Trump's Lackey At Homeland Security

Demagogue and neo-fascist bigot Donald "Dominate The Streets" Trump has had a parade of Secretaries of Homeland Security, from John Kelly and Kirstjen Nielsen to Kevin McAleenan, all of whom eventually met with their unhinged boss' displeasure. Reports suggest that after more than three and a half years, Trump has found the authoritarian go-fer he wanted all along to impose his cruel and unAmerican policies without question, whether at the border or in the streets of American cities: Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf.

As this chilling Washington Post profile notes, Wolf brought no Homeland Security, law enforcement or military experience to the job, having been a mid-level lobbyist for the travel industry. But his lack of experience was greatly compensated by his willingness -- like corrupt Trump consigliere Bill "Low" Barr --  to serve his Dear Leader:

"Wolf’s journey from mid-level lobbyist to DHS staffer to the face of the president’s police crackdown on protesters whom Trump calls 'anarchists' has taken a roundabout path that says as much about the trajectory of the DHS under Trump as the person now running the department. The use of the DHS as an instrument of the president’s agenda — first at the Mexican border and now in U.S. cities — has alarmed many who have come to see the department as the enforcement arm of Trump’s 'Make America Great Again”'plans, and Wolf as his enabler.

After 3½ years, the president finally is happy with a DHS chief, according to White House aides. And while Wolf’s predecessors sometimes pushed back at Trump’s attempts to break rules and bend norms to fit his desired policies, Trump now has a DHS chief giving him the answers he wants.

'The president likes having someone who will tell him yes,' said David Lapan, a former DHS spokesman, retired Marine colonel and longtime aide to Marine Gen. John F. Kelly who worked closely with Wolf." (our emphasis)

Wolf had no compunction about following Trump's political order to stir up trouble among Black Lives Matter protests in Portland and Albuquerque by sending in Federal stormtrumpers, who engaged in brutal suppression and in pulling people off the streets and into unmarked vehicles. He also likes to have his picture taken at Trump's porous, vanity border "wall" -- that Mexico was supposed to pay for -- to impress Trump with his xenophobic, tough guy zeal.

Authoritarian regimes are rife with nihilistic toadies and sycophants who would commit the most unimaginable horrors to win the favor of their leaders and gain power. This regime certainly has one such hack in Wolf.

(photo: Kevin Lemarque/Reuters)