Sunday, January 8, 2017

Trump’s Cabinet: So Sad!



UPDATE 1/11/2017: Meet the latest National Security Cabinet pick, Monica Crowley, plagiarist extraordinaire who once suggested President Obama “lied about being Black”!!! (Paste to browser to view “Trump pick Monica Crowley has a plagiarism problem” link at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/09/monica-crowley-plagiarism/96378590/

 
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Con-in-Chief Conway and the Fans of Xenophobia Misiinformation Network are head over heels with Trump's cabinet picks marching lock-step to the Trump Transition Team's  "detailed written  instructions" on how to describe his Cabinet  - “excellent” “world class”, “ideal” “extraordinary”  “extremely qualified”!

(Kind of like Trump’s “massive landslide” - one of the lowest Electoral College wins in history while getting elected by barely 1/4 ( 26% ) of eligible voters and losing by nearly 3 million popular votes!)


The non-partisan Government Office of Ethics has, already, sounded the alarm about the Republican Senate’s rush to confirm Trump’s top cabinet choices “without being properly vetted for conflicts of interests”!

Meet the Cabinet…

VICE PRESIDENT PICK MIKE PENCE -  Oversaw cutting 2.18 million from state domestic violence funding as Governor; signed a bill banning abortions due to a non-viable fetus as Governor; signed the anti-LGBT bill that allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBT people  as Governor; sponsored the first bill to defund Planned Parenthood while in Congress;  signed a bill to stop local minimum wage increases in Indiana; pushed for the Republican-led government shut-down costing taxpayers $24 billion while in Congress; pushed to block birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants while in Congress.

CHIEF STRATEGIST STEPHEN BANNON - Nationalist media mogul and Breibart-bred voice for bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism with no governing experience.


WHITE HIOUSE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM SEAN SPICER, HOPE HICKS, JASON MILLER, DAN SCAVINO - The same crew who played the press and media with threats, contradictory 'explanations' of actual words that came out of Trump's mouth,  misinformation, disinformation, fact-free accusations and “a campaign built on lies”!
 
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS -  Fill the swamp Alabama Senator who argued passionately for a Muslim ban; voted against an amendment stating the that Senate would not create policies that discriminate based on religion; failed a bid for a federal judge post; and has a public record of making "anti-voting rights" and  “racially insensitive statements”.

HEALTH SECRETARY CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TOM PRICE
“Traded more than $300,000 in shares of health-related companies over the past four years while sponsoring and advocating congressional legislation that potentially could affect those companies’ stocks”! In addition, “bought and sold stock in about 40 health-care, pharmaceutical and biomedical companies since 2012, including a dozen in the current congressional session” according to a Wall Street Journal review.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR MICHAEL FLYNN -  A man who retweeted bigoted slurs against Muslims; demonstrates an odd fixation with tweeting and retweeting fake news;  lost his job in the military in part because he gave “classified information” to Pakistan without anyone’s approval, and is still on probation from when he gave classified information to his mistress!

HUD SECRETARY BEN CARSON - A man who, openly, admitted to “not being qualified for any cabinet position”;  admittedly  knifing someone in the stomach as a youth; and rambled on and on about Lucifer during a Convention speech!

LABOR SECRETARY ANDY PUZDER - A billionaire making 300 times his employees while opposing a federal minimum wage increase in favor of “adopting the automation phenomenon” whereby “you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person! When the Department of Labor visited his restaurants they found that “half his restaurants had wage and labor violations that violated the laws of the United States”!

SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON - ExxonMobil CEO with “very limited familiarity with many complex issues ranging from nuclear weapons to numerous treaty relationships to decade-long conflicts”.  Maintains a “very close business relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, and shows little sign that he knows much about Trump’s favorite foreign whipping post - China!

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LINDA MCMACHOM - Trump’s too close for comfort pay-for-play pick who made her fortune staging fake wrestling matches for entertainment!

SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION MITCH MCCONNELL’S SWAMP INSIDER  WIFE ELAINE CHAO - Another too close for comfort pay-for-play pick.  Served eight years as Labor Secretary under President George W. Bush. In 2011, served in the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel which concluded in a 118-page report that “Elaine Chao, along with numerous other Bush administration officials used their government titles and authority illegally in partisan activity”!

ATTORNEY GENERAL KRIS KOBACH - Actually designed and implemented a Muslim registry while working in the Bush administration after 9/11. Helped craft the controversial 2010 Arizona immigration bill which went as far as the Supreme Court and loss!

