Drug trafficker Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is escorted to a helicopter by Mexican security forces at Mexico's International Airport in Mexico City on Feb. 22. (photo: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg)
28 November 16
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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.
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
that’s because he’s Mexican and in jail, and Mitt Romney is neither.”
The appointment of the former drug kingpin is far from
a done deal, however, as associates of El Chapo report that he is
“concerned” that being a member of the Trump Administration would be bad
for his brand.
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