Jeff Mordock of conservative newspaper The Washington Times defended President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint an all-white cabinet Monday.
During the Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, Mordock was confronted by a Democratic caller from California.
"Why is he only selecting white people to be in his cabinet?" the caller named Jared asked. "Why do we have to have all these sexual assault people being heads of cabinets, you know?"
"And it's just wrong to have those people with those type of records running the country," he noted.
Mordock downplayed the importance of ethnic diversity in government.
"It's true, but the president's argument is that these people have diverse experience," Mordock insisted. "That he's bringing people from outside, business executives, a talk show host, governors, and he's trying to argue that the diversity is not under race or gender, but under experience, is what the president is arguing."
"But yes, they're all white," he admitted. "There's not, in terms of what we traditionally think of diversity, there's not a lot."
Mordock also addressed the sexual assault allegations against some members of Trump's potential cabinet.
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"We've got three nominees, and I don't recall any period in this town where we've ever had three nominees for level positions with very serious sexual misconduct allegations lodged against them," he said. "Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz, and RFK Jr."
"And I think some of this is, is he trying to test the loyalty and how compliant his Senate is going to be before he moves forward with other things?" the reporter added. "He's built a lot of political capital. I'm somewhat surprised he's going to try to use up a lot of that on Matt Gaetz."
Watch the video below from C-SPAN.