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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Nov 12, 2024.

  1. juicystream

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    Do we start with Matt Gaetz?
     
  2. deb4rockets

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    It gets even worse. Trump names former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary

    The whole Ring Boys abuse scandal is some disturbing stuff. WWE, TKO, Vince & Linda McMahon are now facing another sexual assault lawsuit from former Ring Boys. The stuff went on for years!

    It reminds me of the abuse on Olympian gymnasts and athletes at Ohio State, where people in charge turned a blind eye to the abuse going on under their eyes. The ring boys were as young as 12. It's sickening, just like those girls groomed and abused by Epstein and his pedo friends. There's Jim Jordan, another Trumper is a prime example of a guy who turned a blind eye to the abuse at Ohio State. It's gross how all these people in Trump's orbit like Gaetz, Trump, Jordan, or this new billionaire Education pick were either involved in abusing minors or turning a blind eye to the abuse.

    The sad part is that so many victims of sexual abuse are so scared to speak up because they know how hard it is to prove, especially against people with power and money. I think it's probably even harder for boys. The whole church scandal stuff is a good example, with victims finally speaking out decades later. There's a link to the actual court filing in the bottom attachment.

    https://www.wrestlinginc.com/169587...face-sexual-assault-lawsuit-former-ring-boys/

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-lawsuit-vince-mcmahon-linda-tko/75814539007/
     
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  3. Agent94

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    The MAGA version of I have a black friend.
     
  4. ThatBoyNick

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    Breaking: Trump is appointing the duck dynasty guys as head of PETA
     
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  5. Agent94

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    No charges being brought is not the same as innocent. Marj knows he is guilty.

    MTG says she will expose ‘sexual harassment claims’ against Republicans if Gaetz report released.
    https://www.the-independent.com/new...greene-matt-gaetz-ethics-report-b2650038.html

    I'm sure powerful people on both sides of the aisle wanted Gaetz' crimes buried because they don't want the pubic to know about all the other sexual harassment.
     
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  7. Commodore

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    oh man, if they start leaking ethics investigation details for a single congressman, that will open a pandora's box
     
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    I wonder if the My Pillow guy will get a spot.

    I'm sure Hannity and Carlson would have gotten offered positions too, but they probably wouldn't want to leave their day jobs.
     
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    republican threatening republicans to cover for all sexual predators or threatening to expose them all. withholding these reports from the public is corruption and lying to american citizens.

    LET THE PUBLIC SEE THE ENTIRE EPSTEIN FILE AND DECIDE
     
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  10. jo mama

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    good. open it. if there are other sitting members of congress who engaged in statutory rape we should know about that.

    funny how right-wingers now want to protect the child predators.
     
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  11. jo mama

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    so congressman mickey rourke knows about sitting members of congress who have had sex with underage girls and sexually harassed other members of congress, but she is keeping quiet about it? i thought she was some kind of crusader against groomers and sex predators, but she is protecting them right now.

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  12. Sajan

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    They are gonna tear each other apart from the inside. This will be fun.
     
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  13. Commodore

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    for the same reason if you decline to prosecute you don't release the details of your investigation
     
  14. Sajan

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  15. jo mama

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    the DOJ investigation is different from the house one and the only reason it’s not being released is because gaetz resigned. but you already knew that.

    none of yall are even trying to deny that he had sex with an underage girl or did any of the other things he has been accused of. you just don’t want the results the investigation out there and we all know why.

    look at you. defending insurrections and statutory rapists.
     
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    https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/1...es-on-witnesses-doj-found-lacked-credibility/

    Among the many powerful figures in Washington, D.C. opposed to the Gaetz nomination are some who are attempting to thwart it by releasing a report from the House Ethics Committee that will attempt to tie Gaetz to salacious allegations involving child sex trafficking.

    The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general.

    The two witnesses have massive credibility problems. The claims arose from Joel Greenberg, “one of the most corrupt Florida politicians of all time,” according to Florida reporter Marc Caputo, who is now with the anti-Trump media outlet The Bulwark.

    Among many things the former Seminole County tax collector admitted to as part of a wide-ranging case for which he is currently serving 11 years in prison was falsely accusing local political opponent Brian Beute of having sex with a minor, similar to the outlandish claim he made against Gaetz. Greenberg also reportedly later attempted to frame his own attorney with pornographic images of children. One New York Times writeup of Greenberg was headlined, “Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector.“

    According to the Washington Post, Greenberg admitted to “fabricating allegations against a schoolteacher who was running against him to be a tax collector. Greenberg had sent letters to the school falsely claiming the teacher had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student — a similar allegation to the Gaetz case.” U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, appointed by President Bill Clinton, said Greenberg’s actions against that innocent victim were “downright evil.”

    Yet even the DOJ was unwilling to exploit Greenberg’s unsubstantiated claims — apart from leaking them to the press to hurt Gaetz’s reputation. They announced their closure of the investigation in 2022.

    The House Ethics Committee, however, decided to pick up the dropped and deflated ball and run with it a full year after DOJ dropped the investigation. The fact that the disgraced Greenberg was cooperating with the House Ethics Committee was shared for publication with The New York Times and other media outlets.

    The DOJ decided that the people making the accusations against Gaetz had such massive credibility problems that they could in no way charge him with any crimes. All the House Ethics Committee has done is revive those same accusations from the same unreliable witnesses.

    As they did with the salacious accusations contained in the Democrat-funded Russia collusion dossier and the Washington Post’s unsubstantiated report against then-federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, the people who run Washington appear not to be concerned about the validity of the accusations so much as the ability to use them to stop a political opponent.
     
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    Matt Whitaker and Dr Oz seem like obvious people Trump is putting in easy positions to get senate confirmed that way he can later slide them into more important roles.

    The Dems in the Senate need to treat the Whitaker hearings as if they are judging him as the next AG. NATO ambassador is an empty suit position anyways. We all know Trump and Elon are going to be the ones calling the shots. Whitaker is just going to be getting drunk in Brussels for a few months until they can pull him off the sideline to go run the DOJ.
     
  18. jo mama

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    elon is playing the role that JD vance envisioned for himself. speaking of vance, where is he? have not heard much of anything from him since the election. is he involved in any of these cabinet selections? he didnt get to be a part of the mcdonalds photo-op with fatboy, elon, RFKjr or donnie jr. even mike johnson got to sneak himself in there.

    i wonder if trump selected him as VP to neuter and kill his political career. he might be more upset about vance calling him hitler than he has let on.
     
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    I like the wizard breh
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