Trump administration 2024-2028

[dimsum]

The Atlantic weighs in on Patel as FBI Director:

A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Brad Sallows]

The Atlantic weighs in on Patel as FBI Director:

That horse already left the barn.

 

[brihard]

Another nepotism appointment: Trump has named his youngest daughter Tiffany Trump’s father in law as a senior advisor for the Middle East.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-massad-boulos-will-serve-adviser-arab-middle-eastern-affairs-2024-12-01/

 

[QV]

After the last 8 years, I'd only appoint my trusted inner circle too.

I'd spend the next 4 years taking these establishments apart and re-building them.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The Atlantic weighs in on Patel as FBI Director:

A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

www.theatlantic.com

Hoover laughs from his grave and says "amateurs"

 

[OldSolduer]

Hoover laughs from his grave and says "amateurs"

And yes he does. Hoover was a…well he took his job seriously and to excess.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Patel will never match Hoover ... he has no Irish blood!

 

[QV]

The Atlantic weighs in on Patel as FBI Director:

A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

www.theatlantic.com

"Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power."

David Frum is spreading disinformation here. If you want to hear what Kash Patel plans to do as FBI Director, you can hear him state it directly on the Shawn Ryan podcast and it is the opposite of turning it into a personal instrument of presidential power.

Sometimes I wonder who these people (like Frum) are really working for... outright lies like this are seditious.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Sometimes, QV, when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... it is a duck.

We'll see which Patel we get: the one from all those past posts and statements, or the one from a single post-appointment podcast statement.

 

[QV]

It was pre-appointment podcast, but sure.

 

[daftandbarmy]

The Atlantic weighs in on Patel as FBI Director:

A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

www.theatlantic.com

And very few people in 'Flyover country' read the Atlantic, I would wager

 

[The Bread Guy]

Patel will never match Hoover ... he has no Irish blood!

Or, very likely, his fashion sense.

Meanwhile, a Chinese national "crypto entrepreneur" gives Trump & Co. $30M for the right to own tokens he can't do anything with but own ....

A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million

Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.

popular.info

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861121947372773545

... and in case the name sounds familiar, he's apparently into the arts, too.

Man Who Bought Duct-Taped Banana Artwork for $6.2M Eats It: ‘I Wanted to Become a Part of History’

Justin Sun — the crypto entrepreneur and Chinese billionaire who purchased the viral banana-taped-to-a-wall painting for more than $6 million — shared a video on social media of himself eating the art piece.

people.com