Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked

They identify a host of ‘red flags’ about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.

Some revelations are unsurprising.

* One report basically used her own quotes to show that Laura Ingraham was nutty as a fruitcake (People Should Wear Diapers Instead Of Sharing Bathrooms With Transgender People).

* Another report said Kris Kobach was aligned with white supremacists.

The most interesting part of the leaked docs involves their opinions of a certain Donald Trump:

Nikki Haley, who became Trump’s U.N. ambassador, had said Trump is everything “we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.”

Rick Perry, Energy Secretary, had voluminous vetting concerns: “Perry described Trumpism as a ‘toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition,'”

Mick Mulvaney, now acting chief of staff, has a striking assortment of “red flags,” including his assessment that Trump “is not a very good person.”

5 thoughts on “Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked

  1. Perry is probably better at DOE than the alternative candidates that could be there instead.

    1. True, I guess, but that says more about Trump’s choices than it does about Perry.

  2. I am shocked. I had NO idea that Rick Perry was that perceptive.

    That he was willing to accept high office from someone he rightly perceived to be fatal to the long term prospects of his party is, of course, no surprise.

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