It can by no means make sense, however folks believed Donald Trump when he lied—about Vice President Kamala Harris, about President Joe Biden, concerning the financial system, about immigrants, about trans folks, about his accomplishments.
But, when he advised the reality about what he would do if elected, folks didn’t imagine him.
But it surely’s not simply common voters who’re shocked, thoughts you. So are the high-paid lobbyists who supposedly do that for a dwelling.
Business lobbyists declare to be “stunned” on the decide of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to go up the Division of Well being and Human Providers, in line with Politico.
“One health industry leader, granted anonymity to speak candidly about the appointment, acknowledged they were caught off guard—they had thought Trump would pick former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal or former Surgeon General Jerome Adams—and hadn’t had any strategic conversations about opposing Kennedy,” reported the publication.
Thoughts you, so far as I’ve discovered, Trump by no means publicly floated Jindal or Adams for the position earlier than or after the election. What he did do was overtly promise to let Kennedy “go wild” on well being care. And Kennedy’s allies fortunately mentioned the concept Trump would nominate Kennedy for this very place.
Passages like this from the story are laughable: “A number of industry leaders and lobbyists have expressed concern privately to Trump transition officials and lawmakers about a [Make America Healthy Again] agenda, arguing that it runs counter to Trump’s deregulatory instincts.”
What “deregulatory instincts”? Trump stands for nothing apart from what’s good for Trump. If he doesn’t care about one thing (like well being care or meals security), he’ll fortunately hand off the duty. And on this case, he’s handing it to Kennedy. In spite of everything, Trump is in any other case occupied. Fox Information isn’t going to look at itself.
Positive, Trump has racist and misogynistic instincts. However these don’t have anything to do with HHS.
In the meantime, company America is scrambling for lobbyists to carve out loopholes to Trump’s tariffs.
“The threat of tariffs has alarmed retailers and a wide range of other U.S. businesses,” David French, the senior vp of presidency relations on the Nationwide Retail Federation, advised CNBC. “Our members have been working on contingency plans since President Trump secured the nomination.”
Apparently, these contingency plans contain flooding Republican-connected lobbying corporations with calls determined for his or her exemptions.
For those who suppose it’s a recipe for corruption and affect peddling, effectively in fact it’s. What they shouldn’t be is shocked.
