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The Orange Felon's pick to lead up the Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, is also showing some red flags in his nomination.
It turns out the Duffy has been using his campaign funds like a frat boy's slush fund even though he's been out of office for five years:
Duffy, a former GOP congressman, held $2.1 million in his principal campaign committee as of Oct.
Anyone that has even knows me, or even talked to me for five minutes, knows I love my rescue dogs, all of whom came from one of the Humane Society's campuses. So when I read about The Orange Felons latest pick to join his criminal syndicate, I saw red.
The Orange Felon picked a Boss Hogg wannabe, former Misery Republican Representative Billy Joe Jim Bob Long, to head up the IRS.
We're at the stage now where these GOP Senators are being asked directly if they support Trump's more ridiculous nominations and unsurprisingly they're giving equivocal answers. Complicating the situation is that if any of them ever says publicly what they may say privately they'd get a sharp reprimand and a possible primary opponent.
So much for right wingers being the party of "law and order," but we all knew that already, didn't we?
During a segment on this Wednesday's Primetime with Jesse Watters, while discussing the Hunter Biden pardon and insisting that Biden should pardon Trump, Watters lauded all of the "wins" Trump was supposedly racking up with his lunatic unqualified cabinet picks, and all of the "mega-bills" he's excited about Trump signing.
Watters' guest Clay Travis followed that by telling the Fox audience that Trump needs to pardon all of the January 6th insurrectionists