Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) noticed that all of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees who appeared before committees on Thursday suffered from memory problems.
She appeared on a political panel with MSNBC Friday along with Brendan Buck, a former adviser to two Speakers of the House.
Buck noted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) may have been willing to probe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before the Senate health committee, but his 2026 reelection could play a larger role than his other occupation as a physician. Cassidy already voted to impeach Donald Trump, so it adds to the list of grievances.
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Heitkamp disagreed, saying that she knows Cassidy to be a principled person.
"Bill Cassidy was a doctor who spent a lot of time with people in his state who were underprivileged," said the former North Dakota official. "He's a principled man. He's a good man. And, you know, I think that when you kind of put everything in a political lens, it's really unfair to someone like Bill."
What she found more stunning was just how much the nominees couldn't remember about themselves when pressed.
"What I'm struck by because I've watched these, is all of them really have memory problems. You know, when you go through and people say, I didn't say that, or why are you bringing that up? I mean, I think in a, in a real world where we aren't in lockstep, where there isn't a MAGA kind of destination for all of these candidates, where you're either with them or against them, these people would probably not have been even nominated, much less be in this spot," Heitkamp continued.
She predicted Americans were about "to see some Republicans kind of grow a spine and say, it's a bridge too far."
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