BREAKING: Donald Trump's transition team has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Justice to allow for FBI background checks of transition officials and nominees.
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This is total fck nonsense it’s standard procedure to do full security & background checks on all transitional officials . Time was you couldn’t even get thru the front door unless you’d been vetted thoroughly by all security services. You are a joke now!! A total joke
I can't stand the unequal way laws are treated in this country. The date passed! It's literally TOO late, by law. But 🤷♀️ oh well, he is rich and uneducated. Laws don't apply to him.
But this is just the memorandum of understanding and not the actual ethics document. What does this mean? What are they able to do in the memorandum vs the ethics agreement? Can you explain
Such gaslighting. DT’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s top secret clearance was rejected by government security and was still given top-secret access by DT. Brett Kavanagh’s FBI background investigation was controlled and severely limited by the DT administration. GOP will use this to OK their votes
Trump has never hidden himself, his intent, corruption or grift. Even when FBI checks reveal concerns, GOP will not have enough balls 2 stand up 2 Trump. The corruption & depravity will be all out in the open. It's not so much an indictment on amoral Trump, but on GOP. There's no going back for them
Essentially meaningless. They are solely for him to consider and will not be made public and he can say "IDGAF about how compromised and unfit this person is" about all of them.
Does MAGA get to choose the agents doing the checking? Previous checks didn’t work out so well with Kavanaugh for example. The FBI’s New York office and Director Comey helped to to elect a criminal in 2016. Sure, he wasn’t convicted yet but he was a lying criminal nonetheless.
That's actually really good! It prevents bad backgrounds coming into our trusted governments, I'm from Canada, but I understand common law and a basic understandment of political science.
But does the memorandum say what happens to those who don't pass? My guess this is bs smoke and mirrors to present the illusion of normalcy. I'd bet money those who don't pass in transition team keep their positions regardless.
Wow, Trump’s team agreeing to FBI background checks? That’s rich, considering how many of his past officials probably wouldn’t pass one. Let’s see if this is about actual transparency or just a box to check...
Did they stall long enough to vet their people privately or did people simply lie to Trump that nothing would come up and he believe them because he's losing his marbles
Well, it's time to find someone else to run the Pentagon. The last nominee couldn't pass the background check for the PTA. Our men and women in uniform deserve our best. They put their lives on the line to keep us safe at home. They deserve qualified quality leadership.
"Mr. Hegseth was filmed riding a jelly-covered midget, wearing a foam cowboy hat and taffeta prom dress, toking from a bottle of Yukon Jack, waving around a 357 Magnum and screaming, 'I'll fuck the next rabbit that runs in here!" at the Disneyworld Marriot, but that's no reason not to confirm him."
I’ll save them the trouble, they ALL fail. Do not pass go, Do not collect $200, go straight to jail. They don’t have to go home but they got to get the F out of here!
As if that’s stopped them before, people need to remember that Jared Kushner was initially rejected (correctly) for a security clearance due to background issues, foreign contacts and multiple corrections when he completed his SF-86 form. Then he left with a $2Bn parting gift….
Just so Americans can be sure their death is being brought to them. Y'know, some of them might have thought otherwise but the world needs to be clear about what's going to happen.
Yes, but he risk losing leverage over them as he will no longer be the only one knowing of the weak spots he can use to pressure them. He might end up having to only nominate people with autonomy and integrity.
Why the F is this breaking news.
I don’t get a headline every time I do t murder someone
That’s not breaking news this is F’ing called ethics either you have it or you pretend you die which is Drumpf.
Rewarding the creepy rapey felon for doing what is right and is automatic for most US citizens.
They signed it...it doesn't mean they will actually submit to them. I mean, several of them would never pass a background check *cough*Russian assets Tulsi Gabbert and Kash Patel*cough*...
These Congress and Senate leaders have two heads, their loyalty is beyond the oath they took to the Constitution and the People who elected them. They need a reality check.
I read this and I laugh and ask... Who cares? A traitor, grapist, criminal, incompetent, pathological liar who is the fungus who feeds on pond scum was elected to the highest position in the United States. We are the laughingstock of the world
Why do I get the feeling that Donald Trump won't just make a bunch of temporary appointments of his cronies like last time to circumvent the senate hearings process? Christ sake I can’t even get an apartment without a background check or even get a job for that matter!!!
The most likely reason is that many Republican senators said they wouldn't confirm without background checks.
Whether they actually care what the checks will unearth is unclear. But it gives them the cover they need to vote yes on his garbage nominees and then feign ignorance or distrust in fbi.
Well, if background checks exist, Senators are going to want to see them (they've already said that).
Thinking 2 moves ahead.... OK they do the background checks, but the Senate goes on recess and allows for recess appointments and background checks become irrelevant.
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Fuck each and every one
Just say that then.
Win Win for the people
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/03/trump-background-checks-patel-hegseth.html
This is a positive step forward
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3lcgmrlgtbc2a
The FBI is worthless.
No siree Bob!
It’s called the Mueller report and available here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf
And this follow-up: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/special-counsel-robert-s-mueller-iii-makes-statement-investigation-russian-interference
Patel
Hegseth
RFK Jr.
It's better than nothing
Just read Pam Bondi’s Wikipedia page.
Side note: my phone corrected Pam to Spam and maybe that’s an omen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi
I don’t get a headline every time I do t murder someone
That’s not breaking news this is F’ing called ethics either you have it or you pretend you die which is Drumpf.
Rewarding the creepy rapey felon for doing what is right and is automatic for most US citizens.
https://share.newsbreak.com/a6ypeoxz
And does man-baby have to sign too, or can he just say they didn't have authority to sign?
Clearly lardass' fuckups are creating headaches.
Only takes one Republican to side with the Democrats to kill a nomination.
Whether they actually care what the checks will unearth is unclear. But it gives them the cover they need to vote yes on his garbage nominees and then feign ignorance or distrust in fbi.
Now let's see what they do when they get the thumbs down on their besties,
Coincidence?
Thinking 2 moves ahead.... OK they do the background checks, but the Senate goes on recess and allows for recess appointments and background checks become irrelevant.