Oddly enough, the persecution proves the point Trump has been making all along.

And I think he finds validation in that. He also looks less and less like the bad guy and more and more like a flawed patriot who is being politically persecuted. Contrast with his four years in office where he was constantly picking fights with the media.

Trump is an uncontrollable threat to the governing order and that's become clear. He's also single-handedly exposed the degree of collusion between long-standing previously respected bodies.

It was a decaying enterprise in the first place, but he's just accelerated it.