At first, when We Build The Wall hosted a flashy event on May 30, 2019 near the U.S.-Mexican border, the Department of Homeland Security had no interest in participating.
I think were gonna need to clone Merrick Garland…
I think looking into literally any Trump-era effort or project this closely would find any veneer of legitimacy crumbling like a rotten log. They really didn’t even try.
Trump’s DHS was a national security threat.
We the public may never learn the full extent of the dangers we faced these past 4 years.
(Kobach himself was not among those indicted and has not been accused of any illegal activity.)
FUCK!!! 
Thanks for pulling the together TPM. This is the kind of reporting I subscribe for, not “republicans said stupid things on the tv today”.
There’s a lot of self-dealing, corruption and crime associated with the previous administration and we need to uncover all of it. We may not get the justice we thirst for against the former guy, but he was enabled all the way along and those enablers should be held to account. It doesn’t look like they’re very good at hiding their tracks.
Great reporting!
I hope one of Bannon’s associates has some useful dirt on him for another crime that wouldn’t fall under his pardon.
I’m thinking it’s possible a whole bunch of these grifting motherfuckers might actually go to jail.
Like anyone’s surprised.
And I’m pretty convinced that when the history of these times is written, it will be portrayed as being at least as, if not more crooked than the Gilded Age excesses. Of course, I’m still assuming the good side wins and we can bring the whole mob to justice…
Don’t know if you watch Stephen Colbert, but he asked viewers for suggestions for names to use in place of the T-word for the former guy and he’s been using them for the last few days:
Last night’s name was “Voldemoron.”
Articles like this are exactly why I kick in my $50 a year.
First…this shocking revelation was brought to you by the letter $ and the guttural noise “Duh”.
Second, everyone say hello to Faux News’ newest mindlessly hateful, hate-peddling, cultural resentment propagandist hate monger…
Yes, they’ve now hired him. Yes, that means The Federalist is finally decked out in its full KKKlan regalia…pretty much undeniable given the content of his rantings.
This is how a classic racketeering operation is orchestrated with the help of corrupt government officials. It deserves to be memorialized with a grand jury inquiry and the ultimate indictments.
Trump and his supporters always complained about imaginary abuses and victimization by the so-called Deep State, and yet they themselves endeavored to create their own nefarious, secret, and abusive Deep State frauds. Trump is a con man and a fraud. His supporters enable his criminal activities. All of this could be called “old news.”
Kobach was clearly in the middle of all of this, I don’t see how he avoided breaking the law, especially given his apparent lack of knowledge of the law. I hope to see the color orange in his future.
Are the revelations beginning to speed up. We may need a central site with good cross referencing tools in a short time frame.
In other “it couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow” news, Ted Nugent has coronavirus.