Clearly, the senior leadership of the Republican Party has created a legal protection racket to protect what's left of Donald Trump.
Half of them seem to owe their jobs to him, half of them are afraid of owing their jobs to him, and half of them want to become his VP, in hopes that the don will soon have one too many McBurgers.
Ghoulish doesn't quite capture it, nor do the obvious and apt comparisons with Mafia families. But they're a start.