âConsider the people brought to the floor and confirmed: Judges rated "not qualifiedâ by the American Bar Association; an oil executive, Rex Tillerson, with no government experience as secretary of state; a lawyer, Alex Acosta, whose supervision of DOJâs civil rights division was roundly criticized and who participated in the atrociously lenient plea deal for serial child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; Ben Carson, a man utterly lacking in government experience of housing expertise, as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; former congressman Tom Price for HHS despite his record of trading âshares worth more than $300,000 in about 40 health-related companiesâ while sitting on the House Ways and Means Committee and âworking on measures that could affect his investmentsâ (according to USA Today) ; Steven Mnuchin, who had no government experience and had failed to disclose $100 million in assets, as treasury secretary; Wilbur Ross, who also lacked government experience and had been (according to CNN) âforced to pay fines to the government several times, including as recently as August of 2016 to the SEC for failing to disclose fees his firm was charging. In 2013 ⌠(and had) sat on the board of a company that agreed to pay over $2 billion in a settlement over its handling of subprime loansâ; Scott Pruitt, who repeatedly had sued the EPA and collaborated secretly with private industry to defeat federal regulations; and a hodgepodge of unqualified cronies for ambassadorships (a sin other administrations have been guilty of as well).
Now, when Trump nominates Heather Nauert for ambassador to the United Nations - a woman who was until a year ago a Fox News personality and as a spokesperson had zero experience in diplomacy - we can expect that once more the Republican-controlled Senate will issue its stamp of approval.â
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