Chad Chronister has withdrawn his bid to become head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) after being nominated by President-elect Donald Trump.
He says that it is because there is still work to be done in his own county where he is currently sheriff. That’s probably not the real reason.
Trump supporters were outraged by this appointment. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he ordered the arrest of a pastor for holding services and Constitutionalists have not forgotten.
Among the President-elect’s other nominations, many are also worried about the appointment of Charles Kushner as the ambassador to France. Kushner was pardoned by President Trump while leaving office in 2020 after he “was convicted of preparing false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission in 2005.” Kushner did in fact serve time for this so the pardon only erased it from his record.
Still, the President-elect had promised not to hire members of his own family this time around so how did this guy get this role? Do we consider in-laws family?
