OAN Staff Abril Elfi
6:07 PM – Tuesday, December 3, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator pick has announced that he will not be accepting the job following backlash.
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On Tuesday, Hillsborough County Sheriff, Chad Chronister, stepped down just three days after being nominated.
“To have been nominated by President-Elect Donald Trump to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime,” Chronister said in a statement.
“Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration,” the veteran cop added. “There is more work to be done for the citizens of Hillsborough County and a lot of initiatives I am committed to…