Yes, the Deep State has gone out of their way to say “nothing bad happened.” What if a Muslim spy from Pakistan was a paid IT person with access to all the Democratic Party House computers? Could our intelligence community ever admit that happened or would too many political heads have to roll?
It smells like a cover-up.
This is a form of lying called copping to a lesser plea... yes he stole electronics in an organized way with the knowledge of elected officials...but please ignore the larger security threats and just focus on the petty theft.
He wasnt fired because of the mortgage fraud.
He was running a server farm at one of his rental properties.