@ScoWer22 i did think on that and it occurred to me that maybe Trump (or any other president) might have guns to their heads, or even a limited amount of political capital that defines their priorities after their stated and current concerns are on the table.
Assange and Snowden have already clearly demonstrated that revelations of government fuckery of any scale (DAS,recently) do not matter at all in terms of changing people's minds, beliefs, or behaviors except on the most irrelevant margins.