...he felt like he was betrayed and thrown under the bus.
Yup. That's the way "they" do things in this admin... Read history, all the regimes that follow this ideology do the same thing. No one is safe, no one (in their admiin, not talking about the general populace).
“Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.” – Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US Abolitionist Preacher