The unqualified crop of losers Donald Trump has up to now picked to work in his administration seemingly consider the lie that the 2020 election was stolen and that the riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was not an riot.
That is in accordance with The New York Instances, which reported on Monday that Trump administration appointees have been given a loyalty check during which they must say, “what they thought about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen.”
The New York Instances reported that individuals who stated President Joe Biden legitimately received in 2020 or disavowed the violence on Jan. 6 weren’t chosen for jobs.
“The sense they got was that there was only one right answer to each question,” the Instances reported.
A have a look at the folks Trump has already picked for each Senate confirmable positions and different political roles bears this out.
For instance, Trump nominated Kash Patel, a right-wing lunatic who has vowed to hunt revenge on reporters who accurately debunked Trump’s election lies, to steer the FBI—a place that’s not even open as the present director’s time period doesn’t expire till 2027.
Trump additionally introduced that Peter Navarro will likely be returning to his administration to assist implement harmful tariffs. Navarro went to federal jail for refusing to conform with a subpoena from the now-defunct Home Choose Committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s beleaguered decide to steer the Division of Protection, stated the individuals who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, have been there as a result of they “love freedom.”
And Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to go the Workplace of Administration and Price range, needs to assist Trump perform plans to nix protections for profession civil servants. This could permit Trump to fireside federal workers who the administration doesn’t consider are loyal sufficient to Trump.
The information is appalling, and a terrifying instance of the approaching descent into fascism the US is about to expertise when Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20. But it surely’s not stunning, as Trump and his allies explicitly stated they’d require blind loyalty to Trump.
Way back to November 2023, Axios reported that Trump and his allies have been “pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and broaden his energy at each stage of the U.S. authorities if he wins in 2024.”
Trump’s personal Agenda 47 additionally pledged that on his first day in workplace Trump would, “re-issue 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats.”
The Washington Put up reported on Sunday that profession federal workers are scrubbing their social media of any anti-Trump posts to attempt to defend themselves from being fired.
“There is shock and there is actual fear, and there is self censure in the sense that people are scared about retaliation,” Jesus Soriano, president of the American Federation of Authorities Workers Native 3403, advised The Washington Put up.
We live in actually darkish instances.
