Anonymous
8/4/2025, 5:12:18 AM
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>The funniest part about Hegseth is that he isn't even a foreign asset; he's just so fecklessly incompetent that he might as well be.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-cabinet-fbi-background-checks
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Trump skips FBI background checks for controversial cabinet picks – report
This article is more than 8 months old
Bypassing the standard procedure comes as president-elect’s choices of RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz send shock waves
Robert Tait in Washington
Fri 15 Nov 2024 18.24 CET
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Donald Trump’s transition team has bypassed standard background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on some of his controversial cabinet nominees, it has been reported, minimising the chances of them being rejected for Senate confirmation based on any past transgressions or conflicts of interest.
Such background checks – a longstanding tradition for incoming presidential nominations dating back decades to the early cold war – have instead been outsourced to private investigators.
The revelation, first reported by CNN, came as shock waves reverberate in Washington from at least three of Trump’s proposed appointees, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr for attorney general, director of national intelligence and health secretary respectively.
Moves to cut out the FBI appear to be in line with a pre-election memo drafted by his legal advisers and fits with Trump’s enduring suspicion that the agency is part of what, without evidence, he believes to be a “deep state” machine within the federal government bent on undermining him.
>The funniest part about Hegseth is that he isn't even a foreign asset; he's just so fecklessly incompetent that he might as well be.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-cabinet-fbi-background-checks
This article is more than 8 months old
Trump skips FBI background checks for controversial cabinet picks – report
This article is more than 8 months old
Bypassing the standard procedure comes as president-elect’s choices of RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz send shock waves
Robert Tait in Washington
Fri 15 Nov 2024 18.24 CET
Share
Donald Trump’s transition team has bypassed standard background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on some of his controversial cabinet nominees, it has been reported, minimising the chances of them being rejected for Senate confirmation based on any past transgressions or conflicts of interest.
Such background checks – a longstanding tradition for incoming presidential nominations dating back decades to the early cold war – have instead been outsourced to private investigators.
The revelation, first reported by CNN, came as shock waves reverberate in Washington from at least three of Trump’s proposed appointees, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr for attorney general, director of national intelligence and health secretary respectively.
Moves to cut out the FBI appear to be in line with a pre-election memo drafted by his legal advisers and fits with Trump’s enduring suspicion that the agency is part of what, without evidence, he believes to be a “deep state” machine within the federal government bent on undermining him.