Trump Picks El Chapo to Run D.E.A. reveals Andy Borowitz
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 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.
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.
When asked why Trump had readily offered a job to El Chapo while still mulling the fate of another former adversary, Mitt Romney, Conway said, El Chapo might not have voted for Mr. Trump, but thats because hes Mexican and in jail, and Mitt Romney is neither.
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