UPDATE 11/20/2024:Trump is headed back to the White House, and is already running a transition that’s a master class in how to normalize corruption, immorality, and narcissism. Bill Clinton said during his 1992 campaign that his cabinet would “look like America,” and he delivered. Trump wants one that looks just like him—and by God, he is trying to deliver.
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Only to Trump could RFK Jr. look like the ideal candidate to head a department committed to “enhancing the health and well-being of all Americans” and “fostering sound, sustained advances” in medical science.
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The anti-vax delusion is part of a much larger web of conspiracies that would guide RFK Jr.’s tenure as an HHS secretary instructed by his boss to “go wild.” We have used science to create a safer world. RFK Jr. would make it more dangerous for everyone, especially frail or immunocompromised people of all ages. A 2020 study by the news organization Tortoise found that he was the No. 1 superspreader of misinformation on social media, while the Center for Countering Digital Hate included him among the Disinformation Dozen in 2021.
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THEN AGAIN, ONLY TRUMP could look at Pete Hegseth—a Fox News host who cheated on two wives and now is married to his third, who was accused of sexual assault and investigated by police, who denied the assault but paid off the accuser, who has said it’s not rape if a woman is unconscious, who says women should not have combat roles, who urged Trump to pardon or reinstate troops accused or convicted of war crimes, and was pulled from national guard duty at Joe Biden’s inauguration because a security manager had flagged him as a possible white nationalist “insider threat”—and deem him perfect to lead the Department of Defense and the nearly 3 million member U.S. military.
Only Trump could look at former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard—who spouts Kremlin propaganda, sympathizes with Vladimir Putin, calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky corrupt, and met secretly with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad—and see an ideal director of national intelligence, one who would be privy to all U.S. secrets and oversee eighteen intelligence agencies across the federal government.
Only Trump could look at former Rep. Matt Gaetz—investigated by the Justice Department for alleged sex crimes and by the House Ethics Committee in connection with allegations of “sex parties,” illicit drug use, and sex with a minor—and see an attorney general.
The Bulwark
Seems to be a job requirement. Also, what happened to doing away with the Department of Education?
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