It goes back long before the current regime. People may remember a certain cabinet secretary who ran her own exchange server in the basement.
It’s always fascinating how massive corruption is “whatabout”’d because someone years ago did something stupid.
Humans generally find "food safety expert sickens guests with tuna salad he left out overnight on warm countertop" to be a far more damning charge than "fire safety expert sickens ... warm countertop".
Dig up a live mic catching Hillary calling the IOC a bunch of self-serving scum just as Obama was begging them to award the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, and we might call it comparable.