollars because of an irrespressible urge to benefit mankind?

That's what investigators do.
They look at things that don't make sense.