Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) expressed his honest bafflement Tuesday about President-elect Donald Trump’s Cupboard picks, which have prompted widespread concern for a number of causes together with that not less than 4 of them have been accused of sexual misconduct.
Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who was investigated for allegedly having intercourse with a 17-year-old, to be his legal professional basic. He additionally nominated former Fox Information host and veteran Pete Hegseth, who was investigated for sexual assault in 2017.
McGovern, on the Home flooring, mentioned these nominations are “beyond insane.”
“Someone who is credibly accused of having sex with an underage girl,” the congressman famous Tuesday. “Someone who sucks up to foreign dictators and has attracted major concern that they can’t be trusted to protect America’s secrets from our adversaries.”
Trump nominated former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) to be his director of nationwide intelligence, regardless of concern over her 2017 assembly with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“Someone who paid hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation, you know, to lead our military. He’s picked because Donald Trump likes him on Fox News?” McGovern mentioned, referring to Hegseth.
“Someone who says that tap water turns kids gay?” he continued. “I mean, this is the dream team? This is the dream team? Really?”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump tapped to be secretary of well being and human companies, reportedly argued on his podcast in 2022 that man-made chemical compounds in meals and water are performing as “endocrine disruptors” that may very well be making youngsters gay or transgender, pointing to their documented impact of turning some male frogs feminine. Such results haven’t been present in people. Dr. Andrea Gore, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology on the College of Texas at Austin, informed CNN final 12 months that issues within the setting can have an effect on frogs’ intercourse however intercourse for people is ready at conception.
McGovern argued that this “would be funny if it weren’t so sad” and concluded by hoping that the U.S. Senate “has a backbone and insists on a thorough confirmation process,” which former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) lately wagered would occur.
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Gabbard left the Democratic Get together after operating for president in 2020 and have become a Fox Information contributor earlier than endorsing Trump in his 2024 presidential bid. She notably sued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for suggesting she was “a Russian asset.”
Hegseth allegedly sexually assaulted somebody throughout a Republican ladies’s convention in California and prompted contusions to her proper thigh, in line with a report from the Metropolis of Monterey. The lady filed a police report 4 days later, however no prices have been ever filed.
Gaetz was the topic of a yearslong investigation by the Justice Division over alleged intercourse trafficking and intercourse with a minor. A Home Ethics Committee probe trying into allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, improper items and extra ended when he resigned from Congress instantly after his legal professional basic nomination.
“Having written three books on Trump, spent hours with him, the goal is to give him all the say, all the power,” journalist Bob Woodward informed MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Monday, including: “It makes no sense and it’s a form of giving his middle finger to the American people.”
