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Confirmation Hearings for the Trump's incredibly bad choices for cabinet leadership positions.  Traitors, drunks, rapists, pet killers and television personalities were the first choice of the mentally ill old man.  

My Senator, Dan Sullivan is all over his social media singing the praises of these folk so we should expect most of them to be confirmed.   

Hegseths hearing should be starting about now.  

 

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From what I saw from the Hegseth and Bondi hearings, they were well coached. They refused to answer what they called hypothetical questions. Hegseth referred repeatedly to "anonymous attacks " and smear campaigns. Bondi was amazingly ignorant about Patel's enemy lists and she never heard the tape of the call to the Georgia governor. 

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nursej22 said:

From what I saw from the Hegseth and Bondi hearings, they were well coached. They refused to answer what they called hypothetical questions. Hegseth referred repeatedly to "anonymous attacks " and smear campaigns. Bondi was amazingly ignorant about Patel's enemy lists and she never heard the tape of the call to the Georgia governor. 

Curated ignorance is something Republicans have been practicing since 2016. She accompanied the incredible claim with a smirk.  

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nursej22 said:

From what I saw from the Hegseth and Bondi hearings, they were well coached. They refused to answer what they called hypothetical questions. Hegseth referred repeatedly to "anonymous attacks " and smear campaigns. Bondi was amazingly ignorant about Patel's enemy lists and she never heard the tape of the call to the Georgia governor. 

Well-coached?  You mean like every other nominee, since ever?

Yes, there were tons of hypothetical questions.  

She said there are not any enemy lists.  I'm sure there are people they have in mind to look at, for good reason.  Who cares if there is an actual formally titled "enemy list"?  

What call to what governor are you talking about?

 

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Beerman said:

Well-coached?  You mean like every other nominee, since ever?

Yes, there were tons of hypothetical questions.  

She said there are not any enemy lists.  I'm sure there are people they have in mind to look at, for good reason.  Who cares if there is an actual formally titled "enemy list"?  

What call to what governor are you talking about?

 

I think was just a comment of her being well coached not that it was unique to be coached.  Sone people do well with their coaching some don't.

  The semantics are interesting and I think she's being honest that there is not an "enemies list", but given his's teams talk, I have to wonder if there aren't persons of interest Trump or  Republicans wants her to investigate.  Michael Cohen apparently is asking Biden for a future pardon and is encouraging others to as well.

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Tweety said:

I think was just a comment of her being well coached not that it was unique to be coached.  Sone people do well with their coaching some don't.

  The semantics are interesting and I think she's being honest that there is not an "enemies list", but given his's teams talk, I have to wonder if there aren't persons of interest Trump or  Republicans wants her to investigate.  Michael Cohen apparently is asking Biden for a future pardon and is encouraging others to as well.

Kash Patel assembled a list of people to be dealt with and published it in a book indicating that if given opportunity he would go after them.  I rather imagine that this was quite attractive to the crazy old guy who campaigned on his fondness for retribution.  Here's Kash Patel's list:

Michael Atkinson (former inspector general of the intelligence community)
Lloyd Austin (defense secretary under President Joe Biden)
Brian Auten (supervisory intelligence analyst, FBI)
James Baker (not the former secretary of state; this James Baker is former general counsel for the FBI and former deputy general counsel at Twitter)
Bill Barr (former attorney general under Trump)
John Bolton (former national security adviser under Trump)
Stephen Boyd (former chief of legislative affairs, FBI)
Joe Biden (president of the United States)
John Brennan (former CIA director under President Barack Obama)
John Carlin (acting deputy attorney general, previously ran DOJ's national security division under Trump)
Eric Ciaramella (former National Security Council staffer, Obama and Trump administrations)
Pat Cippolone (former White House counsel under Trump)
James Clapper (Obama's director of national intelligence)
Hillary Clinton (former secretary of state and presidential candidate)
James Comey (former FBI director)
Elizabeth Dibble (former deputy chief of mission, U.S. Embassy, London)
Mark Esper (former secretary of defense under Trump)
Alyssa Farah (former director of strategic communications under Trump)
Evelyn Farkas (former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia under Obama)
Sarah Isgur Flores (former DOJ head of communications under Trump)
Merrick Garland (attorney general under Biden)
Stephanie Grisham (former press secretary under Trump)
Kamala Harris (vice president under Biden; former presidential candidate)
Gina Haspel (CIA director under Trump)
Fiona Hill (former staffer on the National Security Council)
Curtis Heide (FBI agent)
Eric Holder (former attorney general under Obama)*
Robert Hur (special counsel who investigated Biden over mishandling of classified documents)
Cassidy Hutchinson (aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows)
Nina Jankowicz (former executive director, Disinformation Governance Board, under Biden)
Lois Lerner (former IRS director under Obama)
Loretta Lynch (former attorney general under Obama)
Charles Kupperman (former deputy national security adviser under Trump)
Gen. Kenneth Mackenzie, retired (former commander of United States Central Command)
Andrew McCabe (former FBI deputy director under Trump)
Ryan McCarthy (former secretary of the Army under Trump)
Mary McCord (former acting assistant attorney general for national security under Obama)
Denis McDonough (former chief of staff for Obama, secretary of veterans affairs under Biden)
Gen. Mark Milley, retired (former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Lisa Monaco (deputy attorney general under Biden)
Sally Myer (former supervisory attorney, FBI)
Robert Mueller (former FBI director, special counsel for Russiagate)
Bruce Ohr (former associate deputy attorney general under Obama and Trump)
Nellie Ohr (wife of Bruce Ohr and former CIA employee)
Lisa Page (former legal counsel for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe at FBI under Obama and Trump; exchanged texts about Trump with Peter Strzok)
Pat Philbin (former deputy White House counsel under Trump)
John Podesta (former counselor to Obama; senior adviser to Biden on climate policy)
Samatha Power (former ambassador to the United Nations under Obama, administrator of AID under Biden)
Bill Priestap (former assistant director for counterintelligence, FBI, under Obama)
Susan Rice (former national security adviser under ObMichael Sussman (former legal representative, Democratic National Committee)
Miles Taylor (former DHS official under Trump; penned New York Times op-ED critical of Trump under the byline, "Anonymous”)
Timothy Thibault (former assistant special agent, FBI)
Andrew Weissman (Mueller's deputy in Russiagate probe)
Alexander Vindman (former National Security Council director for European affairs)
Christopher Wray (FBI director under Trump and Biden; Trump nominated Patel to replace him even though Wray's term doesn't expire until August 2027)
Sally Yates (former deputy attorney general under Obama and, briefly, acting attorney general under Trump)

