Trump DNI ‘Operation First’ Defense ‘Military Weakness’ Justice ‘Abolition of FBI’ Senate Nullification
In the appointment of federal cabinet members under the Trump administration, the revival of the 'Prioritizing Operations Over Information' Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Ministry of Defense 'Expulsing Generals' 'Destructing Diversity' ‘Reduction of US Military Overseas Deployments’ of the Defense Department, and the ‘Small Government Camouflage’ by the Attorney General through the ‘Abolition of the FBI’ were evaluated as a hard-line conservative system that ‘pokes the Senate’s eye’ where the personnel hearing is held in the hard-line conservative strategic system.
John Bolton, who was the National Security Advisor during the first Trump administration, appeared on NBC on the 13th and said that the selection of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was nominated as Attorney General, was “the worst Cabinet nomination in American history.”
Just hours before Trump announced his selection as Attorney General, Rep. Matt Gaetz issued a statement to X saying, “We must apply all-out pressure against this weaponized government that has turned its back on our people. And if that means abolishing all three letter agencies, from the FBI to the ATF, I’m ready to go!” The New York Times White House correspondent wrote of the Cabinet appointments, saying, “An alliance with Fox News for the secretary of defense. A former Democrat turned Trump, a world-famous figure who oversees 18 intelligence agencies and a right-wing firebrand for the nation’s top law enforcement profession.” “This parade of loyalists is the first show of force by President Trump to Senate Republicans, who will be under enormous pressure to confirm his nominees or avoid the process altogether,” he said on the 13th.
“These things are so horrific that they’re a form of performance art,” Michael Waldman, director of the Brennan Center for Justice, said in an interview, reflecting on Trump’s picks and their suitability for the job. “They’ve essentially created their first constitutional crisis within eight days of winning the election. He’s going to pick conservatives, Republicans. You know, that’s what you get from elections. But these picks are a taunt to the Senate. It appears to have been designed."
Reuters reported on the 13th that "Trump's choice of Representative Matt Gates (42), the top U.S. law enforcement official, as attorney general is a surprising choice," adding that "the former lawyer has never worked at the Justice Department or as a prosecutor, and was actually investigated by the Justice Department on prostitution charges. His office said he was told by prosecutors in 2023 that he would not face criminal charges." "Trump said he wanted to end the 'weaponization' of the Justice Department, and said the Justice Department filed a politically motivated criminal lawsuit to hurt his presidential bid," it said.
Trump's national security and foreign policy nominees have been largely skeptical about helping Ukraine to prevent Russian aggression, and some of their past statements have been openly hostile to the Zelensky government. Regarding Gabbard’s nomination to be the director of national intelligence, who will oversee America’s vast domestic and international intelligence agencies, Reuters reported that “she has portrayed Putin as a defender of her country’s vital national security interests and has called Ukraine a corrupt kleptocracy.”
Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaiian who left the Democratic Party in 2022 and has been a vocal critic of Biden’s foreign policy, is a former Trump supporter who opposed Obama’s military intervention in the Syrian civil war, secretly visited Syria to meet with the dictator, and claimed that “President Putin had a legitimate basis for invading Ukraine, an American ally.”
“I know Tulsi will bring to our intelligence community the fearless spirit that has defined her brilliant career,” Trump said in his nomination statement, adding that he would “defend our constitutional rights and secure peace through strength.” Attorney General nominee Gaetz introduced legislation to limit sentencing for those involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a member of the House of Representatives, and has become notorious for his conflicts with other House members.
Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, gave a negative assessment to reporters on the 13th, saying, “At least the House would be a more peaceful place without Rep. Gates.”
The New York Times reported that “confirmation hearing members will consider Gaetz’s track record as the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation that was recently concluded in 2023,” and that “if confirmed, he would lead the Justice Department that conducted the sex trafficking investigation against him.”
The nominee for attorney general was the subject of a House ethics committee investigation into allegations of drug use, personal campaign spending, and inappropriate sharing of materials on the House floor, but the investigation was effectively concluded on the 13th, shortly after he was nominated as attorney general. Regarding the Senate confirmation hearing, the New York Times reported on the 13th that “they will also examine the qualifications of Gabbard, one of Trump’s most ardent supporters and the nominee for director of the National Government Bureau,” and that “the 42-year-old has long been popular with Russian state media. The Democratic senators will question her about her decision to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her past acceptance of Russian communications.”
In February 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gabbard posted a video on social media repeating the Kremlin’s false claims that the United States was funding a biological weapons laboratory in Ukraine.
Responding to the post, Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, criticized Gabbard at the time, saying she was “parroting Russian propaganda.”
A Trump spokesperson said of Gabbard’s nomination, “She was tapped to help prepare for the 2019 Democratic primary because of her attacks on Vice President Harris.” In a July 2019 debate, Gabbard accused Harris of hypocrisy for helping enforce marijuana laws. And in a November debate, Gabbard criticized Democrats for being obsessed with “Washington’s foreign policy establishment,” and she repeatedly accused them of being overly influenced by the “military-industrial complex.”
Trump’s longtime biographer Timothy L. O’Brien told the Times that Trump’s Cabinet selections “value loyalty over competence, atmosphere over expertise, and swagger over maturity,” and that “he values it at the expense of almost everything else except his own survival.”
“The central theme of Trump’s recent appointments is that no one will interfere with the president’s exercise of power, which he disdains by personnel guardrails,” the Times said.
Reuters reported on the 13th that the Trump camp's "military kill list" was mainly targeted at progressive "woke generals" and those responsible for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, and that the transition team's "kill list plan" was released the day after Secretary Hegseth was nominated.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the 13th that, citing a source from the Trump transition team, "We plan to carry out a major reform centered on the size of the Department of Defense, especially the Joint Chiefs of Staff," and that "three- and four-star generals who have shown poor performance in the military should retire."
The Trump camp previously announced a new defense policy that would scrap the "strengthening combat power through military diversity" strengthened under the Obama Democratic regime and "excluding female combat soldiers" and "expulsing sexual minorities."
The Republican Party, which supports the “small government” tax cut policy, is faced with a direct clash between its different security axes of “overseas covert operations first” and “small government” ideology, with the confirmation of Fox News host Heggesses as Secretary of Defense, who praises President Trump as “tough, smart, and a true believer in putting America first” but lacks the experience needed to command and command 1.3 million active-duty U.S. troops, and the nomination of former Democratic Rep. Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, who has been “deeply skeptical of and negative about the effectiveness of U.S. military interventions abroad.”
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