Summary
Donald Trump’s transition team has bypassed standard FBI background checks for key cabinet nominees, relying instead on private investigators, as reported by CNN.
This breaks decades-old norms meant to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.
Controversial appointees include Matt Gaetz (attorney general), Tulsi Gabbard (director of national intelligence), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (health secretary), all facing scrutiny for past investigations, pro-Russian views, or personal admissions.
Critics argue Trump seeks to undermine traditional vetting, with potential security risks tied to bypassing these checks.
Well duh. That’s what’s a convicted felon would want to do if they got into power.
Of course je did. How else is he going to appoint criminals and people with conflicts of interest ?
Well call this process “efficient” and say that Musk came up with it in his big brain
Another “norm” that we thought was a requirement. The shittiest Civics class.
Tulsi Gabbard as the head of intelligence means the US intelligence community will have a blind spot in Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East. Plus many field agents are going to die. It’s going to be massive set back for Ukraine. And she’s probably going to relay everything to dictators like Putin and Assad. Mahalo Tulsi /s. And fuck your sPiRIt of alOHa
It turns out that the erosion of rights will be done for fun during the real task of butchering the federal infrastructure and agenci6snd selling them to the highest bidding friend
It’s crazy that all these things I thought were laws my whole life turn out to just be “norms” that can be totally ignored
I assume if they’re investigating or vetting anything it’s: will they be loyal to Trump? Anything good to hang on to as blackmail or extortion material?
So, Cheeto is relying on private investigators…run by the Russian FSB. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the Deep State is going to filled with neo-Nazis, religious nutters and Russian agents.
Always has been
So… About that “deep state” I kept hearing about for the past 30 years… Think maybe now it’s probably the time, if there ever was one, to do something to preserve the world order.
Turns out the “deep state” are a bunch of rich people who don’t want to pay taxes. Oops.
The deep state was always meant to mean the FBI, FDA, EPA, and other agencies that while not always forces for good are forces of career bureaucrats that keep the United States a functioning nation.
to his supporters, this just looks like someone who gets things done. and they probably don’t trust the FBI
Lemmy doesn’t offer a way to filter posts by words in the title do they? I’m over hearing anything about this waste of oxygen and his buddies.
Voyager app does… it’s how I don’t see most musk threads.
I have a “muted words” option in Boost to filter out posts by title. Don’t know about any other clients. Sry
Let us know of you find out how. Heard others filtering but that might be on other platforms
No shit, one of his picks has white supremacist tats all over his body, one paid a minor for sex and gave them hardcore drugs, and the other is an actual Russian Agent.
Maybe because the whole fucking thing is a rat king of tangled conflicts of interest. If I were them I wouldn’t want anyone with half a spine to so much as look at me.
My only confidence and hope is that these guys are such monumental fuckups that they won’t be able to string together enough executive function to realize their dark vision.
I am high on the same copium in order to avoid a complete breakdown.
A crook and convicted felon fills his cabinet with folk who probably can’t pass an FBI security screening? Color me shocked.
The robber barons are back, baby
