It turns out that the witch hunt is actually catching a lot of real witches.

Let’s take a quick perusal through a few on the roster of Trumpist campaign officials, transition members, and administration appointees, to show their extraordinary honesty, competence, accomplishments and longevity (in case you didn’t get it, this is sarcasm).

·        General Michael Flynn – Advisor throughout entire campaign.  Named National Security Advisor.  Nineteen days later he resigned.  Has pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI, a felony.

·        Paul Manafort – Lobbyist serving interests of foreign governments.  Acted as campaign manager for 2 months.  Under indictment for conspiracy, money laundering, failure to register as a foreign agent and making false statements.

·        Rick Gates – Political consultant and business associate of Manafort, handling day to day activities of campaign.  Indicted with Manafort on same charges.

·        George Papadopoulos – Member of campaign’s foreign policy advisory panel. Pled guilty to making false statements to the FBI, a felony.

·        Sean Spicer – White House Press Secretary for 6 months, in which he made many false public statements.

·        Kellyanne Conway – Counselor to the President.  Uses the phrase “alternative facts” to cover lies, apparently violates ethics rules by endorsing Trump products and also violates the Hatch Act by endorsing political candidates.

·        Jared Kushner – the President’s son-in-law and senior advisor.  Failed to report over 100 contacts with foreign governments on his security clearance form, uses private emails for government business, told Michael Flynn to contact Russia and is allegedly currently awaiting indictment.

·        Jeffrey Sessions – Attorney General of the United States – lied about having contact with Russian officials, was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation and claimed he remembers nothing about anything.

·        Ivanka Trump – daughter and advisor to the President, advised him to hire Flynn as National Security Advisor and produces most of her fashion line outside of the U.S., which doesn’t do much for America First.

·        Mike Pence – Vice President of the United States, defunded Planned Parenthood in Indiana, stonewalled public records request, used a personal AOL email account to conduct official business which was compromised by hackers, opposes sex education and is a staunch opponent of efforts to expand LGBT rights.  He may or may not have known that Flynn lied to the FBI.

·        Stephen Miller – Senior Policy Advisor, who stopped the public from seeing a report that found that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues and made false claims that thousands of illegal voters were bused in to New Hampshire.

·        Steve Bannon – White House Chief Strategist, advised Trump to attribute the Charlottesville violence to “many sides.”  Resigned/fired in August, 2017.

·        Sebastian Gorka – Deputy Assistant to the President, whose doctoral degree is in question and is considered widely disdained in his own field, resigned/fired one week after Bannon’s departure.

·        Betsy DeVos – Secretary of Education – In 1997 conceded that her family contributes money to the Republican Party to buy influence, has no experience as an educator, and advocates private schools being allocated funds from the federal government.

·        Anthony Scaramucci – White House Director of Communications, gave expletive-laden interview, launched an online media venture that published a poll for people to vote on how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust, resigned/was fired after 6 days.

·        K. T. McFarland – Deputy National Security Advisor, admitted in an email that Russia had thrown the USA election to Trump, urged Flynn to contact the Russians, resigned/was fired after 3 months.

·        Sarah Huckabee Sanders – White House Press Secretary, purveyor of lies, deceptions, evasions, absurdities, delusions, distractions and photoshopped pies.

·        Others who resigned from their position – Reince Priebus, White House Chief of Staff; Katie Walsh, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Carl Icahn, Special Advisor to the President; Chris Christie – Chairman of the Opioid Commission; Boris Epshteyn – Assistant Communications Director; Keith Schiller – White House Director of Oval Office Operations, Stephen Shwarzman, Chairman of the Strategic and Policy Forum.

·        Withdrew from nomination for positions – Tom Marino – Drug Czar; Andrew Puzder, Secretary of Labor; Vincent Viola, Army Defense Secretary; James Donovan – Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; George Nesterczuk, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, James Clinger – FDIC Chair; Jamie McCourt – Ambassador to Belgium; Daniel Craig, Deputy Administrator FEMA.

·        *Actually quite laughable* Kathleen Hartnett White – Nominee for Environmental Quality Council Chair, cannot answer even basic questions about climate and science.  If you want a bit of comic relief, watch her struggle on you tube.

·        Rex Tillerson – Secretary of State, on the positive side, he called Trump an effing moron, but he will probably be fired soon.

·        Donald J. Trump- President of the United States – You can conjure up your own comments here.

And then, a few honorable Obama era holdovers:

·        James Comey – Former Director of the FBI, fired by Donald Trump for refusing Trump’s request to go easy on Mike Flynn and to halt the Russia investigation.

·        Sally Yates – Former Deputy Attorney General – fired for refusing to defend an unconstitutional executive order and for warning the Trump Administration about Michael Flynn.

·        Walter Shaub – Former Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, resigned in July because the White House set a tone from the top that ethics doesn’t matter.

Let the “witch hunt” continue.