President-elect Donald Trump's key personnel picks, which accelerated the day he met with Joe Biden at the White House, are bold. Some are unexpected. All are the embodiment of a sentiment announcing to the D.C. swamp that no Fs were given in the pursuit of tough people who can hang on to the America First ideal for four years to turn the country away from socialism and stagnation.
These picks were FUs all around.
So far, the former and future president has surrounded himself with the steely-eyed killers he'll need to clean out the rat's nest of mahogany-paneled seventh floors at Langley and the Department of Justice. I can't wait to find out who will lead the FBI.
JD Vance can't move into the Naval Observatory fast enough.
Wednesday's pick of Tulsi Gabbard to lead the Office of National Intelligence, that hot mess of a bureaucracy conceived after the CIA and FBI (except John O'Neill) failed to intercept the bin Laden 9/11 plot, might be a master stroke.
Remember, the thinking at the creation of this behemoth went, sure the CIA messed up and didn't talk to the FBI, so, I know, let's add an entirely new layer of the government spook class to vet information that also won't be passed on! Genius.
I burst out laughing when I heard this pick. Texts to interested parties included plenty of 🚨 🔥 and 😂 emojis.
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As Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Gabbard can find out how truly "not wittingly" the spy agency was spying on Americans. Who better to determine why Americans are being spied on than a person who is currently being spied on?
Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. pic.twitter.com/3xjgjmrLhD
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) September 4, 2024
Please, no lectures. I know Quiet Skies is under the Department of Homeland Security, aka Kristi Noem's soon-to-be province. But being spied on is being spied on and affords Gabbard the unique experience of knowing what it's like to be an American citizen and treated like an enemy of the state.
As part of its portfolio, the Office of National Intelligence "oversee[s] coordination of relationships with the intelligence or security services of foreign governments and international organizations." We can't wait for Gabbard to tell us why the DNI and the spy apparatus being run out of the Obama White House used its Five Eyes allies to spy on the Trump 45 White House. How many laws were broken in pursuit of the ruination of a political opponent?
Get 'em, Tulsi.
Let the healing begin.
To that point, what better way to go after the 7th-floor swells at the Justice Department than a man whose name and reputation were dragged through the muddy bottom of the D.C. swamp to harass a political opponent with a very questionable legal case?
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The gangsters at the DOJ held this ghost case over Matt Gaetz's head to blackmail him into silence. He stayed quiet for a while, but the firebrand Florida congressman outed the DOJ's conspiracy to smear him with a fake child trafficking scandal. After getting outed for their information operation, the DOJ quietly dropped the charges. Oopsie.
It was a low blow, even for Merrick Garland's DOJ.
The main issue with Matt Gaetz is that he used his office to prosecute his political opponents and authorized federal agents to harass parents who were peacefully protesting at school board meetings.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 14, 2024
Oh wait, that's actually Merrick Garland, the current attorney general.
I will bring the popcorn when Gaetz faces the senators on the Judiciary Committee and tells them every detail of why he's the perfect guy to clean house at the DOJ. Bring it on.
Who's this whippersnapper being considered for secretary of defense?
Pete Hegseth was the last person I thought of for this post, but the more I think about it, the more I like it.
Even an old hand like Tony Tata, a retired brigadier Army general, and former number three at the Pentagon for Trump 45, likes the pick.
I had Tata on for an upcoming episode of the Adult in the Room Podcast after we learned about the CNN report about "Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders."
Hegseth should get a hold of the invitation list for that meeting and — rhetorically — open fire.
Current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (D-Raytheon) issued a CYA letter, as Tata put it, to urge Pentagon suits to give Trump a smooth transition.
That's how scared these guys are.
Russia hawk Marco Rubio is up for secretary of state. That will make some Senate confirmers happy, and he should get through the confirmation process smoothly.
The State Department is full of anti-American vipers, whose job as they see it, is to blame America first, use millions of American tax dollars to foment anti-American color revolutions, export tranny story hours to religiously conservative countries, keep George Soros and his minions on speed dial, and pump out abortion propaganda.
They do worse but that will suffice for now.
Rubio, bringing his "voice of freedom," as Trump put it, will look like a profile in courage compared to the prevaricating Tony Blinken. He and Jake Sullivan, and their Hug an Ayatollah payoffs will forever remain a blight on what used to be the good name of the United States of America.
The biggest FU from the Trump 47 White House may be the addition of Stephen Miller to his inner circle of assistants, deputy chiefs of staff, and communications shop.
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Interestingly, Miller will be advising the president on Homeland Security issues, so he'll be in Kristi Noem's ear frequently.
Mike Waltz as national security advisor is excellent. If you doubt it, listen to Jack Carr's interview with him from a recent podcast.
The addition of the two Washington outsiders, independently wealthy founders, innovators, and inventors, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce the size of government would be huge if they can pull it off. Doing big things is in their DNA. Let's hope, however, that they don't tire of the slog this job will be.
The Trump Effect has manifested around the world so far, and it's working domestically. The treacherous Pentagon meeting telegraphed that point. Plus, we've seen reports that the FBI brass meeting around a bottle of Pappy to figure out what their exits will look like.
Tim Walz — remember him? — and his running mate Kamala have seized on the Trump picks to fundraise to bring down her $20,000,000 debt from her billion-plus dollar campaign.
John Fetterman calls Trump's picks "a troll move."
Whatever helps you sleep at night, senator.
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