The reason we do FBI background checks for security clearances is because those individuals are given information that could harm our nation if it falls into the wrong hands.
Background checks are not a partisan tool — they are a critical part of our national security.
The fact that the Trump transition team is avoiding FBI background checks, so they can install people that they KNOW wouldn’t pass them, is abhorrent and insanely dangerous.
To the @SenateGOP:
I know you want to own the libs more than anything, but is risking national security really worth it?
It may feel good in the moment, but you’ll own those picks—and all the consequences they bring—for years to come.
Be smart.
Require the background checks.
Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence are not positions you hand out as political favors.
They are jobs for only the most qualified of candidates — being able to pass the FBI background check being the most baseline of those qualifications.
@SmythRadio@stengel "Precincts" are where votes are cast. Not where they are counted. "Poll workers" work at polls where votes are cast, not at ballot centers where ballots are counted
So it begins….remember when Trump promised "no tax on overtime" and all the morons cheered….well yeah there will be no tax on overtime because there will be no overtime to tax….morons should’ve read Project 2025 like we told them to https://t.co/U0S3x89grJ
"This afternoon, two of our students were reportedly horseplaying in a school bathroom when one student’s jacket got caught on a stall door hook. The student was not able to free themselves and the other student involved was also not able to help them."
Bullshit
BREAKING- Senate leader John Thune said today that there are not enough votes to pass a recess, which would have allowed Trump's appointments to take their post without a hearing.
So Gaetz, and the others will have to go in front of committees and be grilled.
Your thoughts?
Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own GOP senate majority and the constitution's advice & consent provision so they can make a man investigated for *sex trafficking a minor* into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
When your candidate lost in 2020 and thousands of people were dancing in the streets in celebration across the nation and all across the world, with bells ringing from the Eiffel Tower...
and then your candidate wins in 2024 and there isn't one public celebration anywhere, not one –that's a good indication you're on the wrong side of history. And definitely not "the majority" of anything.
Trump’s health is cratering. He has been out of sight for days. His speech has dramatically weakened and slowed recently due to his frontotemporal dementia deterioration. Maga media is playing old videos of him making threats. He needed Musk next to him like a prop on the call w/ Zelensky. The clock is ticking to a JD Vance takeover.
Pretty obvious that I sacrificed my youth and my friends sacrificed their lives for a lot of Americans who are truly and unequivocally unworthy of those sacrifices.