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'Way too much out there': CNN panel predicts next Trump Cabinet pick to crash and burn

Now that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is out of the running to be the next attorney general of the United States, more attention is being paid to other controversial Trump nominees.

A panel on CNN on Monday predicted that the next most difficult Trump nominee to confirm after Gaetz would be former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI), who has been nominated to be director of national intelligence.

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'Are you trying to kill us?' MAGA voters complain about Trump's 'depressing' nominees

Some of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters aren't forgetting how upset they are about two key nominees for his upcoming presidential administration.

Trump said on Friday that he had chosen Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a physician and Fox News medical contributor, as his surgeon general. Raw Story reported the following day that some of the former and incoming president's biggest fans were not happy about it.

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'Dehumanization': Critics blast reported Trump plan to boot minority group from military

Donald Trump critics lashed out on Sunday after a report that the former and incoming president is already setting the stage to boot all transgender people from the military on day one.

The Times, founded in 1785 in the United Kingdom, reported over the weekend that the president-elect is readying an executive order "to kick transgender troops out of U.S. military." The purported plan mirrors a policy Trump had during his first administration, when he announced in a tweet that trans people would no longer have the right to serve their country in the military.

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'Arrested for drunk driving': Matt Gaetz's 'party animal' past exposed by reporter

Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been in the news recently for withdrawing his name from consideration as Donald Trump's Attorney General amid discussions about uncharged allegations of child sex trafficking, but there are other skeletons in the ex-lawmaker's closet, according to a reporter.

Jeffrey Schweers, an award-winning journalist and the Orlando Sentinel’s Tallahassee bureau reporter, dropped a report on Sunday that discussed Gaetz's purported past as a "party animal."

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'It didn't work': Open letter to Melania Trump calls for her to ditch signature initiative

Donald Trump's wife should retire her signature initiative from her first time as first lady if and when she returns to the White House, a columnist wrote Sunday.

Melania Trump popularized a much-ridiculed "Be Best" plan, which was focused on reducing bullying, when she was the first lady. But many observers suggested it fell flat because of Trump's own tendency toward bullying his perceived enemies.

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'Scream out the truth': Lawmaker calls out Trump team's 'violation of federal law'

Donald Trump's transition team was caught in a "violation of federal law," a Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was asked about the president-elect's government takeover.

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'Most corrupt president': Outrage mounts over Trump's latest move in government takeover

Donald Trump's transition has failed to sign ethics agreements, which in turn has reportedly allowed the team to run on "secret money," and the president-elect's critics are outraged.

Trump has been quick to announce his Cabinet nominations over the last two weeks, but he has been slow to reveal the "names of the donors who are funding his transition effort," according to a Sunday New York Times report. This is part of Trump's failure to adhere to ethics norms, which has also reportedly led to his team being left in the dark on key issues.

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'In the dark': Trump team reportedly getting 'blocked' after transition's ethics 'failure'

Donald Trump's transition team has failed to sign important government ethics agreements, leading to his nominees being "blocked" from the agencies they will soon be controlling, according to a report.

Trump hasn't been sworn into office yet but, as one U.S. senator recently said, he's already delaying his legal responsibilities when it comes to signing an ethics agreement that has to be on file before a presidential transition takes place.

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'Historic': Lawmaker calls Trump nominees' sexual misconduct allegations record-breaking

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested President-elect Donald Trump had made history by nominating the most people accused of sexual misconduct ever in a new administration.

During a panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile noted that Trump was trying to avoid FBI background checks for his nominees.

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Ex-Republican puts GOP on notice that Party may 'become an instrument of its decline'

Donald Trump will force Republican lawmakers to pave the way to their own demise, according to a conservative writer.

New York Times columnist David French, a former writer for the conservative National Review, wrote an article Sunday explaining how, in his view, Trump is forcing GOP members of Congress to give up their Constitutional authority. The piece coincides with the former and incoming president's efforts to subvert the Senate's power by forcing recess appointments for his administration's Cabinet nominees.

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Trump's 'dark money' transition team reportedly 'provoking alarm' with experts

Donald Trump has been quick to announce his Cabinet nominations over the last two weeks, but the president-elect has been slow to reveal the "names of the donors who are funding his transition effort," according to a Sunday New York Times report.

The Times reports:

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'Be careful what you ask for': Trump at risk of new investigations opened on his nominees

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI claimed Donald Trump's decision to only have cursory vetting performed on his Cabinet appointees could blow up in his face.

Beyond being blindsided by revelations of sexual assault allegations levied against Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, targeted to be the new secretary of defense, Frank Figliuzzi claimed members of Congress or President Joe Biden could do what Trump's people won't.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, the former FBI official explained, "Be careful what you ask for, you might get it. If you want an FBI vetting process that tells you risk and threat qualifications and competency and reputation, you're going to get it, and he may not like the answers. "

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"I think that's the chief reason he's [Trump] avoiding it," he added before elaborating, "With regard to why President Biden or the Senate Judiciary Committee might want to do this now, I do have an answer for that: the answer is they can do it."

Noting he did research on the topic, he added he, "...looked at the executive orders through history, through Clinton, Obama, looked at two pertinent memorandums of understanding (MOUs), between DOJ and Senate Judiciary, DOJ and the White House."

"Really important, a presidential transition act of 1963 that says a president can request nominee background investigations from the FBI when nominees' names are announced," he added. "What's my argument? The nominees names have been announced. If Trump isn't going to comply with the existing protocols and practices, then we should comply with it and ask the Senate and the White House to request it now."

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'A tax on the consumer': Rand Paul decimates Trump's tariff plan

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he opposed President-elect Donald Trump's plan to place tariffs on imported goods because it would be "a tax on the consumer."

The Republican lawmaker came out against the proposal during a Sunday interview on CBS after host Margaret Brennan asked if he supported billionaire hedge fund CEO Scott Bessent to be Treasury secretary.

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