Responding to a CNN report that Trump is skipping FBI background checks for some of his cabinet nominees, including Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard (Trump’s pick to be Director of National Intelligence), the gimlet-eyed attorney Cleta Mitchell observed that “Obama didn’t have FBI vet his nominees because the nominees were corrupt; Trump isn’t having FBI vet his nominees because the FBI is corrupt.” Bingo.
NR concludes by sniffing that “the standards of fitness for an office of high public trust—and it doesn’t get much higher than attorney general—are considerably loftier than whether one manages to evade criminal prosecution.” But how about if that prosecution was actually politically motivated persecution? We have been treated to that spectacle again and again as the fate of the J6-ers and Donald Trump and various parents visiting school board meetings will remind you.
And what if Gaetz had been the object, as so many regime critics have been, of a groundless DOJ witch hunt? After all, the establishment hates Matt Gaetz, especially people like Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray who have suffered under his cross-examination.
Will Trump prevail? Will controversial nominees like Matt Gaetz get confirmed? Former Congressman and present faux-conservative commentator Trey Gowdy is one of many who say no.
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