Department of Homeland Security
It took the better part of a year but the serious flaws (internal divisions, lack of competence, and a reliance on messaging) he mostly hid during the campaign are emerging now.
Emails were sent instead of picking up the phone. Riot gear was stuck in a locked bus. Less than 10 Capitol cops were trained to use “less-than-lethal” munitions.
“Forgive me, that has not happened,” Fox News’ Harris Faulkner said, seconds after setting up what seemed like a major victory lap for the former president.
Biden’s Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly blamed the previous administration for the challenges his department currently faces.
Biden will quarterback his own team, working with superb picks who are at once a symbolic rebuke to Trump and capable of the tough work of repairing the damage that Trump has done.
Pro-immigrant advocates say that the Border Patrol video violates a 2001 law because it “contains blatantly false and misleading information.”
“Well, this is something that I have talked to [Attorney General William Barr] personally about,” Wolf said. “I know that they are working on it.”