President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one of many wealthiest individuals ever to serve in Congress, to move up the Small Enterprise Administration.
“Small Businesses are the backbone of our Great Economy,” Trump wrote, boasting that Loeffler will “bring her experience in business” to “unleash opportunity” for small companies to “grow, innovate, and thrive.”
Regardless of her new gig, the obscenely rich Loeffler—founding father of a cryptocurrency firm and former proprietor of a WNBA workforce—doesn’t actually embody the concept of small enterprise.
The announcement comes after rumors circulated that Loeffler could be tapped because the secretary of agriculture. Trump’s choice at hand Loeffler a job in any case could or could not have one thing to do with the truth that the felon-elect price her a reelection bid.
She briefly represented Georgia within the Senate from 2020 to 2021 earlier than shedding in a runoff election to Sen. Raphael Warnock.
A day earlier than the runoff, Loeffler stood alongside Trump at a marketing campaign rally the place he spewed claims of voter fraud and authoritarian calls to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
So as to add insult to damage, she additionally confronted accusations of insider buying and selling after she dumped tens of millions of {dollars} in shares following a non-public briefing for senators in January 2020.
Loeffler is simply the most recent Trump administration decide with scandals of their closet.
Different controversial decisions embody Peter Navarro, who was simply launched from federal jail after a four-month sentence for refusing to conform with a congressional subpoena.
Charles Kushner—who occurs to be Ivanka Trump’s father-in-law—additionally served a while behind bars. Kushner was sentenced to 2 years in jail after pleading responsible to submitting false tax returns, mendacity to the Federal Election Fee, and retaliating in opposition to a witness. Trump pardoned him for his troubles and simply nominated him as ambassador to France.
This doubtful duo is about to hitch fellow felon Trump together with picks like Fox Information host Pete Hegseth, the protection secretary nominee who has garnered consideration for rape allegations, reported public drunkenness, and his stance in opposition to girls serving in fight roles.
Welcome to the circus, Kelly. You’ll match proper in.
