Trump skips FBI background checks for controversial cabinet picks – report

How much corruption can we take before he's even installed? For real. This is way fucken nuttier than last time. It seems so malicious.

This breaks decades-old norms meant to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.

Come the fuck on. The FBI background checks are a "norm" too? Do we have actual laws for anything?

A crook and convicted felon fills his cabinet with folk who probably can't pass an FBI security screening? Color me shocked.

The robber barons are back, baby

Gabbard is the biggest threat here, in my view.

You couldn't dream of putting a spy in a better position than the DNI whose position is literally to oversee all intelligence agency silos.

Russia will know literally everything.

So... About that "deep state" I kept hearing about for the past 30 years... Think maybe now it's probably the time, if there ever was one, to do something to preserve the world order.

Turns out the "deep state" are a bunch of rich people who don't want to pay taxes. Oops.

This all highlights how many loopholes and deficiencies there are in a system that prides itself so much on checks and balances.

No shit, one of his picks has white supremacist tats all over his body, one paid a minor for sex and gave them hardcore drugs, and the other is an actual Russian Agent.

I've needed FBI background checks for nearly every job I've ever had. If I need a background check to work in an elementary school, why don't these people need it to handle our nation's secrets?

Bypassed standard FBI background checks ... to vet candidates for criminal history and conflicts of interest.

Those are features, not bugs now. They know exactly who they picked.

It's crazy that all these things I thought were laws my whole life turn out to just be "norms" that can be totally ignored

to his supporters, this just looks like someone who gets things done. and they probably don't trust the FBI

he'd just overrule anyway like he did jared and a couple dozen others before.

So, Cheeto is relying on private investigators...run by the Russian FSB. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the Deep State is going to filled with neo-Nazis, religious nutters and Russian agents.

Moves to cut out the FBI appear to be in line with a pre-election memo drafted by his legal advisers and fits with Trump’s enduring suspicion that the agency is part of what, without evidence, he believes to be a “deep state” machine within the federal government bent on undermining him.

Trump administration does something obviously illegal and unethical

FBI: "Hey, that's illegal, you can't do that."

Trump: "Look at this deep state organization trying to prevent me from doing my job"

My only confidence and hope is that these guys are such monumental fuckups that they won’t be able to string together enough executive function to realize their dark vision.

I assume if they’re investigating or vetting anything it’s: will they be loyal to Trump? Anything good to hang on to as blackmail or extortion material?

Potential security risks?

Jfc these idiots.

Things are going to be FAR worse than anyone has imagined thus far.

I just know it.

Tulsi Gabbard as the head of intelligence means the US intelligence community will have a blind spot in Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East. Plus many field agents are going to die. It’s going to be massive set back for Ukraine. And she’s probably going to relay everything to dictators like Putin and Assad. Mahalo Tulsi /s. And fuck your sPiRIt of alOHa

The Banana Republicans up to a good start.

Another “norm” that we thought was a requirement. The shittiest Civics class.

Well duh. That's what's a convicted felon would want to do if they got into power.

Cadet Bone Spurs relied on (PAID!!!) a private doctor to give him bone spurs and completely avoided the military doctors who would have found his worthless fit for duty. How in the fuck can one avoid an FBI background check for any government position and contract work?

It turns out that the erosion of rights will be done for fun during the real task of butchering the federal infrastructure and agenci6snd selling them to the highest bidding friend

#TeamAsteroid ...

Trump should just come clean and admit that he plans to betray Ukraine.

When you can’t drain the swamp, stuff the swamp with more swamp until unlimited swamp.

Maybe because the whole fucking thing is a rat king of tangled conflicts of interest. If I were them I wouldn't want anyone with half a spine to so much as look at me.

This is how we know he takes our National Security VERY Seriously! Law and Order!

do we really even need to do a background check on gaetz to know that he’s a bad idea? i’m pretty sure they’d find even more skeletons if they background checked him, but there should already be more than enough information to know he’s a bad candidate.

Crashing the country with no survivors.

Excellent, this surely won't have any far reaching consequences.

The Senate will allow this or not.

We still control the executive, make them vote on it.