Trump's Poor Hiring Decisions

[AuntieLynn11]

M & C may not matter if there are 53 R senators...

[CountZero]

The RINO senate will not confirm any good Trump appointments.....


 
 

[Faded Eagle]

Trump was on a real roll up to this point...

Gaetz's nomination to be the AG is an utter non-starter...I really have to believe that Trump knows that.  Maybe this was just intended as a trolling ruse to make California's new senator-elect panic and Schiff in his pants contemplating a new DOJ motivated to prosecute him for mortgage and tax fraud associated with lying and claiming multiple principal residences.  In any event, Gaetz will always be remembered in the republican party as a ringleader in the McCarthy confirmation spectacle that entertained the demonrat media complex by hanging out the republicans' dirty laundry in front of the whole country for a solid month.  It'll be a snowy day in Hell...errrr, I meant D.C. (oh but I repeat myself) when Gaetz gets confirmed by the senate.  I'd guess that probably a good third of the republican senators are unwilling to confirm him under any circumstances based on his reputation alone.  And then there's bound to be references to that house ethics committee investigation into sex with a minor and other alleged misconduct that is sure to poison the well further.  Stick a fork in him, he was already done before the nomination announcement hit the airwaves.

Hegseth is a good man, but he does not have the qualifications to run a million-man organization, manage a three-quarters of a $trillion dollar annual budget, develop policy to meet both existing and emerging threats to the US, and advise the president on multiple active and looming international wars in the mideast, Ukraine, and Taiwan.  Being a unit-level warfighter as a part-time national guardsman is certainly honorable service, but it does not give him the expertise to handle those complex challenges.  The SecDef position is not an OJT opportunity.  I really don't think he will survive confirmation, either, which is a shame because it will embarass both him and Trump.  I just don't see the republicans on the SASC handing the keys to the department to an amateur, good guy though he may be.  He would have been better nominated to be the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, where he could focus much of his attention on wringing the woke out of DoD and making warfighters great again.
 
 

[Canis Minor]

When I was a kid my Dad was friends with a brilliant guy who actually worked on the Apollo lunar lander (you know, "the Eagle has landed'). This guy's hobby was cars...especially sports cars and he had quite few of them. His fenced in back area that housed his cars was always getting broken into...until he got a dog. This dog was one of only two dogs in my lifetime that put sufficient fear into me that I wanted to run away in terror. Aka, it was a real mean-azz dog and nobody messed with this fellow's cars again.

Fast forward to now. The current FBI is FILTHY DIRTY...it's on par with a terrorist organization at this point in time. I very highly suspect Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz is something along the lines of my Dad's friend getting that utter Hell-hound to be his attack dog for his cars. Bottom line: I don't know all that Trump knows (none of us do). So, I'm just gonna let Trump be Trump and we will wait and see how this all plays out. However, the nasty Dem left is losing their feces over Gaetz being appointed...this alone makes me want to give the guy a chance. 
 
 
 

[CountZero]

The same people who think Matt Gaetz isn’t qualified to be Attorney General thought Kamala Harris was qualified to be President.

[Faded Eagle]

The same people who think Matt Gaetz isn’t qualified to be Attorney General thought Kamala Harris was qualified to be President.

 

The problem with Gaetz's nomination isn't one of qualification.  That's only one of several criteria used by the senate in their advice and consent role.  They also consider temperament, history, experience, loyalty etc.  He's burned his bridges with many republicans, and he has to be confirmed by a near-unanimous vote on the republican side of the senate to get the job.  I find it hard to imagine there aren't at least four republican senators unimpressed enough with his antics in the house to refuse to confirm him. 

[Riverboat]

The same people who think Matt Gaetz isn’t qualified to be Attorney General thought Kamala Harris was qualified to be President.

 

Baloney. Unsuitability may be a trait on both sides of the aisle. I'm betting IncrediBoy will have several Republicans just itching to send him packing, for good reason (see above post).

[Canis Minor]

In the Republican Party there are those who are still ‘Never Trumpers’ and they aren’t going to find anyone that’s strongly MAGA acceptable. So, who’s qualified/acceptable is a matter of opinion. I say we just let it play out and eventually Trump will have a cabinet. This problem is far less egregious than having a Communist as our President. 
 
 

[CountZero]

In the Republican Party there are those who are still ‘Never Trumpers’ and they aren’t going to find anyone that’s strongly MAGA acceptable. So, who’s qualified/acceptable is a matter of opinion. I say we just let it play out and eventually Trump will have a cabinet. This problem is far less egregious than having a Communist as our President. 
 
 

 

A globalist rino of course.....
 

[CountZero]

These people will decide. The ones that have laws on the books forbidding us to say bad things about them.