 

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Beerman said:

 

What call to what governor are you talking about?

 

On Jan 21, 2021, Trump made a call to the governor and secretary of state of Georgia, pressuring them to find 10,780 votes, enough to overturn the 2020 vote total in their state. The call was cited in the during the second impeachment and the Georgia election interference case. 

As a Trump supporter, it is hard to fathom that Bondi had never listened to a recording of the call. 

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nursej22 said:

As a Trump supporter, it is hard to fathom that Bondi had never listened to a recording of the call. 

I call this curated ignorance.  We've seen that before in history.  

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nursej22 said:

On Jan 21, 2021, Trump made a call to the governor and secretary of state of Georgia, pressuring them to find 10,780 votes, enough to overturn the 2020 vote total in their state. The call was cited in the during the second impeachment and the Georgia election interference case. 

As a Trump supporter, it is hard to fathom that Bondi had never listened to a recording of the call. 

I'm aware of the call to SOS.  You said governor and didn't say what it was about.  So I didn't know what you were speaking of.

Most people haven't heard the call.  

I'm not sure why it's important that you think she's lying about hearing it.

 

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toomuchbaloney said:

I call this curated ignorance.  We've seen that before in history.  

She might not have heard it, but there's videos and evidence of her talking about it, saying it was "free speech".  So again, maybe she's not lying about not hearing it word for word.  She used her office and position to promote the lie he won the election.  She's an election denier, so honesty and integrity aren't important and fair elections are off the table except 2024 where he won the election and the popular vote fair and square.  It's politics as usual but her loyalty to Trump is deep seated.  

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Tweety said:

She might not have heard it, but there's videos and evidence of her talking about it, saying it was "free speech".  So again, maybe she's not lying about not hearing it word for word.  She used her office and position to promote the lie he won the election.  She's an election denier, so honesty and integrity aren't important and fair elections are off the table except 2024 where he won the election and the popular vote fair and square.  It's politics as usual but her loyalty to Trump is deep seated.  

There's some pretty good evidence that loyalty to Trump was a high priority in choosing cabinet and advisory positions for this incoming administration. The people on Patel's list didn't do anything to Patel, they are people who crossed Trump.  He was advertising his loyalty to Trump's grievances in that book and it got him nominated to the AG spot.

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toomuchbaloney said:

There's some pretty good evidence that loyalty to Trump was a high priority in choosing cabinet and advisory positions for this incoming administration. The people on Patel's list didn't do anything to Patel, they are people who crossed Trump.  He was advertising his loyalty to Trump's grievances in that book and it got him nominated to the AG spot.

I can understand picking people that are going to be loyal to you and your agenda in things like renewing the tax cuts, the border, etc.  But it's another to pick people that supported your lies, false narratives and possible vendettas.  Somehow I just don't feel this administration is going to be the one to restore our faith in these institutions that are weaponized against patriots and that we've lost faith in when they are shady themselves.  Just sayin'

But time will tell.  As an American I really want this administration to be successful and will acknowledge when that happens.

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https://apnews.com/article/chris-wright-energy-trump-cabinet-picks-senate-hearing-7efa240238f13bc8930dadf4a1519cc6

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CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, Wright promised to help Trump "unleash energy security and prosperity.”

The centerpiece of Trump's energy policy is "drill, baby, drill,” and he has pledged to dismantle what he calls Democrats' "green new scam" in favor of boosting production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal, which cause climate change — when they burn, greenhouse gases are released.

The USA achieved historically high fossil fuel production under the outgoing administration.  I bet this guy knows that even though he seems to be singing Trump's dishonest.  At least this fellow understands that fossil fuels are changing our climate and will say it publicly. The coming decade will be interesting.  

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