The Trump Cabinet and key post thread

[superchuck500]

Surely to be a clown show. We know that RFK certainly thinks he’s getting nominated for HHS, which includes FDA.

 

[Optimus Prime]

This could have gone in the deportation thread also
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With Donald Trump headed back to the White House, the Republican is likely to turn to a familiar, highly controversial face to oversee his signature issue of immigration.

Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2018, is considered one of the key architects of the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.

Under the initiative, immigration officials broke with the longstanding practice of keeping migrant families together and out of detention, instead sending parents to immigration court for removal proceedings and children to the care of a separate agency.

Immigration offenses are considered civil violations, not criminal ones, and many of the families first presented as asylum-seekers, but they were soon on the fast track out of the country.

The practice separated at least 5,000 families, many permanently, as parents were sent abroad and the Trump administration initially declined to keep track of where they ended up. As of this May, an estimated 1,400 families remainedapart.…….

Trump plans to rehire Tom Homan, father of family separation policy

Homan presided over unprecedented ‘zero tolerance’ family separation program that severed thousands of migrant families, in some cases permanently

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bird]

I might be wrong,But I believe Trump will cast RFK Jr. aside. He's no use to him anymore. I also believe
some republicans will cross the aisle to help prevent him from getting any high ranking position.

You may be right but I am paranoid.

 

[MT15]

There’s a process but ultimately the federal district court in DC (not favorable to an ultra vires Trump administration) and the DC Circuit (not favorable to an ultra vires Trump administration) are the reviewing courts - and then the SCOTUS that i think favors Trump but only to the degree the law will allow. They will give him the gray area or ambiguity, but they’re not going to give him authority to contravene clear law. And that’s only on the cases they choose to accept.

So you’ve given me the answer on who decides if the law has been broken. Once the decision has been made, who enforces it? We have to imagine it’s possible that Trump looks at an unfavorable decision from a court and says - who’s going to stop me? Not to mention, it could take a long time to go through opinions and appeals and meantime Trump has acted.

I don’t know if he will behave quite this lawlessly, but we shouldn’t assume he will obey any laws at this point. He’s shown contempt for the courts and the law and the Constitution.

 

[fooferdoggie]

So you’ve given me the answer on who decides if the law has been broken. Once the decision has been made, who enforces it? We have to imagine it’s possible that Trump looks at an unfavorable decision from a court and says - who’s going to stop me? Not to mention, it could take a long time to go through opinions and appeals and meantime Trump has acted.

I don’t know if he will behave quite this lawlessly, but we shouldn’t assume he will obey any laws at this point. He’s shown contempt for the courts and the law and the Constitution.

why did he not obey court orders when the president before it's going to be worse now.

 

[Optimus Prime]

President-elect Donald Trump announced that two members of his first Cabinet would not be given a role this time around.

Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador, and Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, will not be offered positions in Trump’s administration as his transition to the White House is underway, he declared in a Saturday evening Truth Social post.……

Trump reveals two former members of his administration will not be returning

The president-elect’s administration ‘is currently in formation,’ he wrote

www.independent.co.uk

 

[SFIDC3]

President-elect Donald Trump announced that two members of his first Cabinet would not be given a role this time around.

Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador, and Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, will not be offered positions in Trump’s administration as his transition to the White House is underway, he declared in a Saturday evening Truth Social post.……

Trump reveals two former members of his administration will not be returning

The president-elect’s administration ‘is currently in formation,’ he wrote

www.independent.co.uk

Well, in a week of full and utter despair? IT's nice to know that karma still exists....Haley can go kick rocks, just another party over country sycophant....

 

[MT15]

Don’t know where else to put this - but I can see how tariffs could destroy American companies.

 

[superchuck500]

I think Trump might actually ghost RFK and it will be hilarious

 

[superchuck500]

Trump talking recess appointments

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Trump talking recess appointments

Eagerness to circumvent and exploit loopholes in the US Constitution...

 

[superchuck500]

Eagerness to circumvent and exploit loopholes in the US Constitution...

They only last to the next session anyway - and they have to occur during and actual recess

 

[MT15]

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

A relatively harmless position for her, that's one bullet dodged and 9,999 to go!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Vivek Ramaswamy teases role in Trump’s second administration: ‘Couple great options’

Ramaswamy confirmed he was having ‘high-impact discussions’ about his political future

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MT15]

Architect of major portions of Project 2025, who has also promised to deport US citizens if they have undocumented family members.

 

[bird]

Architect of major portions of Project 2025, who has also promised to deport US citizens if they have undocumented family members.

Homan, another old white man who needs to just go the flock away.

 

[bird]

Other than anti-vaccination RFK is a liberal. Trump will wash his hands of him Imho.

Have to disagree. RFK may be a liberal on some things but he is bat schlitz crazy on vaccines. All he has to do is keep his mouth shut on other stuff and he will have his wet dream playground. Trump rewards those who perform oral ministrations on him. That is his sole basis for choosing people.

 

[faceman]

Senate majority leader is still up in the air. 2 of the 3 candidates are not fans of Trump. We'll know Wednesday.

Tucker Carlson angrily accuses Senate Republicans of plotting ‘coup’ against Trump

‘Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on,’ the former Fox anchor claims

www.independent.co.uk