Thune has privately told Trump that Hegseth has the votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, sources say
Thune has privately told Trump that Hegseth has the votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, sources say
When asked for comment, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Thune said "two things we don't discuss publicly: Whip counts and private conversations with the president."
Summary
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has told Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth likely has enough votes to be confirmed as Defense Secretary, despite controversy over past sexual misconduct allegations, a financial settlement, and concerns about his leadership and alcohol use.
Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is set for Jan. 14, with Senate Republicans aiming to expedite key national security confirmations before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Other high-profile hearings, including for Marco Rubio (State), Pam Bondi (Attorney General), and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), are tentatively scheduled for the same week amidst ongoing bipartisan negotiations.
This guy sucks, but IMHO, more energy should be spent on tanking people like Patel and RFK. They’re an even bigger threat to American citizens.
They would need someone exactly like Hegseth when they go through with their plan to purge generals that would uphold the constitution and promote trump loyalists to more positions of power in the military. I'm sure there are some on Lemmy that assumes all military members are the same and pro-trump. That isn't true. There were generals going around and talking to their counterparts to make sure the military would not come if Trump called during 1/6.
This will make it so next time they will have more backing.
Far-right Christo-Fascist White Supremacist Pete Hegseth vs Brain-Worm Conspiracy Nut RFK?
I think RFK isn’t smart enough to do enough real damage on a global scale. He just has some stupid ideas that will help insurance companies and the medical system make more money when people get sick from preventable diseases. More company profits.
Just look at how much death donvict caused during Covid. RFK could quite possibly kill far, far more. And this time, those impacted may very well be children.
He doesn't even need to ban vaccines outright to cause a lot of damage. That kind of insane idiocy coming from the very top might put just enough people off vaccination as to cause a serious clusterfuck.
Such a major indictment of the Republican Senate majority and their complete subservience to the Orange Jesus in installing the least qualified and most unfit person ever to be nominated for the top Pentagon job.
Well, he promised he would stop drinking during work hours, so it's probably fine.
I wonder how many Democrats will be joining these shit Republicans in putting this completely unqualified and sexual abuser into a leadership position?
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If the Republicans have the votes to get this alcoholic, unqualified, sexual deviant into the position then fine, let them do it on their own.
It would be absolutely stupid for any Democrat to cast a single vote for those or any other unqualified Trump appointee AMD sets the tone for being capitulating jackasses that will continue to lose their base.
Aren't all those things just prereqs?