Trump Has Destroyed The Utility Of The FBI Vetting Nominees

Originally published at: Trump Has Destroyed The Utility Of The FBI Vetting Nominees

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The FBI Never Vetted Nominees The Way You Think We should all understand by now that the vaunted FBI “background check” – in the context of presidential nominees, not run-of-the-mill security clearances – is not…

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Am I frist?

eta: Guess I’ll mosy over to the thread about the former Amazon lobbyist.

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Loyalty is all that matters to trump.
And that loyalty is in one direction only…

Tiger at 21 years young…

Tiger had a soul mate who tended to lack style…
His name was Spanky… the fat cat

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“A common sentiment on the left is that Garland was too deferential to Trump after Joe Biden took office and failed to unleash the full might of the department on the former president for nearly two years. … But Smith’s report emphasized that the Justice Department was aggressively investigating leads related to Trump long before the special counsel’s tenure began. Litigation tactics by Trump and his allies, Smith argued, were the key factors that slowed the process to a crawl.”

If this is true, I will be anxious to see how Trump’s efforts to go after his enemies using the DOJ grind to a halt and don’t even make it to indictment in 4 years.

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From the Politico link:

And when Kaine raised questions about Hegseth’s past infidelity, Hegseth responded that his seven-year-old daughter born from that relationship is a “child of God.”

So are his first two children not also children of God?

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Sounds like fraud to me. I guess that makes it in character for the president-elect. So my question is who do I report this sort of fraud to? Apparently, United States law enforcement is corrupted to the highest level. Further, the last hope for democracy as we’ve known it in our nation, the so-called ”fourth estate” of democracy - the free press, is corrupted as well.

I am just wondering, at what point should we be concerned?

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The joke nomination of Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary picked up crucial support from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) despite a flailing confirmation hearing in which Senate Republicans did everything they could to protect and shield the singularly unfit and unqualified nominee. If you missed the hearing, a sampling of the rundowns:

I didn’t miss it - just didn’t waste time on it.

By the way, the joke nomination? The joke is on the American people.

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From my perspective, we’re way past the point, as in horse and barn door past the point.

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The FBI? ETTD. And that was already true in 2016, when Comey put out the report because he was scared of the NY office.

As for Mace, Crockett should take her up on it and sell tickets. Mace will be happy – she gets publicity and a share of the gate.

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Anytime now.

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But can the bell being unrung?

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Not in this environment.

Remember that fully a third of the country thinks this is all wonderful. Silent majority counts for nothing.

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Trump has destroyed [fill in the blank]

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They are Children of Hell.

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Didn’t Superman reverse time by flying around the Earth and making it spin backwards?

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Child support payments must be eating at him.

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And look at what happened to the actor portraying this. He had to kiss a dude in that other movie.

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I remember going thru my security clearance…
Quite thorough it was…

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Not really a meaningful comparison when you have people who obey the law and care about carefully meeting due process and other legal standards on one side versus people on the other side who really couldn’t give a flying rat’s pink patoot about any of that and will simply cook up whatever delusional fascist nonsense they can think of and then act on it as if the Constitution doesn’t exist.

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