Washington, D.C., has become so toxic and corroded in recent years that it should be named an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site.

But President Donald Trump’s new crew has put on their hazmat suits and headed straight into the thick of it, with last week offering several examples of where the crew is hoping to clean up.

Since we’re talking about hazmat suits, let’s start with this.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced last week the bureau is reviewing the investigation into the bag of cocaine discovered in the White House in 2023. The Secret Service and the FBI sniffed around for a couple days, declared they couldn’t figure out who did it, and buried the story like it was spent plutonium.

Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, never bought the story. And why would he? Somebody brought a white powder into the most secure and important building in the world and the Secret Service and the planet’s greatest investigative body couldn’t find out who dunnit?

The case smelled from the start. This is where the hazmat suits come in. The Biden White House originally explained emergency vehicles being at the White House by saying a suspicious white substance had been found “on the property.” The idea? To leave the impression the substance was found outside.

The public didn’t get the truth until the website OpenMHz posted a radio transmission of D.C. Fire Department hazmat personnel revealing the field test indicated the powder was cocaine and that it was found inside........

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