This is just continuing testing the waters, before boiling the pot the frog (you) is in. Testing what they can get away with now, versus what they will get away

This is just continuing testing the waters, before boiling the pot the frog (you) is in. Testing what they can get away with now, versus what they will get away with in the medium-term future. Classic psychopathic gaslighting. What they brag about doing to someone else in the past, you nod, and they'll do it to you soon enough. What will the lawyers call it though; bribery, or taxation?