George Bogen hadn’t done anything wrong; he had simply attended a friend’s wedding in Jamaica in 2019. He didn’t know that some six years later, a picture of him among the other attendees at the wedding would appear on the internet, or that it would be seen by members of the second Trump administration. Or that someone would recall that Bogen had also attended the same friend’s second wedding in 2023.

Whether or not he knew that the groom at those two weddings, Miles Taylor, had published an opinion piece in 2018 critical of Donald Trump — then serving his first term as president — is irrelevant . . . or it should be.

But to Trump, no slight — no matter how small or insignificant — is irrelevant, or ever forgotten.

Or forgiven.

Because George Bogen — who had been serving as Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — was asked to step down from his post last week because of his alleged connection to Miles Taylor. [William Vaillancourt, Daily Beast, April 25, 2025.]

That’s right, folks . . . in Washington’s official circles, you are no longer allowed to choose your own friends. Donald Trump takes very seriously the adage that “the friend of my enemy is my enemy.” And he makes no secret of his unquenchable thirst for revenge.

This, then, is the moral compass of the man that more than half of America’s voters trusted to ruin . . . sorry, run . . . their country for them.

Happy yet?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
4/28/25