EDUCATION SECRETARY BETSY DEVOS - Billionaire and conservative activist spending millions of dollars to expand voucher programs to pay for private and religious schools.  A perfect fit for Trump’s campaign promise to break up the public education system with no governing experience!

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SCOTT PRUITT - An avid climate change denier!

SECRETARY OF ENERGY RICK PERRYL - Another climate change denier and former Texas governor and presidential candidate who, during a presidential debate, couldn’t remember the name of the very agency, he will soon head!

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: RETIRED MARINE CORPS GENERAL JAMES “MAD DOG” MATTIS - In 2004, as commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in Iraq during the Battle of Fallujah which was characterized by some as “war crimes”.   After his military assignment, he  joined corporate boards and quickly earned millions in salary and stock options!

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY GENERAL JOHN KELLY - Opposed opening combat positions to qualified servicewomen claiming such efforts “would lead to lower standards and decreased military combat effectiveness”!

US AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY - No experience with international challenges associated with violent extremism, nuclear threats to cyber security, world poverty and foreign entanglements in Syria and Iraq.

Excellent” “world class”, “ideal” “extraordinary”  “extremely qualified”?

"So sad"!

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Call members of the Republican Senate!
Tell them that casting ethics aside to  sell-out to Trump over what is in the best interests of  the American people will cost them your vote in 2018!

Tips on Calling Your Member of Congress


 

Mitch McConnell

202-224-2541
 
United States Capital Switchboard
202-224-3121

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SOURCES
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Director of Government Ethics Office is alarmed Trump Cabinet Picks Haven’t Been Fully Vetted
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../trump-conflict-of-interests_us_58714bb1e4b099cdb0fd..


Ethics official warns against confirmations before reviews are complete
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ethics

 
Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory was not a “massive landslide”
http://www.politifact.com/...trump/donald-trumps-electoral-college-victory-was-not-ma/

It’s official: Clinton outpaced Trump in popular vote by almost 3 million
http://wtvr.com/2016/12/21/its-oficial-clinton-o

26 Percent of Eligible Voters Voted for Trump | Mises Wire

Puppet Masters: Memo: The Trump line on his cabinet picks

Donald Trump’s cabinet picks aren’t just awful.  They’re an intentional dumpster fire

Trump’s Cabinet picks sounding alarm bells - WND.com

Meet Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting- POLITICO

Donald Trump’s labor secretary pick Andy Puzder, who makes 300 times his employees, opposes minimum wage hike

Should we trust Tillerson

Trump’s Cabinet is going to Be as Bonkers as You Thought

Trump’s Cabinet is a Coup Waiting to Happen

Kris Kobach: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Nikki Haley is Trump‘s pick for US ambassador to UN

Trump picks billionaire Betsy DeVos, school voucher advocate, as education secretary

Roberts Reich completely embarrasses Donald Trump surrogate over anti-worker cabinet

Draining the swamp? Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, to be Trump’s transportation secretary

Is Session, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Trying to Paper Over His Record

Critics See Stephen Bannon, Trump’s Pick for Strategist, as Voice of Racism
Gov. Pence signs revised Indiana religious freedom bill into law - Washington Post

Mike Pence launched Republicans’ war on Planned Parenthood - VOX

The wrong side of domestic violence - Nuvo

Mike Pence’s VP Debate Lies, Easily Fact-Checked | GQ

Journalists Are Calling Out Mike Pence For Lying About Things
Pants on Fire Analysis Shows 60% of FOX News Facts are Really Lies
https://www.mintpressnews.com/pants-on-fire-analysis-shows-60-of-fox...lies
 
Analysis: FOX News Only Tells the Truth 22% of the Time
https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-analysis-reveals-fox-news-only-tells.../214456/
 
FOX Watch - A Long list of examples of FOX News lying, misleading, or
https://www.officeofstrategicinfluence.com/issues.php?issues=fox

Kellyanne Conway calls CIA report on Russian election meddling ‘laughable and ridiculous’

Kellyanne Conway defends Donald Trump’s response to Russian
www.cbsnews.com/.../kellyanne-conway-defends-donald-trumps-response-to-russian-...

Nate Silver Destroys Kellyanne Conway’s Ridiculous Claim That
www.politicususa.com/.../trump-train-bursts-flames-trump-accuses-camp...

Kellyanne Conway tells hilarious lie about Trump wanting another debate
www.dailykos.com/…/-Kellyanne-Conway-tells-hilarious-lies-about-Trump... 


 

 

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