Trump Picks DEA Chief

[Elixir]

From The New Yorker comes this breaking newsflash:

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—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 Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the D.E.A.

Trump’s 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 Trump’s head.

But, appearing on CNN, the Trump surrogate Kellyanne Conway said that the selection of El Chapo should surprise no one. “Mr. Trump always said that he would surround himself with the best people,” she said.​

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[Tom Sawyer]

I don't like Trump, but I have to say that this is a good pick. El Chapo has a deep knowledge of how the drug trade works and all the tricks and schemes that drug runners use to get their product across the border and launder the money from it. Plus, he was present when many of the illegal incidents which the people he'll be arresting have done, so that makes him valuable for providing testimony at their trials.

Hillary Clinton certainly would not have made such an inspiring choice.

 

[Deepak]

 

[Jarhyn]

I don't like Trump, but I have to say that this is a good pick. El Chapo has a deep knowledge of how the drug trade works and all the tricks and schemes that drug runners use to get their product across the border and launder the money from it. Plus, he was present when many of the illegal incidents which the people he'll be arresting have done, so that makes him valuable for providing testimony at their trials.

Hillary Clinton certainly would not have made such an inspiring choice.

Except for the fact that it's worse than the revolving door for normal lobbies. He has ties to former and current drug lords and drug lords support prohibition because it increases their profit margins. Given his 'alleged' connections, he stands to profit by selective raiding of their competitors, and also to keep the prohibition ball rolling well into the future to maintain the current barriers to entry.