Indeed, it escalated quite quickly to somewhat under the table in the first term, but the second term hadn't already started and it was all out in the open. With some discontent (especially around the comic depicting it that got denied by the Washington Post, resulting in their cartoonist leaving to publish it), but nothing near the outrage there should be.
I would say that it is well deserved. They tried to indirectly bribe a president for pushing their own interests. The money is probably better funding Nigerian families than going to Trump's team.
take the down voteing as an afirmative.
I was just surprised to see that the Nigerean scam industry was adapting and thriving, as it seemed that they had lost there mojo to other countrys inspite of bieng very early inovators in the international telecom scam market.
Or perhaps this is a younger crew, and the more experienced Nigerian scammers are working as consultants for NK, Thailand, etc.
Or is a Nigerian abroad in Dubai/Singapore