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Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Panned in Washington, Thrill Many of His Voters
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 16, 2024Updated 5:16 p.m. ET | Michael Corkery, Isabelle Taft and Shawn Hubler

Posted on 11/16/2024 6:06:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

To his detractors, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet looks like a rogues’ gallery of people with dubious credentials and questionable judgment. His supporters see something different.

“It’s a masterpiece,’’ Eileen Margolis, 58, who lives in Weston, Fla., and owns a tattoo business, said of Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks unveiled over the past week. “If it was a painting, it would be a Picasso.”

A “brilliant alliance,’’ is how Joanne Warwick, 60, a former Democrat from Detroit, described many of the nominees.

“It’s pretty much a star cast,’’ said Judy Kanoui of Flat Rock, N.C., a retiree and lifelong Democrat who voted for Mr. Trump for the first time this month.

Democrats, and even some Republicans, worry that these nominees for top positions in government are inexperienced, conflicted and potentially reckless. But in interviews with almost two dozen Trump voters around the country, his supporters were more likely to describe them as mavericks and reformers recruited to deliver on Mr. Trump’s promise to shake up Washington.

In Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee for health and human services secretary, Mr. Trump’s supporters see a crusader searching for new solutions to chronic illnesses, not a conspiracy theorist promoting questionable and debunked ideas about vaccines and fluoride.

In Matt Gaetz, the nominee for attorney general, many Trump s

upporters look past the ethical investigation into allegations that he had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl and see a provocateur who is willing to punish the Democrats who unjustly prosecuted the president-elect. “I think it’s so crazy, and I love it,’’ Merrill McCollum, 60, of Bozeman, Mont., said of the nominees.

Ms. McCollum said she voted for Mr. Trump after becoming frustrated by bureaucracy, identity politics and the rising cost of living. She is excited by his appointments of people she sees as outsiders to...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: isabelletaft; michaelcorkery; shawnhubler
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 6:06:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Consistent with the NYT's view that our "representatives in Washington" have the purpose of representing and conveying the views and and agenda and orders of Washington to us.
2 posted on 11/16/2024 6:10:36 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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NYT, have you looked at Biden’s cabinet? STHU


3 posted on 11/16/2024 6:13:38 PM PST by Rodm
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bkmk


4 posted on 11/16/2024 6:16:04 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Gaetz is not confirmed the wrath of Trump should be unleashed on GOPe RINOs


5 posted on 11/16/2024 6:18:33 PM PST by A strike (death to taggers)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Most of his voters are thrilled and with the flak we are getting, we’re right over the target.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 6:21:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course they would and there lies the issue
The dc biosphere


7 posted on 11/16/2024 6:26:14 PM PST by blitz128
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Panned in Washington” pretty much tells you what’s wrong.


8 posted on 11/16/2024 6:34:38 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump,Vance and all of the cabinet picks. That’s what we need a Giant Huge Mural of ! Where are the street artist ?


9 posted on 11/16/2024 6:42:42 PM PST by cquiggy (Ck)
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Matt Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general, had been a subject of a sex trafficking investigation:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/matt-gaetz-trumps-pick-attorney-general-subject-sex-trafficking-invest-rcna180053

It seems that Matt Gaetz has been the subject of a fishing expedition by those who are threatened by his AG position (i.e. the elimination of stock trading by House members).


10 posted on 11/16/2024 7:30:34 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Americans didn’t like Joe Pedo’s pathetic picks either but the fags in the media mafia didn’t beat them to death.


11 posted on 11/16/2024 7:45:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The New York Times wants Trump to be like Biden and appoint sexual weirdos who dress up in women's clothes that they steal from women in airports. Anything less than that is unacceptable to the white liberal elites who run the Times. (Also known as 'our betters')
12 posted on 11/16/2024 7:50:43 PM PST by GOPJ (Offer illegals $2,000, free ticket home & place on list to come back IF they leave voluntarily )
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Isn’t it amazing how magic sex scandals always appear at just the right time to derail conservative politicians?


13 posted on 11/16/2024 7:50:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s like how they open the trunk of a mystery car and find thousands of votes, right at the last minute.


14 posted on 11/16/2024 7:56:07 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: A strike

Gaetz will be AG, period.

By confirmation or by recess, Gaetz will be in that AG seat for the first two years.

Even if the recess option were not live, do you seriously think the Senate jackals would rather DeSantis appoint Gaetz to replace the outgoing Rubio senate seat?

Snicker.

Suffice it to say, Gaetz will be in their grill daily, one way or t’other.


15 posted on 11/16/2024 8:01:37 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats, and even some Republicans, worry that these nominees for top positions in government are inexperienced, conflicted and potentially reckless.

And that's different from the biden administration just how?

It's like democrats complaining about the morals and ethics of Trump's picks in light of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton (just to start with).

16 posted on 11/16/2024 9:01:40 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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If u are a Republican law maker and do not approve Trump’s picks u need to be treated like how the left treats people who do not believe in their lies of global warming


17 posted on 11/17/2024 1:00:40 AM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kick that crackpot RFK to the curb and I’ll be satisfied with the rest.


18 posted on 11/17/2024 1:28:58 AM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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I'm not disappointed by a single one yet.

I've been doubting Trump's political acumen for the past two years. He's proven me wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME!

Godspeed, President Trump, and if these are the people you want, well, you know best.

19 posted on 11/17/2024 1:32:01 AM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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Kick that crackpot RFK to the curb and I’ll be satisfied with the rest.

The funniest thing about RFK Jr. was the call I had to make to my total libtard Masters Degree educator brother.

I love him, but I knew he was totally butthurt that Trump won. Like I said, he's a total libtard.

So, to break the ice after Trump's massive victory I mentioned, "What do you think about fluoride in the water?"

He replied, "WE NEED TO GET RID OF IT!!! IT'S POISON!!! RFK JR IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT!!!"

He then proceeded to educate me on how fluoridated water was never about health but rather on how to achieve a more efficient means to separate slag from iron ore during WWII mining processes.

I was taken aback. And then I realized how Trump won.

20 posted on 11/17/2024 1:41:21 AM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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