Very advantageous position. Trump can crush any country's economy with a tweet and a tariff. Britain NEEDS USA in a bilateral trade agreement to survive BREXIT. Britain's political class NEEDS Trump to refrain from revealing the whole truth of Britain's interference.  Britain is needy, and will support whatever reasonable demand Trump makes, because we are "Friends". Trump wants to purge the DS and all of its machinations from the face of the earth. Britain (white hats) want the same. *From OPs referenced reader comment - "they need to suffer 10x the damages they've caused to our treasure, our race relations, our security, our immigration, our class divide, etc." * We don't want to destroy our valued "friends". They will be forgiven if they help Trump achieve his goals.