So they cut the staffing of the agency - which deals with countering domestic terrorism - by 75% (down to just 20 people), and appointed a know-nothing to run it.

Either they’re just going to use him as a useful idiot so he can target political enemies and let him be a fall guy later on, or this is an example of letting the agency falter until it fails, so there isn’t a handle on domestic terrorists.
Probably both.

He looks like a comical villain from a cheap B movie with subtle porn

Take another picture – I know I can nail this smug eyebrow arch.

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Perfect.

I think that’s a requirement.