Sentence for an Influence

Wherever you hear of betrayal of the nation to foreign powers and foreign influence up to and including the solicitation of foreign interference and foreign manipulation of a domestic election for personal political gain, replace "foreign" with "corporate" and know that whether or not anyone is above the law or whether or not any of that is precisely what something called "the founding fathers" were afraid of, legal is the lie that is lobbying, and so quaint the concept of quid pro quo, which makes infidelity to the hallowed institution of democracy central to article I.