Summary
Donald Trump’s transition team has bypassed standard FBI background checks for key cabinet nominees, relying instead on private investigators, as reported by CNN.
This breaks decades-old norms meant to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.
Controversial appointees include Matt Gaetz (attorney general), Tulsi Gabbard (director of national intelligence), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (health secretary), all facing scrutiny for past investigations, pro-Russian views, or personal admissions.
Critics argue Trump seeks to undermine traditional vetting, with potential security risks tied to bypassing these checks.
Excellent, this surely won’t have any far reaching consequences.
We still control the executive, make them vote on it.
#TeamAsteroid …
When you can’t drain the swamp, stuff the swamp with more swamp until unlimited swamp.
The Banana Republicans up to a good start.
Cadet Bone Spurs relied on (PAID!!!) a private doctor to give him bone spurs and completely avoided the military doctors who would have found his worthless fit for duty. How in the fuck can one avoid an FBI background check for any government position and contract work?
Trump should just come clean and admit that he plans to betray Ukraine.
He already said as much before the election and people still voted him in. He also stated he’s cool with leveling Gaza, and called Netanyahu and told him no deal until after the election, that way he can give Israel carte blanche and claim the credit for “ending the war” (ignoring the complete genocide of the Palestinians).
I assume if they’re investigating or vetting anything it’s: will they be loyal to Trump? Anything good to hang on to as blackmail or extortion material?
So, Cheeto is relying on private investigators…run by the Russian FSB. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the Deep State is going to filled with neo-Nazis, religious nutters and Russian agents.
Always has been
The Senate will allow this or not.
The senate:
🔘 Will allow this
⚪️ Will not
There are Republicans already encouraging the Senate to meet the 10-day recess necessary to allow Trump to circumvent the Senate with the Recess Appointments Clause. Which is Republicans using a rule in bad faith that was supposed to protect the process from the Senate using an excessive recess to prevent/delay a President from getting their picks vetted.
Things are going to be FAR worse than anyone has imagined thus far.
I just know it.
Please don’t tell my intrusive thoughts that
This breaks decades-old norms meant to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.
Come the fuck on. The FBI background checks are a “norm” too? Do we have actual laws for anything?
America: relies on tradition because laws are for the poor
The actual laws also don’t seem to matter, in all fairness.
And the party of tradition won’t care
Up till now, we didn’t really need them because everyone agreed it was the smart thing to do.
We’re done with smart.
That’s the hope. If we’re gonna have a fascist state, at least let it be a bumbling incompetent fascist state.
No shit, one of his picks has white supremacist tats all over his body, one paid a minor for sex and gave them hardcore drugs, and the other is an actual Russian Agent.
My only confidence and hope is that these guys are such monumental fuckups that they won’t be able to string together enough executive function to realize their dark vision.
I am high on the same copium in order to avoid a complete breakdown.
Lemmy doesn’t offer a way to filter posts by words in the title do they? I’m over hearing anything about this waste of oxygen and his buddies.
Let us know of you find out how. Heard others filtering but that might be on other platforms
I have a “muted words” option in Boost to filter out posts by title. Don’t know about any other clients. Sry
Voyager app does… it’s how I don’t see most musk threads.
