Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 20, 2024
Are Trump’s Appointees the Trojan Horses That Could Lead to America’s Strategic Collapse?
By choosing loyalists over experts, Trump risks unraveling the integrity of U.S. agencies while empowering adversaries like Putin…
The mainstream media is baffled: Why would Trump promote candidates to oversee critical agencies with millions of employees and multi-billion-dollar budgets who have little to no management experience and have openly expressed hostility toward the institutions they'll oversee?
I've seen legendary reporter Bob Woodward, who wrote several books about Trump, on three different TV shows this week asking to the effect of, "What could Trump possibly gain from these incompetent appointments?
If he just wanted loyalty, there's no shortage of rational, competent members of the military and intelligence community who're loyal to Trump.
So why is he selecting people like Hegseth, Gaetz, and Gabbard to run agencies that could directly involve confrontations with Russia?