This is the sort of thing that would have been considered a legitimate scandal in the last Republican administration, and would have caused Fox News to chew its own foot off in the last Democratic one. The New York Times reports that Trump's Environmental Protection Agency chief, Andrew Wheeler, circumvented the agency’s California office and pretty much everyone else in order to put together claims on a "human feces" problem in California that Trump would quickly amplify in his pissant little campaign against the state in September. Yes, that was several dozen scandals ago.
The Times reports that Wheeler's claims were "put together by a small group of political appointees in Washington assigned specifically to target California, according to three current E.P.A. officials."
First off, no kidding. And second off, this marks Wheeler and fellow Trump appointees as explicitly using their government office to manufacture a political claim against California for the apparent sole reason that Donald, fuming hate-pustule, wanted to attack California and needed fodder for it. (This is in the midst of Team Trump attempting to wipe away the state's Clean Air Act authority, a move that had been long sought by industrial lobbyists. It wasn't only Trump's personal animosity toward a state that had rejected him in 2016 that motivated his actions; California has long been held up as a supposed hellhole by corporate interests and their check-cashers.)
All right, fine. Throw it on the pile. Team Trump has explicitly politicized the EPA, turning it into a manufacturer of campaign fodder. Add Wheeler to those who need to be tossed out of office by Congress, not that there will be any time for it. Republicanism is little more than the basis of a crime syndicate at this point.