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The "Read More" button was difficult to find, but the additional content there speaks to your point:
The office has been riven by leadership tumult over the last year. An earlier chief, Hampton Dellinger, was abruptly fired by the Trump administration and initially sued to get his job back before abandoning the court fight.
Trump selected as his replacement Paul Ingrassia, a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as a “extraordinary human being” and promoted the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged. A Senate panel was set to consider his nomination at a hearing last month, but it was pulled from the agenda.
Trump’s trade representative, Jamieson Greer, is serving as acting head of the office.
It's like me calling the SS a human rights organization
Indeed ...
I am curious how the decision to start this investigation came to be.
It was not clear what basis exists to contend that Smith’s investigations were political in nature
"independent political watchdog" led by a "right-wing" podcaster is just a right-wing entity. Geddafuckouttahere!
Oh this is rich coming from Mr. Insurrection
Gee AP that seems like it's totally the opposite of what it actually is.
And yet you'll have a fine reason to say why it's still true.
Get fucked, AP.
I have reread the article twice and still don't understand why you're mad at AP at all.
Failing to put scare-quotes or an "allegedly" qualifying "independent," when every single honest journalist knows damn well that isn't true.
That.
“Bring it bitch, only one of us knows the law”.