Dana Milbank: Matthew Whitaker is steeped in time travel and Bigfoot. He's the right man for the job
Source: Washington Post
Matthew Whitaker is steeped in time travel and Bigfoot. He’s the right man for the job.
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
November 13 at 6:44 PM
My colleague Ruth Marcus writes: “The acting attorney general of the United States is a crackpot.”
As though that’s a bad thing.
Which it isn’t.
The “crackpot” bit is not in dispute. In addition to his exotic legal views and his lack of relevant experience, Matthew G. Whitaker was already known to have hawked hot-tub seats for a business that shut down this year after reaching a $26 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for defrauding customers. But that’s just the beginning of the crackpottery.
During the current U.S. attorney general’s time on the company’s advisory board, from 2014 onward, World Patent Marketing:
● Claimed that “DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist,” had a website selling Bigfoot paraphernalia and planned a celebrity event called “You Have Been Squatched!”
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Only a man steeped in time travel and Bigfoot could successfully sell the notion that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s inquiry is a “hoax” that should be shut down. In tapping, as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, a man with experience with hucksterism and conspiracy theories, President Trump has embraced his inner crackpot.
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