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Some of them are going to be controversial. They’re controversial because they’ll actually get things done,
Trump Jr. said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo
I do think it was fitting that they held the meeting in front of a roaring metaphor for the future.”
TV comedian Stephen Colbert observed
Their entire political brand is shock and awe. Prior to Trump’s re-election it was notional. Now they have the power to execute all of their depravity with the full backing of American government power virtually unchecked. I don’t think the people who voted for Donald Trump, allegedly because of economic angst, have a full appreciation for what that means.”
Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill, saidWe can also expect a pretty sharp attack on the independence of the judiciary. This is going to be a rupture in the generations-old practice of political independence in terms of the Department of Justice. That’s coming to an end.”
Jacobs addedSo far the candidates range from the unserious to the terrifying. Tulsi Gabbard is going to send a shock wave through the intelligence community and not in a good way. I can tell you that her Putin sympathies being rather evident to everyone around her is going to become a major issue. I’m not sure Tulsi Gabbard can be confirmed.”
Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, saidI expect chaos and a series of constitutionally questionable actions exponentially worse than what we saw on day one last time. It’s already started. There will be many of us who said, we warned you.”
Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive of the Seneca Project, a women-led super political action committee, said
The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired.”
In his recent book, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, Hegseth wroteWe know that on day one he is going to launch the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in American history.”
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told Fox NewsThe Trump administration is going to plunge America into a cross between The Hunger Games and The Celebrity Apprentice, unfortunately at great expense to the future of our democracy and the humanity of millions of Americans who will suffer at the hands of this gallery of degenerates. The American electorate fucked around and now they’re going to find out.”
She addedI want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill.”
He has said of his day one plansA transition that’s so smooth it’ll be as smooth as it can get,
Trump saidEinstein once said, thinking there’ll be a different outcome by doing the same thing over and over again is a sign of insanity,
he said
I think he realized eight years ago when he came in, he really didn't know how to do that, but now, after four years of being a president, he understands he has the people that can do it, and he's going to do his best to get them through,
said Santorum
Mitch was a little prickly at times with President Trump, but you won't see that from John Thune,
Santorum saidI would argue that the Justice Department does too,
Santorum addedI'm fairly impressed with the group he's picked, ... I think he's picked people who are disrupters in positions that need disruption."
Santorum told Newsmax's "Sunday Report."There is a big problem in this country with all of this bitcoin mining, the electric vehicles,
he saidThe Energy Department is the place where [Joe] Biden put all of his Green New Deal stuff,
he said