He's likely setting up to Pardon himself... for anything and everything.

"wasteful and ineffective," though without citing evidence to support those claims."

That's actually their operating plan for all of Government.

Because Gov is of by and for the People, not the current Oligarch masters who basically got their Coup when Citizens United made them Super Citizens; money as speech means those wid' da' money gots all da' speech.

Little Marco indicated yesterday that we are basically through trying to make peace in Ukraine, and that we have bigger wars to prepare for in the 'Indo-Pacific', apparently meaning with China.

Which is, of course, just an excuse for Trump's utter failure to do anything at all about ending the war against Ukraine.

And he owes Vlad his bot help in the last two elections, so this will be like Tariffs; on again off again, and only making matters worse.

Russian Bots Roast 'Clown' Donald Trump After Putin Comments

To be fair, Trump has been werking with Russian Oligarchs almost as long as Putin has; they supported Putin's rise as a second rate KGB agent they thought they could control, and they financed Trump when no western banks would touch him.

They also did, and continue to, launder money through real estate purchases from Trump.

So, Trump is bought and paid for, and plans to stay that way.

They shoulda had silencers.... but hey, that was some pretty poor marksmanship out there, just sayin'.