The stream heading for the exit continues, and with an age-old story …
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks resigned Thursday, becoming the latest top immigration official to leave the Trump administration in recent months.
“It’s just time,” Banks said in a Fox News interview announcing his resignation. “I feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure, most disastrous, most chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen.” [MS NOW]
No, not self-congratulations. I don’t know if his work is that good. No, it’s this, from conservative Washington Examiner:
The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees who spoke with the Washington Examiner.
Banks “bragged” to colleagues while in his previous management role at Border Patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand over the course of a decade. Banks’ behavior was said to have been investigated by Customs and Border Protection officials twice, including last year, but the investigation ended abruptly while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in office, leading to more questions.
A sordid oldie, an official thinking they could brag about something illegal without backlash. Nothing really special, I’m sure Democrats do this, too, but at least they’re discrete.
In a way, him caught and out of government means chances of blackmail diminish greatly, so I suppose we can be grateful for his braggodocio.
But, as I said, nothing all that special.
