{"id":137571,"date":"2024-12-16T05:52:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137571"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:52:54","slug":"donald-trumps-cabinet-picks-are-giving-the-gop-buyers-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137571","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks are giving the GOP buyer\u2019s remorse"},"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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Donald Trump\u2019s ill-considered choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently emerged from yet another U.S. Senate meeting, stopped to talk with media and vowed, \u201cAs long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I\u2019m going to be standing right here in this fight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis will not be a process tried in the media. I don\u2019t answer to anyone in this group, none of you,\u201d he said, pointing to a TV camera as he took questions from journalists this month in the Hart Senate Office Building. \u201cI\u2019m a different man than I was years ago, and that\u2019s a redemption story that I think a lot of Americans appreciate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But barely a month after Trump\u2019s election victory Nov. 5, there is little redemption for Republicans. The spectacle of so many unqualified, embattled Cabinet picks has led to division and a growing sense of buyer\u2019s remorse among many GOP senators and others forced to deal with this rogue\u2019s gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataforprogress.org\/insights\/2024\/11\/14\/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low-information voters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> helped fuel Trump\u2019s win by a slim <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/vote-tracker\/2024\/electoral-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.5% margin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and less than 50% of the vote, and now there is alarm around the country and the world about the fallout \u2014 be it egregious Cabinet nominees, threats to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">politicize the Justice Department<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to target his enemies or calls for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">inflation-fueling tariffs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump hasn\u2019t even taken the oath of office for a second time, and already the chaos, calumny and craziness of his first term are unfolding again shamefully across the national scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You reap what you sow, and no one should be surprised, least of all Republicans who delighted in his victory. This issue of gross incompetence in selecting crackpots for sensitive national security positions goes way beyond differences among Republicans and Democrats. But it\u2019s a mess Republicans must either try to clean up in a volatile confirmation process in the new GOP-controlled Senate in January \u2014 or live with, and force the rest of us to live with, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is really who we are now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, it was former Florida U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general, who was forced to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/11\/21\/matt-gaetz-says-he-is-withdrawing-his-name-from-consideration-to-be-trumps-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">withdraw his name<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from consideration after a bipartisan outcry and as Democrats pushed for the release of a House Ethics Committee report on a probe into his conduct, including allegations of sexual misconduct and other alleged crimes he has denied. Gaetz was also widely disliked on Capitol Hill, and a handful of Republican senators bravely said no.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next came GOP consternation over two other nominees for sensitive roles in government that affect national security: Hegseth, who also has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/hegseths-attorney-threatens-sue-sex-assault-accuser-repeats\/story?id=116531786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">accused of sexual assault<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a charge he denies, and excessive drinking and mismanagement, and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, now Trump\u2019s nominee to be director of national intelligence. Gabbard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trumps-pick-for-intel-chief-tulsi-gabbard-faces-questions-about-2017-visit-to-syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">worries lawmakers from both parties<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the intelligence community because of her parroting Russian propaganda and her widely criticized 2017 trip to Syria to visit then-President Bashar Assad, who was ousted by opposition fighters last weekend. Both served in the military, but neither has the customary experience to serve in these roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many GOP voters who understandably were upset about high levels of inflation and immigration weren\u2019t necessarily counting on Trump\u2019s appetite for putting fealty over competence in filling such key jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there\u2019s his choice of loyalist Kash Patel for FBI director, a man with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2024\/12\/09\/trumps-pick-to-lead-fbi-identified-government-gangsters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an enemies list<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a vengeance tour against the \u201cdeep state,\u201d to replace the widely respected director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Trump himself in his first term. Wray honorably said he would step aside at the end of President Joe Biden\u2019s term to minimize the disruption to his agency, but the stench of Trump\u2019s lawless retribution reeks with this play to politicize the FBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\"\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/national-security-officials-warn-tulsi-gabbard-sympathy-dictators-1996419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National security experts warn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the country will be at risk if the Senate caves to Trump\u2019s intimidation tactics, shirks its advice and consent duties, and confirms Gabbard. Additionally, medical experts say the nation\u2019s health will be at risk if senators approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-vaccination nominee<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Trump tapped to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Bolton, a conservative Republican who served as Trump\u2019s national security adviser, warned last week in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/kash-patel-doesnt-belong-at-the-fbi-cabinet-nominee-5ef655eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that Patel\u2019s integrity and fitness should be examined in an FBI investigation prior to confirmation hearings, and he declared that \u201csenators won\u2019t escape history\u2019s judgment if they vote to confirm him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump supporters went after Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a combat veteran, after she said she wanted to hear more from Hegseth on that issue. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hegseth has said<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2024\/12\/08\/sen-joni-ernst-wants-hear-hegseth-sex-assault-military-and-women-combat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cstraight up\u201d<\/a> should not serve in combat roles. Then implied MAGA <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">threats of a primary challenge<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> started to pressure Ernst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a frequent Trump critic, said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/12\/congress\/lisa-murkowski-trump-00193988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the next four years will be hard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because Trump loyalists will demand, \u201cEverybody tow the line. Everybody line up. We got you here, and if you want to survive, you better be good. Don\u2019t get on Santa\u2019s naughty list here, because we will primary you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be sure, Trump won the election, and his nominees should be given fair hearings, but many are unqualified, erratic, unserious people. GOP senators need to vet them since Trump didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time magazine named Trump its 2024 Person of the Year last week, and he told Time\u2019s Eric Cortellessa he won because, \u201cWe hit the nerve of the country. The country was angry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s true, and elections have consequences, as former President Barack Obama was fond of saying. But the country is now bracing for a wrecking ball many in the Republican Party should have seen coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden ceded some of the moral high ground when he pardoned his son Hunter, and it will be harder for Democrats to make the case that Trump\u2019s minions are the real threat to democracy and the rule of law. But look around: They are well on the way to proving it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, all Americans who love the Constitution should urge their senators to stand up for the country and choose wisely to protect its security, health and democracy. Democrats, too, share blame. They need to regroup, assess what they did wrong, figure out the next steps and remember the words of Winston Churchill: \u201cIn defeat, defiance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Storer H. 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