Posted on 11/20/2024 11:08:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A Supreme Court prospect bowed out after it was revealed that he had smoked pot in his youth. Two candidates for attorney general were done in when it came to light that they had employed undocumented immigrants as nannies. A third cabinet nominee — a former Senate leader no less — was nixed for not paying taxes on a car and driver lent to him by an associate. Even mean tweets were enough to sink one nominee.
The legal and ethical issues surrounding some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selections for top administration jobs, not to mention their history of eyebrow-raising public statements, are far more profound than the kinds of revelations that have killed nominations in the Senate in the past.
What once passed as disqualifying for a presidential nominee seems downright benign in comparison to allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use by his attorney general pick detailed in a secret congressional report, a sexual assault accusation followed by a paid settlement for his choice to head the Pentagon and an acknowledged former heroin addiction by the would-be health secretary.
It was not so long ago that nominees for high-level jobs and even some of the more obscure ones had to be above reproach, to the point where a relatively minor tax issue could derail them. But times are evidently changing when it comes to nominations at the dawn of the second Trump administration.
“Standards are apparently evolving,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee. The panel would consider the nomination of former Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, for attorney general if he is formally put forward.
Mr. Gaetz was the subject of a Justice Department investigation and a House Ethics Committee inquiry into drug use and whether...
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Clutch then pearls, Deep State. The Donald doesn’t give a shit what you think or say. You literally tried to kill him, and failed. He is in it to win it. ALL of it. He will get Gaetz for 4 years, or 300 days and then another 300 days, if that’s what it takes. But he will never back down, ever again.
If you aren’t exposed to germs your immune system atrophies.
Think of it as building up your antique-media immunity should you chose to click on them, which is completely voluntary.
Past rules shouldn’t apply to Trumps nominee’s. He is trying to save the country. Democrats have been breaking the law since time immemorial. It’s about time the Rep’s get in the mud and purposely put the most dirty, controversial people they can find in. That will teach them.
Yo, NYT your time has run out.
Time for Republicans to take a page from the Democrat play book. Confirm them all and let God sort it out.
So it begins. The full court MSM smear campaign.
Recess, appoint, Matt flips them a double-bird.
Crimes comitted in order to maintain a drug habit are most assuredly legal issues. Some are violent.
Are they afraid these government nominees will leave the border open to tens of millions from God Knows where?
Oh wait...The criminal lunatics who hijacked government have been doing that for 50 years, so bad it's now become a national security timebomb.
While sucking down oceans of adult beverages.
Yep...The crap being peddled by state media is just beyond reality...100% horse s**t.
Aint workin’ this time, Slimes.
chat.openai.com
“What % of cabinet nominees who do not withdraw are confirmed?”
Answer: 95-99% of cabinet nominees who do not withdraw are approved.
Ask it yourself, or spend years looking up every nominee back 100+ years.
GOP senators will not want to publicly vote No.
“Past Nominees Have Been Undone by Far Less Than What Surrounds Trump Picks | Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices.”
Were they undone by what they admitted they did, or were they undone by unsupported ACCUSATIONS of what they might have done?
Answer is what they did, since accusations, like what Kavenaugh, Gets, Thomas and others faced were SPIKED by the media, long before they became issues. The only ones that got through were the supportable accusations...and that’s why they dropped out.
“Sniff…Sniff” Is that the sweet aroma of leftist desperation?
Blow it out your ass
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