FALLOUT: The rise and fall of the Podestas, Washington’s powerful political brother act. “Then John became chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, putting the Podestas in the crosshairs of the alt-right. In the middle of the campaign, John’s hacked emails led to ‘Pizzagate,’ a bizarre conspiracy theory about a child sex ring. Finally, and against all expectations, he lost the bitterly fought election. Now Tony’s work for a Ukrainian nonprofit group is part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, prompting the powerful lobbyist to resign from the Podesta Group, the firm he founded three decades ago.”