This is how you normalize Presidential corruption: Slowly put it more and more in the open until everyone just shrugs that *of course* the President wants to use law enforcement for partisan ends.
The other part of this is persuading your followers that it's the other side that is profoundly corrupt. Your side was the victim of corruption for too long, you tell them, and now your side will "fight back" by doing it back to them even worse than they did to you.
Your corruption then becomes a positive: In a corrupt world, in which either they break the rules to hurt you or you break the rules to hurt them, breaking the rules yourself shows your strength. #trumpsworld
