Comment on Designated Survivor: Did Kirkman Just Lie to the American People?

[...] Seth (Kal Penn) snoring on his office couch with the radio blaring. [...] Aaron (Adan Canto), still in his work clothes, unconscious on top of the covers on his bed. Kirkman decided that telling his citizens that the vice president was part of a vast conspiracy that tried to kill him and that they still don't know what the conspiracy is or who blew up the Capitol Building was a bad idea, so instead he decided to make up the lie that Peter and Beth MacLeish were having marriage problems that ended in her killing them both. When I become president, I can absolutely tell you one thing that I will never do: make a promise to my kid. Leo, step up and take care of your sister and let dad wipe terrorists off the face of the Earth. Alex (Natascha McElhone) was the biggest proponent of this, as she noticed her kids' lives were being ruined by heightened security and the snipers and mobile surface-to-air-missile pods set up outside their bedroom windows. The rich ladies of Big Little Lies can keep their Monterey oceanside views, give me a view of grade-A military equipment! The next time we see Jason, he's a sobbing mess on his couch, blaming himself for his son's death with the thinking that he folded in following his job's duties and it got Luke killed. The only problem is that he's in the early stages of grieving that involve wiping snot off your face with your silk tie and not the later stages which involve getting strapped with a gun and hunting down the people who killed his kid. After Leonard got leaked inside information about MacLeish's kill order on Catalan, Aaron admitted to the president that he was accidentally the leak when he told Kimble Hookstraten (Virginia Madsen) the info in last week's episode. Alex, why do you want to raise my taxes and cut the Meals on Wheels program?