AlterNet - 'Putin couldn’t ask for more': Why 'America’s enemies' are celebrating Trump’s incoming administration



Attorney George Conway, a Never Trump conservative who supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 election, has been a scathing critic of the far-right MAGA Republicans who President-elect Donald Trump has been picking for his incoming second administration. And he predicted, during a late November interview with The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell, that most GOP senators will be too "spineless" to reject Trump's most "appalling" nominees.

Journalist A.B. Stoddard isn't optimistic either.

In an article published by The Bulwark on December 10, Stoddard warns that Republican senators will be under tremendous pressure to confirm Trump's worst nominees — and "America's enemies" will be applauding their confirmations.

"Affairs. Addiction. Secrets. Conspiracies. Compulsions," Stoddard laments. "From Trump's point of view, a cabinet composed of people with such baggage is a cabinet that will remain loyal to him. But from the point of view of America's enemies, this is like Christmas morning. Nominees with personal troubles and scandals are nominees who can be compromised."

Stoddard continues, "America's enemies knew that another Trump term would feature additional foreign financial conflicts for the Trump family, more nepotism, and an explosion of grifting as the president-elect and many of his allies hawk merch from perfume to pills…. No matter how MAGA markets them, these nominees are not 'outsiders' who are going to disrupt the status quo — they are people who are ill-suited to their posts and whose priorities threaten our security, our values, and what is left of our national unity."

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