Trump's Cabinet of horrors exposes his totalitarian drift

[frank83628]

5 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

NYTimes headline today:

 

 

Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Panned in Washington, Thrill Many of His Voters

Where Donald Trump’s critics see underqualified nominees with questionable judgment, his voters described them as mavericks recruited to shake up Washington.

 

Seems that DJT's toughest critics on cabinet picks right now are Republican Senators.

RINOS

[pattayasan]

8 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Accused?  I can accuse you of being a child molester.

 
Anyone can accuse anyone of anything.

 

Your post has no merit without a criminal conviction.

 

Another attempt my leftists nutters.

 

Wasn’t Biden a child molester?

 

Go back to school for your GED.

 

 

You know full well there's a house ethics report and that Gaetz resigned the day before it was due to be released. You are being disingenuous and will be ignored.

[pattayasan]

4 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

I'm an optimistic guy. Much more so since the election. I said he'd get who he wants through the Seante. I did not say everyone on the current list is who he wants. 

 

How does it not mean that if it's not everyone who [sic] he wants then he didn't get everyone through the senate?

[Lacessit]

48 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

 

 

 

Oh, another little leftie that has been traumatised by a democratic vote, and has resorted to cartoons to express his little feet stamping tantrum …. ah, bless

 

 

 

 MAGA's understand better when they have pictures drawn for them. Just trying to help.

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

How does it not mean that if it's not everyone who [sic] he wants then he didn't get everyone through the senate?

How does what not mean what?

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

everyone who works in an office dresses with the same blue suit.

Must be a bloody huge suit!

 

Ps; Do they all go to the WC together?

[stevenl]

22 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Only 34 of the 100 senate seats were up for election so no they didn't elect 2/3 of them.

So? Those 34 were elected against the will of the electorate?

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

You know full well there's a house ethics report and that Gaetz resigned the day before it was due to be released. You are being disingenuous and will be ignored.

Then you will know this but have failed to mention it. Best not to call other people disingenuous when it can clearly be argued this is exactly what you've been.

 

Gaetz, 42, who represented Florida’s District 1 covering part of the Florida Panhandle, was investigated by the FBI on sex-trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old and was not charged with any crime.

The federal investigation ended last year. Gaetz has said he was the target of an extortion plot.

A House Ethics Committee investigation was launched in April 2021. It was deferred at the request of the Department of Justice and reauthorized in 2023 after the department withdrew that deferral request.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/woman-told-house-ethics-committee-saw-gaetz-sex-minor-lawyer-says-rcna180435

 

As for the Ethics Committee Report

 The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/17/house-probe-into-matt-gaetz-relies-on-witnesses-doj-found-lacked-credibility/

"I'm going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House," Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters in the US Capitol.

Gaetz, 42, who denies any wrongdoing, resigned from Congress on Wednesday, bringing the ethics probe to an end two days before the committee had been expected to release the document.

The former congressman faced a nearly three-year Justice Department investigation into sex-trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old girl. His office said in 2023 he had been told by prosecutors he would not be charged.

Johnson said he planned to urge House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest not to provide the Gaetz report to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The rules of the House have always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee," said Johnson, who returned on Friday morning from meeting Trump at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

"I think it's a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule," he added. "I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/speaker-wants-ethics-report-trump-pick-gaetz-secret

[pattayasan]

3 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Then you will know this but have failed to mention it. Best not to call other people disingenuous when it can clearly be argued this is exactly what you've been.

 

Gaetz, 42, who represented Florida’s District 1 covering part of the Florida Panhandle, was investigated by the FBI on sex-trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old and was not charged with any crime.

The federal investigation ended last year. Gaetz has said he was the target of an extortion plot.

A House Ethics Committee investigation was launched in April 2021. It was deferred at the request of the Department of Justice and reauthorized in 2023 after the department withdrew that deferral request.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/woman-told-house-ethics-committee-saw-gaetz-sex-minor-lawyer-says-rcna180435

 

As for the Ethics Committee Report

 The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/17/house-probe-into-matt-gaetz-relies-on-witnesses-doj-found-lacked-credibility/

"I'm going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not the way we do things in the House," Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters in the US Capitol.

Gaetz, 42, who denies any wrongdoing, resigned from Congress on Wednesday, bringing the ethics probe to an end two days before the committee had been expected to release the document.

The former congressman faced a nearly three-year Justice Department investigation into sex-trafficking allegations involving a 17-year-old girl. His office said in 2023 he had been told by prosecutors he would not be charged.

Johnson said he planned to urge House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest not to provide the Gaetz report to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The rules of the House have always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee," said Johnson, who returned on Friday morning from meeting Trump at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

"I think it's a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule," he added. "I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/speaker-wants-ethics-report-trump-pick-gaetz-secret

 

Why would an innocent man resign the day before the report was due for release? Why is speaker Johnston opposed to releasing the report? It wasn't a precedent anyway so he lied.

[G_Money]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

Why would an innocent man resign the day before the report was due for release? Why is speaker Johnston opposed to releasing the report? It wasn't a precedent anyway so he lied.

Why does Biden shower with minors?

[dinsdale]

9 minutes ago, stevenl said:

So? Those 34 were elected against the will of the electorate?

This makes zero sense.

[Yellowtail]

6 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

Why would an innocent man resign the day before the report was due for release? Why is speaker Johnston opposed to releasing the report? It wasn't a precedent anyway so he lied.

