Matt Gatez and RFK Jr. are 2 cold turkeys who cannot be in Donald Trumps cabinet
All victorious politicians get a honeymoon with the public and the press that can linger for months, perhaps even for 100 days into the term.Except Donald Trump.His lasted about a week and if you blinked, you missed the shortest love fest in political history.He wouldn’t have it any other way.Fresh off his landslide win, the president-elect had the spotlight to himself.
Democrats were mostly stunned into silence and his chummy fireside chat with Joe Biden put an exclamation point on his return from the political boneyard.A smiling Biden’s greeting of “Welcome back” to the White House knee-capped the deniers and the resistance.Take that, Kamala!All the feel-good vibes must have been driving Trump mad.He needed to break up the party by creating some trouble.And so he did.
His nominations of Florida Rep.Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.as head of Health and Human Services slammed the brakes on the honeymoon.Perhaps Thanksgiving came early to Mar-a-Lago and a restless Trump felt the need to act presidential and pick out two turkeys to pardon.Then again, calling Gaetz and Kennedy turkeys is an insult to the real thing.It’s not a close call to say both men are unfit for Cabinet jobs.
There is absolutely nothing in their backgrounds that supports giving them such vast power and responsibility.In fact, their records make overwhelming cases against them.Gaetz is a quicksilver provocateur with a unique reputation in Congress for being untrustworthy, which is quite something to behold given the competition.With his sudden resignation from Congress, he aims to head off the release of an ethics report about various allegations, including that he had sex with an underage woman at a party.Given the stakes, chances the report remains secret are next to zero.Yet now Trump, in picking him to be the attorney general, says Gaetz is qualified to be the chief law-enforcement officer of the United States.In a post on Truth Social, Trump writes that �...