Trump’s Second-Term Nominees: Competence Under Fire Amid Partisan Hearings › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
Here we are, more or less midway through the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s key nominations. Among those we’ve heard from are Pete Hegseth (nominated to be Secretary of Defense), Pamela Bondi (Attorney General), Marco Rubio (State), Scott Bessent (Treasury), Doug Burgum (Interior), Lee Zeldin (EPA), John Ratcliffe (CIA), and Kristi Noem (Homeland Security). Among the most notable still to come are Kash Patel (FBI), RFK Jr. (Health Human Services), and Tulsi Gabbard (National Intelligence).
I have listened to longish bits of several of the hearings. I think there are two main takeaways from the festivities.
One is the coordinated, ideologically fired attack-dog tactics of the Democrats.
The other is the strength, seriousness, and general competence of Trump’s nominees. The contrast with the dramatis personae for Trump’s first go-around is striking. Even more striking is the contrast with Joe Biden’s consiglieri. Could there be more disparate personalities than Pete Hegseth and Lloyd Austin, Marco Rubio and Antony Blinken, Pamela Bondi and Merrick Garland, and Scott Bessent and Janet Yellen?
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