It seems like just a few days ago that we wrote about an effort by certain senators to grift millions of dollars out of the Treasury as “compensation” for Special Counsel Jack Smith looking (rightfully, we should emphasize) at their phone records as part of his investigation into Trump’s January 6 attempted coup.

That’s because it was just a few days ago that we wrote about this. In the Trump era, the amount of grift, chicanery, legerdemain, jiggery-pokery, crookedness, and flat-out hanky-panky being used by Trump allies to suck all of America’s money out of our Treasury like a Galactus-sized Roomba is so vast and so constant that we cannot keep up. Oh, we wrote about one scheme on Monday? Well, now it is Saturday, a dozen new schemes by Trump insiders to clean out America’s bank accounts have emerged, and there will be several more by the time we finish typing this sentence.

Here is a big one, courtesy of ProPublica, which is doing some of the best journalism of the Trump era. It involves Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, a Republican consultant who worked on her last campaign for South Dakota governor, and a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign from DHS that skipped the federal government’s normal competitive bidding process because the agency deemed it part of the “national emergency” at the southern border.

Oh, did we mention that the Republican consultant, Ben Yoho, is married to fascist Chatty Cathy doll Tricia McLaughlin, who serves as Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS? Well, consider it mentioned.

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The next president is going to walk into the Treasury and find it resembles a bank vault post-heist. Even the copper wiring might have been ripped out of the walls and flown down to Mar-a-Lago.