Trump Nominates Matt Gaetz as Attorney General

She's transitioning...to and from yet to be determined.

 

Jeanne Pirro to head the addictions division of the national institute of health

 

Backdoor promises are an ugly part of politics, but they’re status quo.

I would have less of a problem with it if he picked someone who I didn’t think is completely in over his head.

 

Release what report, the one that has been kicked around by the MSM since 2021 that has no proof whatsoever?

 

Parody is no longer possible

 

It’s really hard I’ll grant you.

 

Unfortunately, your first point is the norm for SECDEF nominees; those with high-level military experience are the exceptions.* In my opinion, the second point is irrelevant in the absence of the first; I don’t care, for instance, if a person was the CEO of Walgreens if they have never spent one day in uniform. There’s too much they just don’t and won’t understand, and surrounding them with people who have just doesn’t mean anything. That’s what I was trying to say earlier. There should be general minimum qualifications for this and other Cabinet positions. For SECDEF, I think you need to have held a rank no lower than major, a master’s degree in military studies or business administration, and be five years removed from military service. I say major (O-4) because that is the earliest grade in which a person is exposed to military strategy, force management (acquisitions, doctrine, facilities, etc), and whole-of-government solutions, which the SECDEF must be versed in. Earlier than that, and they just understand their specific military occupational specialty and little outside of it. From my perspective, having a SECDEF who has not been a field grade officer in one of the armed services is like having a Surgeon General who was never a doctor or a Supreme Court Justice who was never a judge.

* Just looked it up: there have been 27 SECDEFs since the position was established in 1947; of those, only eight served as an O-4 or higher, and four of those had accelerated promotion due to WW2 and really never got the training and education that went with it.

 

Gaetz’s nemesis’s comments:


“Look, Gaetz won’t get confirmed,” he continued. “Everybody knows that.”

McCarthy, a loyal Trump ally while serving in the House, was asked why the former president would bother tapping Gaetz if he knew the Florida Republican couldn’t get confirmed

You can talk to [the] president, but it’s a good deflection from others, but it also gives …” McCarthy responded, cutting himself off. “I’ll let it stand at that.”

You’d have to ask the president, but Gaetz couldn’t win in a Republican conference, so it doesn’t matter.”

McCarthy says Gaetz won’t get confirmed: ‘Everyone knows that’

 

What happens to the Gaetz House ethics report?

No, the one the Republican led house ethics committee has recently completed.

 

He’s not getting confirmed. Even some Rs know it

 

Kind of surprised me. I thought that he would appoint Miriam Adelson. She's Israeli by birth and is one of Trump's largest donors (around $100 million to his 2024 campaign) as was her late husband, Sheldon.

 

This one:

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