Writing in The New Yorker this Thursday, Eric Lach says that while Steve Bannon’s arrest for fraud connected to the “We Build the Wall” campaign caught a lot of people in the political sphere off guard, we should have seen it coming.
“It has been asked, repeatedly, whether the grifts of Donald Trump and the people around him would ever catch up with them. On Thursday, they caught up to Bannon,” Lach writes.
Lach writes that indictments of Bannon and his cohorts raise questions about other members of President Trump’s inner circle. “We Build the Wall’s board members included Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state; Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder and a brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; David A. Clarke, Jr., the former sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; and Curt Schilling, the former major-league-baseball pitcher,” he points out.