With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountable
‘Trump named Gaetz attorney general. The next day, Gaetz quit the Congress. The day following that, the House ethics committee report on Gaetz’s alleged sex crimes was scheduled to be released.’‘Trump named Gaetz attorney general. The next day, Gaetz quit the Congress. The day following that, the House ethics committee report on Gaetz’s alleged sex crimes was scheduled to be released.
Trump’s cabinet appointments are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance. The motive for naming his quack nominees is located in his resentments from his sordid first term for which he pledged retribution. He sees the US government in its totality as a bastion of his “enemies within”.
Each of Trump’s appointees is there to savage a target on Trump’s hit list. When he came to Washington he was a relative blank slate, despite hauling a baggage train of scandal from New York. Back then, Trump blithely spoke of getting away with shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. Now, it’s Pennsylvania Avenue, where six people died as a result of January 6. Trump has been in the business of making enemies of anyone trying to enforce the law.
Revelations of Hegseth’s alleged behavior have not elicited censure from Trump, but expressions of sympathetic support for the would-be #MeToo victim. “Mr Hegseth has vigorously denied any and all accusations, and no charges were filed,” stated the Trump transition response. Hegseth’s lawyerHegseth appears to Trump as the ideal man to purge the military. Trump’s transition team has drafted an executive order for a “” to remove any general or admiral “lacking in requisite leadership qualities”.
Trump recalls that his first impeachment was the result of a whistleblower complaint from an analyst from the office of the director of national intelligence, who filed a memo about a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in which he sought to coerce him into manufacturing political dirt about Biden in exchange for defensive Javelin missiles already approved by the Congress. “I would like you to do us a favor,” said Trump in what he insisted was a “perfect phone call”.
Trump also fired Dr Rick Bright, the director of the Center for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority in charge of vaccine development, for refusing to approve the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, which Brightwas one of several “potentially dangerous drugs promoted by those with political connections”.
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