How a Deep State Bureaucrat Became Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Enforcer
Brendan Carr is pointing his MAGA flamethrower at Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and the American news media.
Not long ago a group of Georgetown University alumni found themselves obsessing over a curious bit of Washington gossip. Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump’s head of the Federal Communications Commission, was claiming to be a fellow member of the class of 2001. Lately, Carr had been everywhere in the news, butting heads with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, and appearing in feverish cable news segments. Yet no one in the alumni group remembered meeting him or even hearing about the guy back on Georgetown’s small, chatty campus.
To solve the mystery, they pulled out their senior yearbook and started flipping through. Among the sections devoted to Georgetown’s many political groups and student activities, there was no sign of Carr. But eventually they found what they were looking for. Toward the back of the book, in a slightly sorrowful list of unpictured students, was a single mention of his name. Sure enough, Carr had graduated by their side, largely unnotable and unnoticed.