Get your popcorn; the cabinet confirmation hearings are underway. We all know that no matter how totally unqualified and bad the proposed Trump appointees are... the GOP Senators will still vote them through. Yet the hearings will provide hours of entertainment -- as the proposed appointees endless fumble basic questions while altering reality & facts. Team Trump faces the Senate: Six top picks in confirmation hearings https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ace-senate-confirmation-hearings/77703322007/ WASHINGTON – Welcome to Confirmapalooza. Senate Committees are questioning six of Donald Trump’s top appointees over their priorities and positions on issues of war, spycraft, electric cars and more. The prospective nominees will help form the backbone of the second Trump administration, and include a lawyer from the president-elect’s 2019 impeachment defense team, a trusted Senate foreign affairs hand, a MAGA intelligence leader, a 90s reality TV star turned Republican congressman. Pam Bondi, Trump's choice for Attorney General, is the main event, parrying skeptical questions from some Democratic senators and engaging warmly with Republicans on the panel. Wednesday’s hearings come one day after former Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, emerged unscathed from a Democratic firestorm at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth, once considered one of Trump’s most vulnerable cabinet picks, now seems headed for confirmation. Hearings Wednesday include: Pam Bondi for attorney general, 9:30 a.m. Bondi is a former Florida state attorney general and served on Trump’s 2019 defense team. Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state, 10 a.m. Rubio, of Florida, was ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John Ratcliffe, CIA director, 10 a.m. Ratcliffe is a former member of congress from Texas and served as Director of National Intelligence in the first Trump administration. Sean Duffy, transportation secretary, 10 a.m. Duffy, a former member of Congress from Wisconsin, is a Fox Business host and appeared in MTV’s “The Real World: Boston” in the late ‘90s. Chris Wright, energy secretary, 10 a.m. Wright is an oil and gas executive who leads North America’s second-biggest fracking company. Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget, 1 p.m. Vought ran the office in the first Trump White House and is associated with the controversial Project 2025, which Trump disavowed on the campaign trail. (More at above url)
Tulsi Gabbard -- not a brain cell to be found. Trump’s Pick to Lead National Intelligence Couldn’t Say What the Job Actually Is DIRECTOR OF WHAT? Tulsi Gabbard also made another blunder relating to a key surveillance power while meeting with senators, according to a report. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...gabbard-couldnt-say-what-the-job-actually-is/
For vetting a candidate or a check on presidential power, US Senate confirmation hearings have become about as useful as an asshole on your elbow. The death of the Senate confirmation hearing https://www.politico.com/newsletter...h-of-the-senate-confirmation-hearing-00198291
Bondi said that she never listened to the Trump Georgia tape. She heard clips but never listened to enough of the hour long call to form an opinion. I for one am completely persuaded since she is under oath and all.
Let's catch up with the entertainment from Pam Bondi confirmation hearing today... where North Carolina GOP Senator, Thom Tillis, appears to be confused again. Confused GOP senator defends QAnon followers on cannibalism because 'shaman' is vegetarian https://www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-qanon/ A seemingly confused Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) defended Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman, because he was reportedly a vegetarian. During Wednesday's confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) noted that Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, had expressed belief in QAnon conspiracy theories. "Its core belief is that a cabal of satanic, cannibalistic, child molesters are embedded within our government and are conspiring against President-elect Trump," Durbin explained. Tillis later appeared outraged at the idea QAnon followers would be cannibals because Chansley — a QAnon leader — was a vegetarian. "It's a little-known fact, but the so-called, I think I heard someone say that that's an organization, a cabal that has cannibalistic tendencies," Tillis explained. "I don't know if y'all know this, it's a well-documented fact that the so-called QAnon Shaman is a vegetarian who actually had to be transferred to another prison to satisfy his dietary needs after being sentenced to 41 months in prison." "So I don't know if all the QAnon people are cannibals, but it's a little bit absurd." In fact, members of the QAnon movement believed "that Satan-worshipping global and Hollywood elites run a massive child trafficking ring to drain their blood and harvest the chemical adrenochrome to stay young," according to a report in Forbes. While he appeared to be confused about the group on Wednesday, Tillis has previously expressed belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory that COVID-19 death counts were inflated to encourage people to use social distancing. Watch the video below or at this link.
Sad but true.I wish Senate conformation and impeachment trial votes were anonymous so Senators counldnt be threatened with primary challengers.
Trump’s Treasury Pick Vows to Give Back to the Rich in Bleak Hearing Scott Bessent used his confirmation hearing to make clear that he cares about the rich and the rich only. https://newrepublic.com/post/190334...bessent-rich-taxes-wages-confirmation-hearing
Yep... the GOP Senate will basically confirm anyone for Trump. No matter how unqualified or insane they are. Trump’s outsider Cabinet picks are rapidly gaining support for confirmation https://apnews.com/article/trump-cabinet-confirmation-hearings-e12dcbc5d26d675414331d9a35cab6a6