I dunno, maybe don’t avoid foia to get your grants back up and running. Whataboutism is truly unhelpful when someone is committing a federal foia related crime. The people violating foia from this admin should also be prosecuted.

I would even argue it would have been a net positive to the world to keep the funding going. But don’t commit a crime to then go ahead and do that. The kickback thing is dumb, the time they want is crazy, but his lawyer is gonna make short work of that, and he gets pardoned by the next guy.

Maybe next time don’t purposefully try to evade foia?