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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBorowitz Report : Trump Picks El Chapo to Run D.E.A.
Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by naming Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapos tremendous success in the private sector showed that he has what it takes to shake things up at the D.E.A.
Trumps appointment of the former drug lord surprised many in Washington, in no small part because acrimony between the two allegedly prompted El Chapo, in 2015, to put a hundred-million-dollar bounty on Trumps head.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-picks-el-chapo-to-run-d-e-a?mbid=social_facebook
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Borowitz Report : Trump Picks El Chapo to Run D.E.A. (Original Post)
jaysunb
Nov 2016
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Yes, he knows a lot about the DEA
GP6971
(31,153 posts)2. I just have to K & R this! n/t
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)3. HA!!! It is so true, it hurts!
moondust
(19,981 posts)4. It fits.
Lawrence O'Donnell opened his show tonight with a segment about the U.S. now being a banana republic "where the President-elect fluctuates between the comical and the terrifying." El Chapo is a perfect fit for the Trump administration.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-pushes-baseless-voter-fraud-claims-819545667771
rpannier
(24,329 posts)5. He's more qualified than half of il Douche's picks
that's the sad part
DFW
(54,378 posts)6. El CHapo would certainly be no LESS benevolent in his field than some other Trump picks
Sessions as AG, the names proposed for Education, EPA, etc. I'm surprised he didn't pick Allen West for Secretary of State.
This is biting satire at its best, because it's so very conceivable.
Mendocino
(7,488 posts)7. For Interior,
he is considering noted wolf killer and snow machine racing groupie Sarah Palin. Really!
Gothmog
(145,225 posts)8. I love Andy Borowitz