David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111
Looks like Trumps appointments are going great.
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EXCLUSIVE: The woman at the center of the DOJ's probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources say.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/OkwGK69
Trump can't afford to lose the support of more than three GOP senators for his most contentious nominees, but insiders say far more than three could do just that. There are 30 GOP senators reportedly willing to reject Gaetz nomination. Some have also said discussions are ongoing about trying to persuade Trump to rescind his nomination of Gaetz, or to have Gaetz withdraw his name.
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-2669882840/
Trump's pick of Matt Gaetz to lead the DoJ could prove too much for Senate GOPs, reporter Maggie Haberman said. She added that one shouldn't underestimate the GOP's capacity to swallow their pride for Trump.
https://www.rawstory.com/maggie-haberman-trump-2669882457/
Matt Gaetz is trying to 'make nice' to redo his image with his colleagues to secure the A.G. position. That may be quite difficult to achieve as he has “earned a reputation in Congress as an acid-tongued, anti-establishment knife fighter who didn’t come to Washington to make friends,” He is trying to convince lawmakers “that he has the temperament” to lead the DoJ and not to believe the allegations of sexual misconduct against him involving a minor.
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-2669884098/
Trump announced he's nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the reaction hit fast. "Six months from now, Trump will start asking frantically if polio and diphtheria came from China, too," posted Michael Weiss. Sam Stein wrote on X, "The next head of our Department of Health and Human Services has a brain worm." "Expect a booming market in tiny headstones and infant funeral clothes," Rick Wilson said.
https://www.rawstory.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-2669882266/
CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reine is outraged that Trump wants vaccine-denier (and bear crime scene-stager) Robert F. Kennedy to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services. Reine claimed stated that, "We're putting not just a vaccine denier, but a science skeptic in charge of all of the nation's premier health agencies.... It's, you know, literally putting the fox in charge of the hen house."
https://www.rawstory.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-2669882387/
Chris D. Jackson
@ChrisDJackson
Kerry Kennedy, sister of RFK Jr. and daughter of Robert Kennedy, on her brother:
"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory."
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: “To have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of public health work I think is terrifying for the American public who rely on HHS from cradle to grave for resources for information for public health for oversight of our food and medicines,” Sebelius said. “And that to me is a very frightening aspect for the American public.”
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2669882847/
Trump's team stood by his pick of a Fox News host Pete Hegsethfor the next Pentagon chief despite an allegation of sexual misconduct who was accused of acting inappropriately with a woman. Hegseth claimed the encounter was consensual butcritics have called him an "unserious" pick for the position. At least 26 women have also accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including assault, since the 1970s.
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2669882940/