Tag: trump nominating unqualified people to top government positions
Trump’s Unqualified Picks & Scandal Ridden, Criminal Administration
Trump promised to “Hire the Best People” but hired the worst, most incompetent people imaginable… several of whom were convicted of crimes.
Litany of Campaign staff, Cabinet members, Lawyers for Trump and personal businesses which have found themselves in legal trouble
Five Trump Cabinet Officials Were Referred To Federal Prosecutors
Trump Swamp: A Look Back At The Criminals Around Trump
In the wake of the arrest of Trump ally Thomas Barrack, here’s a reminder of some of the people surrounding Trump who were accused of, convicted of, or pleaded guilty to crimes.
Trump Legacy Littered With Cabinet Catastrophes
Rachel Maddow looks back at long list of Donald Trump Cabinet members who left the administration in scandal and disgrace. Aired on 12/11/2020.
Steve Bannon admits Trump’s Cabinet Nominees were selected to destroy the Agencies they were Hired to Head
Trump promised to “Hire the Best People” but hired some of the worst people imaginable who got their positions, not as a result of being qualified, but a reward for being Republican Party Loyalists.
Keith Olbermann comments about Trump’s picks
Donald Trump’s extremely unqualified nominees
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, had an especially cringeworthy Senate confirmation hearing this week.
GOP strategist Steve Schmidt weighs in on the report detailing questionable hires & activity within the White House & it’s personnel office
Alex Acosta resigns from U.S. government after furor over Jeffrey Epstein plea deal
U.S. Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta on Friday resigned after earlier in the week defending the way he handled a sex abuse case against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein while Acosta was a federal prosecutor.
Trump Treasury Secretary Pick Steven Mnuchin
Who Is Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Pick For Treasury Secretary?
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Steven Mnuchin, a Wall Street veteran and hedge fund manager with ties to the U.S. housing crisis, to be his treasury secretary. So, how is this draining the swamp?
Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, took advantage of the 2008 mortgage crisis by foreclosing on over 35,000 homes
Colleen Hodroff is a widow whose house was foreclosed on by Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury nominee.
Ads exposes how Steve Mnuchin took Woman’s House away
All In with Chris Hayes Video: Trump Voters Home FORECLOSED by Trumps Pick for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin
Incoming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin MADE 100’s of MILLIONS by foreclosing on thousands of homeowners who were railroaded by the bank to believe if they became three months late on their mortgage they would be eligible to restructure their home loans.
Trump Fills the Swamp With Steven Mnuchin
Bernie Sanders destroys Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for their lies and hypocrisy.
Steven Mnuchin Costing Taxpayers $800,000 Using Military Jets
Rachel Maddow reports on new revelations about the excessive cost of plane travel by Secretary Mnuchin, the same scandal that drove Secretary Price from his job, and which has also been exposed in Secretary Zinke and others.
Trump chief strategist pick Steve Bannon
Rachel Maddow’s video overview of Trump’s newly named chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose record includes right-wing media ventures and white nationalist leanings (quote from video description).
Who Is Steve Bannon?
The bizarre route Steve Bannon took from Goldman Sachs, to Hollywood, and ultimately the White House
Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Tom Price
Pattern Of Abuse Of Taxpayer Money Seen In Wealthy Donald Trump Staff
Rachel Maddow reports on the latest in a remarkable list of Trump administration departures, this time of HHS secretary Tom Price, disgraced for his abuse of expensive private planes, though not the only Donald Trump staffer with that problem.
ABC NEWS: Trump Cabinet Members Under Fire for Travel Spending
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is now facing scrutiny along with HHS Sec. Tom Price and Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin for taking chartered and government flights at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars to taxpayers.
Michael Flynn
Pentagon IG Reports DoD Knew Mike Flynn Was a Traitor Back in 2014
Trump’s Pick for National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn
A Federal Judge demolished the Trump-Fox News conspiracy theories surrounding the Michael Flynn guilty plea, getting Flynn to admit under oath that he “was aware” lying to the FBI was a crime. Ari Melber walks through the different arguments made by Trump and right-wing media claiming a conspiracy on the part of the Mueller probe, demonstrating how these were rejected in court.
Title from MSNBC: Trump adviser Flynn met with leader of party founded by ex-Nazis
Description from MSNBC: The NY Times reports that Trump’s National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, met with the leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, founded by Nazis in the 1950s.
Keith Olbermann details a list of violations he feels Flynn committed and shows images of Flynn in Russia seated at a table with Vladimir Putin at a banquet.
Guilty: Paul Manafort Convicted In First Mueller Probe Trial
Former Trump campaign chair, Paul Manafort, has been convicted on 8 counts in the first Mueller probe trial, with the judge declaring a mistrial on the remaining 10 counts. Former DOJ trial lawyer, Ty Kelly, tells “The Beat” Manafort is looking at “a very significant jail time”.
Rick Gates Testifies He Committed To Crimes With Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort’s former deputy right hand man, Rick Gates, admitted to committing crimes with former Trump campaign chief on the witness stand. Gates said he hid millions of dollars from the IRS in offshore bank accounts at Manafort’s direction.
Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump’s cabinet has been rife with scandal from the beginning of his term, and rounds up recent reports of brazen corruption by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
Video shows the disturbing trend of domestic violence-related scandals in the Trump White House as apparently no vetting is done of nominees to high level positions.
Video title: Public (School) Enemy No. 1: Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary
Video description: Donald Trump nominated conservative billionaire Betsy DeVos to serve as Education Secretary. DeVos is the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools.
In response, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, “In nominating DeVos Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.” Since 1970, the DeVos family has invested at least $200 million in various right-wing causes. DeVos’s father-in-law is the co-founder of Amway and her brother is Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater.
For more, we speak to former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch, Center for Media and Democracy executive director Lisa Graves, and elected member of the Detroit Board of Education Tawanna Simpson.
$13,420,000 to Heritage Foundation via her family foundation
It appears Billionaire Betsy Devos appointment as Education Secretary is being given as a “Gratuity” for all the Millions she gave to Republicans because she is clearly not qualified to fill this position.
Despite the fact that Devos is not qualified and Thousands of people protested against her appointment, ONLY TWO REPUBLICANS opposed her nomination.
Proving once again that it’s a MISTAKE to vote for REPUBLICANS because they don’t listen to their constituents and ALWAYS side with Big Business, Billionaires and Corporations.
The problem with Trump’s pick for Education Secy.
Senator Maggie Hassan weighs in on Betsy DeVos’ alarming answers on basic civil rights for children.
What can Betsy DeVos do to American schools?
Rep. Dan Kildee joins Joy Reid to talk about DeVos’ record in Michigan and what she will have the power to do as she takes the helm at the Department of Education.
Education Secretary Betsy Devos Blocked From Entering DC School
Devos was met with protesters when she tried to use the main entrance to a public school in Washington, DC. One protestor yells, Shame! Shame! Shame!
Who is Stephen Miller? Meet Trump’s Senior Advisor for Policy, Narrated by Debra Messing
Stephen Miller’s America: Trump’s Aide Behind Splitting Families
Ari Melber examines the role of Stephen Miller in creating Trump’s immigration policy that is now separating families at the border, showing footage of Miller in high school that demonstrates his use of “combative trolling” and breaking down the history of Miller’s attempts to block any compromises on immigration.
Jesse Dollemore addresses Donald Trump’s White House Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Stephen Miller, and his troubling past. Including his relationship with Richard Spencer
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