Ignore the dinner mockery entirely and focus on this week's FBI search of Ohio voter registration offices and the DOJ's motion to drop the Halkbank sanctions-evasion case—both have actual rule-of-law implications.
This is textbook distraction spectacle with near-zero constitutional impact. A $1M fundraising dinner is legal and routine for wealthy politicians, scoring minimal on corruption (1/5) only for optics of access-selling. However, it scores extremely high on distraction metrics: highly meme-able mockery content, maximum media friendliness (easy outrage panels), massive coverage-to-substance mismatch, and strategic timing during a week with FBI voter office searches, judicial blocks on executive orders, and DOJ case dismissals.