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“The only reason to nominate someone like Patel to run the FBI is to commit impeachable abuses of power. Trump makes no secret that this is, in fact, his purpose. Patel is similarly explicit on the point. Yet the Senate might very well confirm the man once Trump removes the incumbent FBI director and nominates Patel to replace him. … If it actually does so, would that constitute ‘consent’ to impeachable offenses?”
“Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen.”
— Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), quoted by NBC News, on Pete Hegseth’s nomination of to be Defense Secretary.
The author of an email critical of Fox News host-turned-Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth threatened New Yorker writer Jane Mayer that “if you print that, I will deny I wrote it,” and when Mayer reminded him “that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses,” the author wrote, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”
“When people say these nominees are not qualified, they are perfectly qualified for what they are being put there for. They are being put there, not to run these departments, but to wreck these departments. By the standards of what Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and others are trying to do, deconsruct the administrative state. Steve Bannon quoted in the New York Times: ‘Donald Trump is a blunt force instrument applying blunt force trauma to the system.’ They want to destroy the system, not to build. So they’re very wll qualified for that.”
– John Heilemann, chief political columnist for Puck News,speaking on MSNBC
“The Hebrew Hammer is coming.”
— House Republican candidate and Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) said that progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should consider leaving Congress if he is elected, The Hill reports.
President-elect Donald Trump offered his Thanksgiving greeting: “Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“He promises his base crazy shit. He then announces that he’s about to do the crazy shit. The media freaks out at the prospect of said crazy shit. Trump then wriggles out of doing the crazy shit and — this is the key part — his voters give him credit for the crazy shit anyway.”
“If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring grocery prices down, I have some very bad news for you.”
— Catherine Rampell, on CNN.
“Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the U.S. military. … The order could come on his first day back in the White House, January 20. There are believed to be about 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender. They would be medically discharged, which would determine that they were unfit to serve.”
“If everyone is a sexual predator, then no one’s history of misdeeds matters (or, at least, no one needs to be held accountable). … MAGA Republicans seem to be having their own #MeToo moment, except here, a growing cohort of men is essentially saying: Oh, another man accused of sexual predation? #MeToo—and so what? Being accused of sexual harassment, abuse, or assault is no longer disqualifying; on the right, it has been normalized. It may even be an asset.”
