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That's some crazy shit, but Gaetz hasn't been confirmed yet. Gaetz let his law license in FL expire last I read, but I don't know that an attorney general even has to be a lawyer. US DOJ has plenty of lawyers on staff. Ministers of justice in some countries aren't lawyers, ministers of health aren't always physicians.

That's the 3rd Florida politician Trump has appointed: Waltz his national security adviser; Rubio his secretary of state; and Gaetz his atty gen.
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highdesert wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 4:30 pm That's some crazy shit, but Gaetz hasn't been confirmed yet. Gaetz let his law license in FL expire last I read, but I don't know that an attorney general even has to be a lawyer. US DOJ has plenty of lawyers on staff. Ministers of justice in some countries aren't lawyers, ministers of health aren't always physicians.

That's the 3rd Florida politician Trump has appointed: Waltz his national security adviser; Rubio his secretary of state; and Gaetz his atty gen.
Me thinks Trump is going to make his residence the official Whitehouse. In the south of all places.
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He will be happy with a couple of very young female assistants.
n a surprise announcement, President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to be his attorney general despite his ongoing problems with the House Ethics Committee.
Ethics we don't ned no stinking ethics. We are Repugs.
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Yup the House Ethics Committee was supposed to be releasing at least a preliminary report on Gaetz tomorrow, which the media speculates is why he resigned immediately from the House. We don't know what's in that report or if it will ever see the light of day. Gaetz has been investigated for years and no one has found a smoking gun to prosecute and convict him. I'm sure his public confirmation hearing in a US Senate hearing room will be raucous, but unless Democrats or the media can produce that smoking gun he'll get confirmed. Yelling and screaming at hearings just plays to the TV cameras.

Speculation is that Todd Blanche will be nominated for Deputy AG, the number two post in US DOJ. It's not uncommon for personal attorneys or law partners to get appointed by presidents. Of course the most notorious case was Nixon's law partner John Mitchell that he named as AG, Mitchell was prosecuted and convicted for his part in Watergate. I won't be sorry to see the current ATF director depart, he's a political appointee so hopefully he'll be gone January 20th if not sooner.
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Trump Considers His Lawyer Todd Blanche For Deputy Attorney General: Reports

President-elect Donald Trump might name his lead criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general, CNN and ABC News reported Wednesday.

Blanche represented Trump in the New York hush money case in which he was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He also was part of Trump’s defense teams in the two federal cases Special Counsel Jack Smith led over Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Smith is now winding down those cases.

Trump’s possible choice of Blanche would position the lawyer as the No. 2 of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has been tapped by Trump to lead the Justice Department. Both roles require Senate confirmation.

“Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-to ... a14b3c2202

Will dismantle Criminal Organizations such as DNC, ACLU, and other liberal organizations to numerous to mention. He won't end Weaponized Government but increase it to aid supporters of TOS and fight the liberal causes and opponents of TOS.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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If Trump can't get Gaetz confirmed by the Senate, he could put him in as AG through a recess appointment. Gaetz will get revenge for Trump and for himself, US DOJ investigated Gaetz for 2 years and never gathered enough evidence to prosecute him. It's expected that Joint Chiefs Chair Gen CQ Brown, Jr will be moved out at the Pentagon and a new JCS Chair will be appointed.

Biden had a choice between appointing Brown or Gen David Berger, the outgoing Marine Corps Commandant as JCS Chair. Berger revolutionized the Corps, but Biden didn't lean that way. I think Biden was looking at his reelection and not at what was best for the Pentagon. We'll see what Hegseth and Trump do in the next 4 years.

Trump has talked about firing Christopher Wray the current FBI director, Trump appointed him in his first term in office. We'll see if he does it and who he'd replace him with.

Trump has talked about abolishing the US Dept of Education because of it's "wokeness". Trump will have the trifecta for 2 years and we'll see who he appts as Education Secty.
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Berkshire-Hathaway has a huge cash position to take advantage of the coming chaotic market due to foolish orange policies. Inflation will grow. The deficit will grow. Unemployment will grow. Berkshire-Hathaway will increase ownership of key stocks. They just sold tons of Apple and will buy more back after the crash. You watch. Orange helps only the rich like this. The rest of us are used to fuel bleach burnouts at funny car racetracks. We doan need no steenkin' law enforcement.

Buckle up.

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CDFingers wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:46 am Berkshire-Hathaway has a huge cash position to take advantage of the coming chaotic market due to foolish orange policies. Inflation will grow. The deficit will grow. Unemployment will grow. Berkshire-Hathaway will increase ownership of key stocks. They just sold tons of Apple and will buy more back after the crash. You watch. Orange helps only the rich like this. The rest of us are used to fuel bleach burnouts at funny car racetracks. We doan need no steenkin' law enforcement.

Buckle up.

CDF
Speaking of not needing law enforcement. The repugs ran on the Dems wanting to defund the police.
Now look who's threatening to defund law enforcement depts. Even the CIA and the AG's office that he might run.
What a dope head.
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Mike Johnson Will ’Strongly Request’ Ethics Committee Bury Its Gaetz Report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Mo.) said it would set “a terrible precedent” if the House Ethics Committee were to release its report on the sex trafficking allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), according to Politico.

