{"id":129048,"date":"2024-11-23T05:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129048"},"modified":"2024-11-23T05:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:17:06","slug":"trumps-cabinet-picks-send-a-clear-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129048","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks send a clear message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">On Thursday, former Rep. Matt Gaetz announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/384967\/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-attorney-general\">he would be withdrawing his candidacy<\/a> to serve as President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s attorney general after facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cew2z48rp70o\">furor over accusations of sexual misconduct<\/a>, including having sex with a 17-year-old minor. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The accusations against Gaetz, who was the subject of a years-long investigation by the House Ethics Committee, as well as a separate, prior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/20\/senate-matt-gaetz-fbi-sex-trafficking-trump-doj.html\">FBI probe over sex trafficking allegations<\/a> that never resulted in criminal charges, proved to be too much for the Florida Republican\u2019s nomination. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1839341409582846196\/photo\/1\">Gaetz has denied all wrongdoing<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">But Gaetz is hardly the only one of Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks to face such allegations. Indeed, a remarkable number of the people Trump is eager to position in his inner circle have been accused of some sort of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to sexual assault to enabling a culture of exploitation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">In addition to Gaetz, there\u2019s also:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _80slsf1 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _1agbrixh _739u100 xkp0cg0\">\n<li class=\"_739u101\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Trump\u2019s nominee for defense secretary, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/police-report-sexual-assault-claim-hegseth.html\">accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017<\/a> in his hotel room after an event for the California Federation of Republican Women. He later reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-allegation-payment\/\">paid for her to stay silent<\/a> as part of a confidential legal settlement. A recently released police report about the incident says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/21\/politics\/pete-hegseth-police-report-defense-secretary-trump\/index.html\">accuser believes Hegseth may have drugged her<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/17\/politics\/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-settlement-agreement\/index.html\">Hegseth maintains the encounter was consensual<\/a> and was never criminally charged.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_739u101\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump has tapped for secretary of Health and Human Services, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/21\/rfk-jr-assault-accuser\">accused of groping his teenage babysitter<\/a>. Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/12\/rfk-sexual-assault-apology-eliza-cooney\/\">sent a text apology to the accuser<\/a> in which he said he had \u201cno memory\u201d of the incident.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_739u101\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Elon Musk, who Trump has charged with making the government more efficient, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/employees-toxic-lawsuit-spacex-sexual-harrasment-wrongful-termination\/\">was sued by former SpaceX employees<\/a> who say he fired them when they protested the company\u2019s culture of rampant sexual harassment. Musk does not appear to have publicly addressed the lawsuit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_739u101\"><span class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\">Linda McMahon, Trump\u2019s pick for education secretary, who is the target of a recent lawsuit that alleges she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/21\/business\/linda-mcmahon-abuse-wwe-trump-education\/index.html\">knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children<\/a> at World Wrestling Entertainment by another employee when she and her husband, Vince McMahon, were at its helm, beginning in the 1980s. McMahon has denied the allegations through an attorney.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Trump has long seemed to have an affinity for those who, like him, have been accused of sexual misdeeds. Before he became president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/382550\/jeffrey-epstein-tapes-donald-trump-friendship\">he was close friends with notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. One of his Supreme Court picks, Brett Kavanaugh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/explainers\/2018\/9\/27\/17909782\/brett-kavanaugh-christine-ford-supreme-court-senate-sexual-assault-testimony\">was accused of sexual assault<\/a> by multiple women (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/9\/26\/17906226\/brett-kavanaugh-written-testimony-sexual-assault\">Kavanaugh denied all the claims<\/a>), but Trump stood by him throughout his tempestuous confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/5\/3\/23055125\/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson\">later went on to help topple <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>, setting back reproductive rights in the country for a generation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">We know about Trump\u2019s own cavalier attitude toward sexual assault in part because of the infamous <em>Access Hollywood<\/em> tape, in which he can be heard bragging about sexually assaulting women for the benefit of a giggling Billy Bush. Trump talks about the assault as if it should hardly matter during their conversation: its primary importance seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/07916035211034355\">the social capital it will grant him<\/a> with another man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">We can\u2019t know exactly why Trump is surrounding himself with fellow accused sexual predators and those alleged to enable them, or why he\u2019s chosen to pick these particular people for some of the most prestigious positions in the nation. Regardless of Trump\u2019s intentions, though, his nominations are sending a clear message: that being credibly accused of sexual assault is not a serious impediment to ascending to the highest ranks of American government, nor to being granted authority over the bodies of millions of people. In short, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/384792\/your-body-my-choice-maga-gender-election\">your body, <em>my<\/em> choice<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Gaetz ultimately had to withdraw his nomination, though it\u2019s not clear how much that\u2019s due to his alleged sexual misdeeds and how much it\u2019s due to his longstanding penchant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/msnbc-ari-melber-matt-gaetz-gop-beef_n_673efba0e4b0045528dbff74\">conflict with his Republican colleagues<\/a>. The line for Cabinet members under Trump appears to be: Your colleagues can\u2019t threaten to release a detailed report allegedly showing that you had sex with a minor, and you also cannot have personally feuded with the people whose votes you need to be confirmed. Otherwise, very little is off the table. After all, a credible accusation of sexual assault hasn\u2019t doomed all of Trump\u2019s picks: Republican senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/us\/politics\/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-senate-republicans.html\">appear to be rallying around Hegseth<\/a>, even after the release of the graphic police report, although the confirmation process is still in its early days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks are a sort of crowing of victory, a proof of the concept he already demonstrated when he was successfully elected president. The concept is: You can be accused of sexual violence \u2014 you can be found civilly liable of sexual violence \u2014 and still hold some of the highest and most powerful offices in the land. And you can use that power to strip away women\u2019s rights to control their own bodies, repeating the individual violation on a massive scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Hegseth, if confirmed, would be in charge of the Pentagon, which has for years publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/04\/30\/a-culture-that-fosters-sexual-assaults-and-sexual-harassment-persists-despite-prevention-efforts-a-new-pentagon-study-shows\/\">battled a culture of rampant sexual violence<\/a>. Gaetz, if his nomination had gone through, would\u2019ve overseen a Justice Department charged with investigating and prosecuting federal sex crimes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">In a country that frequently and fervently announces that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/380789\/historic-election-feminism-kamala-harris-first-woman-president\">feminism is going too far<\/a>, our newly elected president appears determined to demonstrate that it\u2019s not the case. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"_1tzd3in0 _1agbrixx\">\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in1\">You\u2019ve read <!-- -->1<!-- --> article<!-- --> in the last month<\/p>\n<div class=\"_1tzd3in2\">\n<div class=\"_1tzd3in3\">\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in4\">Here at Vox, we&#8217;re unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you \u2014 threats to democracy, immigration, reproductive rights, the environment, and the rising polarization across this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in4\">Our mission is to provide clear, accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world. 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