Ever since she returned to the White House this spring as a sort of messaging-savvy white knight, endeavoring to save the West Wing from its decaying narrative as a post-Trump bridge to sanity and respectability, many inside the building have been speculating about Anita Dunn’s endgame. After all, she’s one of the most connected and sophisticated operatives in town. Her firm, SKDK, runs a disproportionate number of races and counts as clients AT&T, the American Clean Power Association, Lyft, Melinda French Gates’s Pivotal Ventures, Pfizer, Salesforce and Reddit, to name just a few. She was a star of the Obama White House and remains part of its highly-networked post-presidential constellation. She’s married to former Obama counsel Bob Bauer, and recently disclosed that they have an investment portfolio with assets ranging in value from $16.8 million to $48.2 million, according to CNBC’s estimate.

Was Dunn returning to the White House, many wondered, because she knew Joe Biden needed the help and that the connection, despite all the relevant disclosures, would inevitably be good for business after she swung the revolving door back to the private sector? Or was she gunning for a senior post, perhaps chief of staff after Ron Klain stepped down? Was it both? This is Washington, not the priesthood—people don’t do things for altruistic reasons alone.