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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)In his first interview since being found guilty on all counts in his U.S. trial, the Mexican drug lord Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán called himself the victim of a phony witch hunt.
The former cartel leader made his blistering comments in a phone call to the television program Fox & Friends, whose hosts appeared surprised that he had somehow gained access to a phone and was able to get through to them.
It was a phony witch hunt, El Chapo said, of his trial. It was a phony, rigged witch hunt, and the charges against me were fake news and a disgrace.
Questioned whether he had worked in concert with other drug lords to bring narcotics into the United States, El Chapo said, There was no collusion. And there was no evidence of collusion, because there was no collusion.
But the former drug kingpin reserved his harshest words for the F.B.I. and its former director James Comey. Lying and leaking Jim Comey is a showboat and a disaster, he said.
Asked to give his impression of the American justice system, El Chapo said, I think its very bad when someone like me, who is running a business and creating jobs and helping the economy, is harassed and treated unfairly. I think its a disgrace and, frankly, very sad.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/el-chapo-says-he-is-victim-of-phony-witch-hunt
dlk
(11,513 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)Trump/Chapo in 2020.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Now Chapo/Giuliani 2020 is something I can get behind!
SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)Giuliani is much too corrupt to be on the ticket.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,865 posts)But then I might have to donate $130,000 to keep my wife from finding out.
moondust
(19,958 posts)How we supposed to tell 'em apart?
dalton99a
(81,392 posts)Aristus
(66,286 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)over 90% of inmates are innocent of any crimes.
bdamomma
(63,799 posts)Using that phrase which is pure lies and propaganda.
There are a number of phrases that should be eliminated.
Fake news
Witch Hunt
add more if you wish
blaze
(6,347 posts)At least Borowitz picked a title that I actually recognized as satire before I clicked it!
That's hard to do these days.