Something you may have picked up on over the the past year and a half, particularly in the past few months, and especially in the past 24 hours, is that virtually everyone associated with Donald Trump is a crook. Yesterday alone, so many people connected to the president found themselves in legal trouble that you might have missed one! In addition to former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight criminal counts, including tax and bank fraud; and former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight counts of tax evasion, lying to a bank, and campaign-finance violations, which he said were committed “in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office”; one of Trump’s earliest backers was accused of routinely using campaign funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle he couldn’t otherwise afford. Naturally, Republican Representative Duncan Hunter was a founding member of the “Trump Caucus” during the 2016 campaign, and the second member of Congress to endorse Trump. (The first was Representative Chris Collins, who as we know, was indicted on insider-trading charges earlier this month, though he has denied wrongdoing.)

According to federal prosecutors, Hunter and his wife, Margaret, engaged in wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign-finance violations, and conspiracy, while “convert[ing] campaign funds to personal use.” That personal use allegedly entailed, among other things:

A 2015 family vacation to Italy at a cost of more than $14,000;

A spring-break trip to Hawaii for $6,500;

A $3,700 jaunt to Las Vegas and Boise;

Meals at fine-dining establishments and fast-food restaurants alike;

Personal items from Costco ($11,300), Walmart (over $5,700), Barnes & Noble, Target—where Margaret dropped $300 in a single visit on “a tablecloth, three square pillows, a three-brush set, a metal tray, four temporary shades, four window panels, a white duck, two Punky Brewster items, a ring pop and two five-packs of animals”—and Michael’s craft store;

Clothes for the couple, which prosecutors say the Hunters misrepresented by, in one instance, buying items at a golf course so they could tell the campaign treasurer the money was spent on “balls for the wounded warriors”;

Past-due family dental bills;

A $2,000 birthday gift for a family member to attend a Pittsburgh Steelers game; and

A three-night, $1,000 stay at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa, and Casino for a “personal ski trip.”

The congressman is also accused of demanding that his wife be made a paid campaign manager, allegedly telling his treasurer the family “needed the extra money that would come from her salary.” (According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, the couple overdrew from their personal bank accounts more than 1,100 times in seven years, leading to $37,761 in “overdraft” and “insufficient funds” bank fees.) When Hunter’s campaign came up short on cash at the end of 2012, and the treasurer informed the representative they would not be able to pay outstanding bills, Hunter reportedly told the aide he could easily raise between $11,000 and $15,000 from campaign donors before the end of the following month. And speaking of the campaign treasurer, who clearly had a hunch something fishy was going down: when the aide told the congressman in December 2010 that he was not allowed to use campaign funds “for a leisure outing at which the discussion occasionally focuses on the campaign,” Hunter allegedly asked if the treasurer was “trying to create some kind of paper trail” on him, which is totally something an innocent person would ask. (When the staffer threatened to resign, Hunter reportedly swore he would tell his wife to lay off the campaign credit card and “put it in a safe place.”)

The Hunters, who’ve clearly studied at the Donald Trump Institute of “Fake News!” and “Witch Hunts!” have said through a spokesman that they believe the indictment against them is “purely politically motivated.” That might be more (but not entirely) believable if the decision to indict hadn’t been made by an attorney general appointed by Jeff Sessions last year. Earlier this year, while the investigation was still taking place, Hunter told KGTV-10, a San Diego television station, “There was wrong campaign spending, but it was not done by me.” His lawyers said around the same time that “any mistakes were made they were strictly inadvertent and unintentional.” People inadvertently use campaign funds for trips to Italy and Vegas all the time, O.K.? One would assume now that Hunter, who was stripped of his committee memberships by Paul Ryan on Tuesday, has joined the elite squad of Trump-era Republican crooks, his chances for re-election have diminished considerably. But considering that a conviction is now a veritable badge of honor in G.O.P. circles, and that Hunter’s margin of victory in 2016 was a whopping 27 points . . . maybe not!