Your claim was «He is de facto if not de jure more or less in charge of the US government.». If this is true, the opposite, i.e. «operates [..] semi-licitly on

Your claim was «He is de facto if not de jure more or less in charge of the US government.». If this is true, the opposite, i.e. «operates [..] semi-licitly on behalf or in service of, a government agency» can't be true. Cold reason decrees it from her awful throne. Talk as much fatalism about that fact as you please: it really must be.