Since the November elections, there has been no shortage of tea and shade from Washington. Democrats now hold a majority 232 seats in the House of Representatives, which is a good sign that there’s more drama yet to unfold when the 2019 Congress commences. But Trump, not one to be outdone in the drama department, stole back the limelight the very day after the election with the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In case you don’t feel like it matters to you, or legit don’t know what that positions entails, let me explain. The Attorney General is in charge of the Department of Justice. In other words, those are the mother***s that will put a bitch in jail. And though individuals appointed to that role serve at the President’s discretion, the role requires Senate approval because it is, essentially, the nation’s top lawyer. Everyone had been expecting Sessions’ exit sooner than later, but the fact that Donald Trump forced him to resign the day after the election only to appoint close ally Matt Whitaker to take his place shows that Trump is making a move to surround himself with loyalists. Let alone that Matt Whitaker was only part of Sessions’ staff and not a Senate-confirmed member of the DOJ leadership, Matt Whitaker has serious baggage from his previous statements and business dealings. An example? Making hateful statements about the LGBT community of brave military servicemembers, implying that queer military families are causing a burden on military chaplains. Statements he’s made publicly denouncing the Mueller Probe (an investigation that he will now oversee) and his embroilment in a now-defunct company that was forced to go out of business by the feds have also raised eyebrows from people in his own party. A real winner, Whitaker has now become Trump’s latest display of the putting-idiots-in-power syndrome.

Just to wet your palate a little bit with the level of fuckery Whitaker has been involved in, let’s discuss Senator Matt Mccoy. Mccoy was the first openly gay member of the Iowa General Assembly at the same time that Whitaker was U.S attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. What follows is a textbook example of the sheer and utter madness that happens when the justice department is placed in the hands of fundamentalists. Mccoy writes an article published by Politico, where he recounts the charges that were brought against him by Whitaker, including robbery and extortion. The basis of the charges was a tape that was recorded, without Mccoy’s knowledge, in which Mccoy is heard arguing with a former business partner about going off on his own and breaking their partnership. The FBI presented the tape to Mccoy and eluded that it was to be used to prove that he was using the power of his office to threaten the former business partner, amounting to extortion. Mccoy referred the FBI to the forms that he was required to file and submit as a citizen legislator, explaining that the dispute with the former associate had more to do with his state Senator position, which requires him to have other employment because the work is less than one-third of the year. To make a long and messy story short, after the last-minute gag reveal that Whitaker was paying the lead plaintiff to testify, the jury acquitted Mccoy in less than 25 minutes. 90% of federal cases like this one result in a conviction, which is relevant because it goes to the utter foolishness on Whitaker’s part. “But, like, why would he do that?” In case you haven’t already figure it out, it was because of Mccoy’s open M2M proclivities.

Mccoy thinks that Whitaker saw him as a trophy that he would offer up to the political class of the evangelical right as a testament to his aggression toward the only homo in the local government. Ooooh, she came like that?

She did.

Whitaker has also expressed his vision that judges in the United States should follow biblical law, and that they should use the justice system to honor god . Guess who else wants that, The Taliban, Isis. So here we are with an acting Attorney General who has a real beef with the LGBT community, appointed by DonaldTrump even though the Attorney General succession should be the person who follows in the chain of command and was Senate-confirmed already or Rod Rosenstein in this case—who Trump Hates.

Matt Whitaker’s appointment to that role raises all kinds of legal questions and there are already lawsuits and congressional inquiry on the horizon. Basically, if being Attorney General is contingent on being Senate-confirmed, does anything he says or does really matter? Hopefully not. But Trump has a diehard loyal fanboy just a stones’ throw away running the DOJ and guess who else is also on the DOJ’s agenda…Trump himself with several investigations into the Trump Organization. When we think about why Trump absolutely wants a grip on the DOJ, just think of the New York Times report that explains that Trump has essentially been committing tax fraud over the years to increase his and his father’s wealth. With a loyalist like Whitaker, investigations into his tax-evasion and alleged role in the 2016 Russian election interference can be hampered because he’ll control the budgets for those investigations. It feels better to think that there are people with actual power that are pledging to oppose Christian-Taliban-Whitaker’s wrongful appointment. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. This man has spoken loud and clear. Whitaker will use the DOJ to launch attacks on gay people, and he’s loyal to Trump. This guy is like 6 foot 7 or something insane like that. Too see him be toppled off that Attorney General Throne, gurl, will be some good tea to come.