Distort, skew, etc... like PS

Very frustrating that AI doesn't seem to have a simple way to Control click a corner and drag to skew or distort... unlike Photoshop. Have faced this problem several times... right now going crazy trying to fit an image into a skewed frame
There must be a simple way to just select the corners of a bounding box and drag to the desired positions...

Play around with the free transform tool (keyboard shortcut E).
You get the same handles as with the selection tool with bounding box on, but you can do a lot more. Grab a handle before trying the modifier keys. (While you are clicked down on a handle, you can try different combinations of the modifier keys at will.)

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