“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 told the outlet. The ethics committee lost its power to investigate Gaetz when he quit his post in anticipation of becoming Trump’s attorney general, if confirmed by the Senate.

Senators from both parties have expressed a desire to read what’s in the report, saying they should have all available information on which to base their decision.

While the committee was expected to vote today on whether or not to make the report public, that meeting has been “postponed,” according to Chair of the House Ethics Committee Michael Guest, Politico reported.
The Dirty laundry report will be burned and buried, never to see the light of day.
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Biden's DOJ investigated Gaetz for two years and finally closed the case, they didn't prosecute him. We don't know if the House committee report just lists the same info that DOJ has in their investigation or if there is actually new evidence. If it's a he said-she said case, then that can be very difficult to prove. In past decades just a hint of this would knock Gaetz out of running, but the justice system has been weaponized and barring something unusual happening Gaetz will get sworn in as AG.
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Lawmaker says latest Trump news should worry 'every American citizen'

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) on Friday raised alarms about former President Donald Trump's efforts to forgo FBI background checks for his cabinet picks.

Appearing on CNN, Spanberger was asked by host John Berman about reports that Trump's transition team is skipping over the FBI and has hired a private firm to conduct background checks on highly controversial nominees such as Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard.

"This is an alarming step that, frankly, should alarm every American citizen who wants the basic function of government to work, who wants to ensure that the FBI, as you were reporting earlier, is able to investigate terrorist threats," she said. "The fact that they would avoid a traditional background check process to me means they know they can't pass it, and what it means is that information that would be available to the FBI just won't even be considered."

Gabbard in the past has raised eyebrows for parroting Kremlin talking points about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and many critics have cited her as someone who is particularly unfit to serve as the United States' director of national intelligence.

However, Berman pointed out to Spanberger that people like Gabbard and Kennedy on the campaign trail with Trump and then asked her if she believed that this wasn't what Americans had voted for.

"It's interesting because people continue to be surprised," she replied. "And I will say these nominations, they are shocking, absolutely, because the individuals you mentioned are wholly unfit to lead the vast organizations that do things like protect the American public from the next global pandemic."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-alarming-step/

The fact that TOS is wanting to block the background checks by the FBI is telling enough there is a problem. I know that my Dad in 27 years of military service had multiple background checks done so he could have security clearance to various project many of the were not just Top Secret but only on a need to know and eyes only clearance. Eve after he retired he had to have a security top secret check to work in some areas of Lockheed Fort Worth. Since TOS is trying to put people in place without a background check maybe we should demand a background check on TOS aa he is a security risk.

Should be a law that all people running for or going to be a candidate for a position in the Federal government needs to pass a background check if they might need to see even the lowest classified information as a qualification to even run or be appointed.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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Abigail Spanberger didn't run for reelection to the US House, because she's running for Virginia governor, it's visibility on CNN for her upcoming campaign.
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Trump isn't even guaranteed two years having the trifecta. House Republicans could continue being splintered and limp along like they've been doing, needing Democratic votes for major legislation. And 2026 is a new federal election, if Trump goes too far he could lose the House like he did in 2018.
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The expression “The worse, the better” is often attributed to Vladimir Lenin, and captures a sort of messianic nihilism — the dream that escalating misery will hasten the fall of a corrupt order. Usually, I find this ethos despicable; in my experience, suffering only begets more suffering. I’m making an exception, however, for Donald Trump’s nomination of the former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad it’s good.

While Trump’s choice of Gaetz to lead the Justice Department is a clear sign that his second administration will be catastrophically chaotic, vengeful and corrupt, that should never have been in doubt. Trump made no secret during his campaign of his desire to persecute his political enemies. Anyone he chose as attorney general would share his interest in turning the justice system into the enforcement arm of the MAGA movement. The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.

Of all the people Trump was considering for A.G., Gaetz is unique mainly for how much he is hated by other Republicans, and not just moderate ones. In the final months of the last Trump administration, the Justice Department opened an investigation into whether Gaetz had a relationship with an underage girl that violated federal sex trafficking laws. Though that inquiry was closed without charges, the House opened an ethics investigation into him. It was reportedly set to vote on releasing a damning report on Friday, which Gaetz may have tried to pre-empt by resigning, though it could still become public.

When Gaetz was accused of sleeping with the girl, “there’s a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him,” Markwayne Mullin, a very conservative Republican senator from Oklahoma, told CNN last year. His colleagues, said Mullin, had seen videos “of the girls that he had slept with,” which Gaetz allegedly showed off on the House floor. After Gaetz forced Kevin McCarthy out as House speaker, throwing his party into disorder, Mike Rogers, a Republican congressman from Alabama, seemed ready to physically attack him and had to be restrained by colleagues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opin ... rings.html

I love the paragraph ending with the Caligula joke.
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