He does not want the report released? 

 

It does not matter if it's true or not, once the legacy media gets it it's true forever. 

[Yellowtail]

3 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Appears Trump’s new cabinet and newly formed agency has plenty of work from day 1 thanks to the Biden administration.

 

Along with firing Woke Generals and Admirals.

 

 

Oh, that's just a rounding error 

[pattayasan]

Just now, Yellowtail said:

He does not want the report released? 

 

It does not matter if it's true or not, once the legacy media gets it it's true forever. 

 

It will say what it says. People can make up their own minds. If it exonerates him he's a hero.

[Yellowtail]

Just now, pattayasan said:

 

It will say what it says. People can make up their own minds. If it exonerates him he's a hero.

And if he's innocent and it paints him as a child molester, as you already have, his life is ruined.

 

The press will print it as fact without regard for the truth. 

[dinsdale]

5 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

Why would an innocent man resign the day before the report was due for release? Why is speaker Johnston opposed to releasing the report? It wasn't a precedent anyway so he lied.

He has not been found guilty of any charges. You yourself said accused. He was accused yes and found not guilty of any charge. Tell me this is incorrect. As for resigning he has to to take up the AG position. Excellent timing IMO. This is just more lawfare stemming from the what's written in one of the above articles two dodgy witnesses. 

[pattayasan]

Just now, Yellowtail said:

And if he's innocent and it paints him as a child molester, as you already have, his life is ruined.

 

The press will print it as fact without regard for the truth. 

 

That ship has sailed. Gaetz's name is synonymous with kiddly fiddler now. The whole world knows the allegations. Don't you think the FBI needs the report for a background check? Apparently not.

 

It's best that the report is released so as to exclude the possibility that he is a genuine child rapist. Let's not forget there was a statement and now a witness.

[pattayasan]

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

He has not been found guilty of any charges. You yourself said accused. He was accused yes and found not guilty of any charge. Tell me this is incorrect. As for resigning he has to to take up the AG position. Excellent timing IMO. This is just more lawfare stemming from the what's written in one of the above articles two dodgy witnesses. 

 

Gaetz has been not been found not guilty of anything.

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

It will say what it says. People can make up their own minds. If it exonerates him he's a hero.

People can make up their own minds. Really? I remember having a severe bout of censorship over the last 4 years where this was definitely not the case.

[NoDisplayName]

4 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

And if he's innocent and it paints him as a child molester, as you already have, his life is ruined.

 

The press will print it as fact without regard for the truth. 

 

They would never.

 

Well, except for that Steele dossier.

But that was different.

They were defending democracy or something.

[pattayasan]

Just now, dinsdale said:

People can make up their own minds. Really? I remember having a severe bout of censorship over the last 4 years where this was definitely not the case.

 

Not censorship of a house ethics report I'll warrant. A twitter rant maybe? warm?

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

Not censorship of a house ethics report I'll warrant. A twitter rant maybe? warm?

You already believe he's guilty, you call him guilty, and you seem to want his life ruined for no other reason than you are full of hate, 

[pattayasan]

6 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

You already believe he's guilty, you call him guilty, and you seem to want his life ruined for no other reason than you are full of hate, 

 

I never called him guilty. I, like many others want to see the report into a potential AG. Some apparently are worried about what it may say.

 

There's too much  ducking and weaving aka smoke from the traitor Johnstone for there not to be some fire here. Others too are scrambling. Trump wants to skip senate confirmations. Talk about the mafia taking over government.

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

That ship has sailed. Gaetz's name is synonymous with kiddly fiddler now. The whole world knows the allegations. Don't you think the FBI needs the report for a background check? Apparently not.

 

It's best that the report is released so as to exclude the possibility that he is a genuine child rapist. Let's not forget there was a statement and now a witness.

"Kiddie fiddler" "child rapist". Wow! Some people. I know you're form on here but you really need to start considering your state mind. Apart from your questionable mental state 17 years old can hardly be called a kiddie fiddler, child rapist  now can it and to call someone this who has not been convicted of said crimes is pretty fkd.  

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

I never called him guilty.

Ah that's ok then. Calling him a kiddie fiddler and child rapist means what then?

[pattayasan]

16 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Ah that's ok then. Calling him a kiddie fiddler and child rapist means what then?

 

It means my opinion is that he is both of those. That doesn't mean he's guilty. I'm not Robinson Crusoe.

[dinsdale]

8 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

It means my opinion is that he is both of those. That doesn't mean he's guilty. I'm not Robinson Crusoe.

Then you should keep your unsubstantiated, slanderous, vitriolic "opinion" to yourself.

[pattayasan]

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Then you should keep your unsubstantiated, slanderous, vitriolic "opinion" to yourself.

 

What happened to calling Biden a kiddly fiddler? Jeez. And Biden wasn't the subject of an ethics committee investigation and he did have the FBI do a background check.

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

What happened to calling Biden a kiddly fiddler? Jeez. And Biden wasn't the subject of an ethics committee investigation and he did have the FBI do a background check.

It's not me saying that. Innocent until proven guilty IMO and even then a person can still be innocent.

[pattayasan]

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

It's not me saying that. Innocent until proven guilty IMO and even then a person can still be innocent.

 

Sure they can. IMO, he's guilty as sin. The real argument here is why is the report a secret now?