The Trump administration is rotten through and through.

The latest example is Julie Varvaro, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at the Department of Homeland Security, who frequented sites that allowed her to seek ‘sugar daddies’, wealthy men who would shower her with gifts. She was appointed to such a high level post in 2025 even though she was just 29 and had graduated from college just the year before.

Now one of the men who took her up on her offer and spent a huge amount of money on her said that her demands for money and gifts were insatiable, including that he provide her with a credit card in her name so that she did not have to keep asking him for money, and he reported her to the the government and she has been suspended from her post.

I cannot do justice to the sleaziness described in the report. You have to read it for yourself and while reading it, keep reminding yourself that the person behaving this way is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at the Department of Homeland Security, a very well-paying job that presumably requires some serious vetting, not some penniless intern.

If you have shameless profiteering right as the top with the Trump family, it is hardly surprising that rot will be found all the way down.