Roast

But he did it in a mild-mannered way.

And, yes, Mike Pompeo is complicit.

Rosenberg was Trump's first acting DEA administrator, an Obama appointee, who resigned after eight months because, he claimed (properly), Trump has no respect for the law.

The US Government Must Now Run in Spite of the President

What times we live in.

The acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration wrote to agency employees the day after President Donald Trump endorsed police abuse to “reaffirm” the agency’s principles in the face of what he said was Trump “condon[ing] police misconduct,” the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

In a memo marked “Global Distribution” and titled “Who We Are,” according to the Journal, Chuck Rosenberg (pictured above) wrote: “The president, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement.”

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He added: “I write to offer a strong reaffirmation of the operating principles to which we, as law enforcement professionals, adhere […] I write because we have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong. That’s what law enforcement officers do. That’s what you do. We fix stuff. At least, we try.”

Many police departments immediately distanced themselves from the remarks. On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump was joking.

  TPM

I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time they've used that excuse. ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Getting Out in Front of It

Let's see, in the last two days:

1) Judiciary Committee rebuke for threats to Mueller & Rosenstein;
2) Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff rebuttal of transgender tweet;
3) Head of Boy Scouts apology for inappropriate speech;
4) Denouncing by the Gainesville, FL, police dept:

I get that both of these police departments are lying, but they are distancing themselves from a president who talks like a thug.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 8/1:  The DEA has joined the list condemning Trump's remarks.