Posted on 07/30/2020 6:38:13 AM PDT by RandFan
The confirmation hearing for President Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the Pentagon's policy shop was canceled l ess than an hour before it was set to begin on Thursday.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the hearing was canceled because "many" Democrats and Republicans "didn’t know enough about Anthony Tata to consider him for a very significant position at this time."
“We didn’t get the required documentation in time; some documents, which we normally get before a hearing, didn’t arrive until yesterday," Inhofe said in a statement released about 15 minutes before the hearing had been scheduled to start. "As I told the president last night, we’re simply out of time with the August recess coming, so it wouldn’t serve any useful purpose to have a hearing at this point, and he agreed.”
The Hill has reached out the White House for comment.
Democrats have been calling for Tata, a retired Army brigadier general most known for his frequent guest appearances on Fox News, to withdraw from consideration as under secretary of Defense for policy since inflammatory and racist tweets were surfaced by CNN last month.
In 2018 tweets, for example, Tata called Obama a “terrorist leader” and said Islam is the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.” He also called Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) a "vicious race baiting racist” and said she and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "have always been the same violent extremists."
In other 2018 tweets, he floated a conspiracy theory that former CIA Director John Brennan used a coded tweet to order Trump’s assassination and told Brennan to “pick his poison,” including execution or sucking “on a pistol.”
Tata has since deleted many of the offensive tweets. After CNN’s reports and after several Armed Services Democrats, including committee ranking member Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), came out in opposition to Tata’s nomination, he also penned a letter to Reed and Inhofe expressing regret at the tweets and calling them an “aberration in a four decade thread of faithful public service.”
Ten Democrats, including five on the committee, wrote a letter to Tata released Monday calling on him to withdraw, saying that “multiple past statements cannot be dismissed simply as an aberration.”
Tata could be confirmed without any Democratic support, as nominees only require a simple majority to be confirmed.
But questions have been raised about whether he could garner enough support among Republicans, particularly from those facing reelection would have to defend their vote on the inflammatory nominee.
At least one Republican has indicated he could oppose Tata, but not over the incendiary tweets. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said in a statement last week he would oppose Tata unless the Pentagon changes its policy against adding the names of those who died in the 1969 USS Frank E. Evans ship collision to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
“We didn’t get the required documentation in time; some documents, which we normally get before a hearing, didn’t arrive until yesterday,”
Sounds like Resistance sabotage.
How about a recess appointment?
I didn’t see anything wrong with his Tweets................
Ok, So where is the racist tweet?
I didn’t see anything wrong with his Tweets................
All these useless GOP Senators complaining about some tweets are just fine with “Republican” Graham supporting Hillary Criminal in 2016 and keeping his prized Senate committee chairmanship.
Since when has any Democrat Senator ever reviewed the history and documentation of ANY nominee submitted by a President for confirmation? If it is from a Democrat President, an automatic “Aye”, if submitted by a Republican President, then the “No” vote is also automatic.
You won’t find one...
The hill is such a leftist sesspool.
JoMa
So, if the nominee holds views, not in line with the opposition party, he need not apply?
haha yes..
Not approved by the Uniparty
Likely what will happen. He’ll be recess appointed.
It means he a racist.
The Republican senate is weak. President Trump has had more nominees denied than any other president in my lifetime. Herman Cain (Fed Reserve), Stephen Moore (Fed Reserve) and now Anthony Tata (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy). They were all well qualified but were denied because of their political opinions. This doesn’t happen to Democrat nominees.
Tara tells it like it is. I hope he makes it through.
In 2018 tweets, for example, Tata called Obama a “terrorist leader” and said Islam is the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.” He also called Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) a “vicious race-baiting racist” and said she and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “have always been the same violent extremists.”
The truth hurts.
Yes indeed but I don’t like how they call him a ‘racist’ I dont think he is. That is just terrible journalism.
Tata called Obama a “terrorist leader”
and said Islam is the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.”
He also called Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) a "vicious race baiting racist” and
said she and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "have always been the same violent extremists."
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Nothing inflammatory or racist there.
"Just the facts, ma'am."
I like hi now that I hear his opinions....which are spot on!
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