Trump’s last attorney general was the son of a paedophile who was Epstein’s mentor and gave him his career start.
A paedo Attorney General is part of Trump’s brand.
Trump himself is a pedophile. Which a lot of them know full well and just dismissed as irrelevant because it’s Trump.
What are those phrases? Like follows like and birds of a feather flock together?
Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.
Didn’t know that about Barr’s dad. Gross.
Oh, don’t worry. I’m sure they’ll fall in line in a couple of days and act like Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
It’s funny you put it that way. People are saying Trump will start WWIII and I think you’re closer to the truth. He and Putin and Xi will all stay out of each other’s way and maybe occasionally fight a proxy war here and there to maintain power in perpetuity.
Why go to war with each other when you can just leave each other alone and let everyone else do the fighting?
Besides, Trump is beholden to Putin and Putin and Xi are buddies (Putin might even be beholden to Xi at this point considering Russia’s money issues). Who is going to go to war with who?
The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump wants to go 3 for 3.
The poor, poor people on Lemmy having to suffer more Reddit content on Lemmy.
It’s like how we screenshot 4 chan.
Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one
I’m just really hoping Trump will piss off republicans in Congress fast enough that they stop supporting him before he can cause any real harm.
Former President Trump said the “biggest mistake” of his presidency was picking “bad, disloyal people” to join his administration.
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It boggles the mind that anybody would be expecting Trump to consider anything but loyalty for his appointments.
I imagine the conversations going a bit like “You are going to be part of my cabinet. I’m told it’s not the type of cabinet you put things in, but a group of people that make decisions and handle all the boring stuff. My cabinet is going to be the best most beautiful cabinet anyone has ever seen. Here’s the hat with available positions. Let’s see what you get.”
“a hat comes with the cabinet position”
Trump is trying to legitimize pedophilia. He doesn’t want to be the only one guilty of it in his circle
How long until he gets replaced and Trump releases the info to burn the bridge entirely and install an even worse person?
I think it’s slightly different than what you’re suggesting. I’m thinking he’s picking the worst people he can pick for these jobs so they get denied and his next pick, which is almost as bad, gets approved instead.
Either way, he mostly gets what he wants… and if whatever attorney general finally does get approved ends up fucking up, which they will, Trump can say, “not my fault, I nominated Gaetz.”
I think you’re assigning a level of intelligence that Trump simply doesn’t have here. He’s absolutely not planning for anything more than 10 seconds ahead. He’s got a list of people he knows will do anything he says and he’s installing them wherever with no rhyme or reason.
Sorry, I’m not trying to suggest this plan was come up with by Trump himself. It would be the people behind him.
Does seem like a Roger Stone tactic.
Hard disagree on this. This has Trump’s stench all over it. Every person being tapped for these positions is a Trump sycophant, and none of them are even remotely qualified to do the job he’s trying to assign them.
I agree that Trump is not good at planning, well, anything. But none of this feels like a plan. It’s all: “I like PersonX. I will hire them.” If it feels like a very stupid, short-sighted, and childish thing, it’s because Trump is a stupid, short-sighted child.
There is no plan for what happens if Gaetz doesn’t get confirmed, just like there was no plan informing his selection of Gaetz. If Gaetz doesn’t get confirmed, Trump will make a few all-caps posts on Truth Social, and then nominate another sycophant. He’s got so many to choose from these days.
That’s brilliant, which means that trump isn’t thinking that. He’s picking the absolute worst people, because he always chooses the absolute worst options for any given choice. We already lived through this reality for four years.
Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein
Pass it on
Extremely stable geniuses.
Looks like they’re finally starting to find out.
You are very brave to go over there…
To be fair, I got this from elsewhere. I am not that brave.
Truly “me and the boys” type of picks
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But please don’t use my links to downvote things there or tag the users posting right wing crap there as Right-wing Nutjobs or anything like that
How could they possibly know that Donnie favors sycophancy over aptitude?!?
I can think of a lot of worse picks.
Yeah, for real. These guys lack imagination if Matt Gaetz for AG is the “worst possible” pick for AG.
How about AG Barack Obama?
How about AG George Soros?
How about AG Vermin Supreme?
Trump is real fucking stupid, but he’s smart enough to pick someone who isn’t going to be good at the job of prosecuting criminals considering he is one. His one criteria for this position is loyalty and Gaetz seems to have that going for him. Doesn’t matter in the end of he’s ineffective because Trump doesn’t have an interest in actually governing.
