The career criminal/conman/crook/grifter is making a blatant grab for the US Treasury, and getting rid of anyone who will stand up to him.

 Parisa Salehi was the kind of internal watchdog who had earned a strong reputation for digging up fraud, waste and abuse during her 15 years in government service. She had risen through the ranks at inspectors general offices at the State Department and U.S.A.I.D., eventually taking over internal investigations at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where her office reported saving tens of millions of dollars.

But last week, she got a notice that President Trump had fired her, effective immediately. The reason she was given? A vague line about the administration’s changing priorities, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Ms. Salehi was the latest casualty of Mr. Trump’s mass purge of government watchdogs, the investigators assigned to agencies across the administration who act as the eyes and ears of Congress and ensure taxpayer dollars are not misused.

Mr. Trump has fired or reassigned about two dozen such top investigators, and he has moved to defund an umbrella group, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, further weakening the system that supports robust oversight of government operations. The defunding meant, among other things, the shutdown of websites for dozens of inspectors general that publish reports for public review and hotline numbers where whistle-blowers can submit complaints.