Trump continues flailing out of the gate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : There's no three-dimensional chess either, in which Trump is putting out these extreme nominees in order to get others passed.
41% : Trump plucked Representatives Elise Stefanik of New York and Mike Waltz of Florida for positions in his administration before all the votes were counted in the very narrow races for the House.
36% : Trump would be pardoning hardened criminals no matter what.
33% : Then came The Wall Street Journal report last night that Trump is thinking about replacing Hegseth with DeSantis.
33% : Trump is showing that he'll heed their recommendations and try to install these dangerous, anti-American elements into the Cabinet.
33% : But one thing is coming into view: Even with all of these people Trump has brought in who know a lot more about how to put together an authoritarian government, his impulses will always lead.
31% : If there's any planning, particularly in the case of the reckless and dangerous insurrection defender Kash Patel, named as FBI director nominee -- who some GOP senators are worried about -- it's about Trump trying to placate the extremist figures who helped get him elected and what a payoff.
29% : And it was a big loss for Trump.
22% : Trump, on the other hand, will be acting as a thug and a tyrant.
19% : And Trump gave big, "No!" when he was was asked by a reporter just days before Gaetz's withdrawal if he'd want Gaetz to pull out.
18% : None of this is to downplay that Trump is going to do many horrible things, many of which we can't even imagine right now, but much of which we've been given ample warning about.
17% : And let me just add, the claims in the corporate media that President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden will give Trump some sort of permission to pardon criminals -- including the January 6th insurrectionists -- are idiotic and flat-out wrong.
16% : And Trump made it worse.
8% : This is all just Trump impulsively throwing out names -- Gaetz was decided upon while Trump was flying with him, and Gaetz hitched a ride after two senators had turned Trump down for the attorney general position -- and then expending capital.
7% : REUTERS/Mike Blake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYThe collapse of Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general by Donald Trump was an unforced error in which Trump used political capital, saying he was going to fight to the end.
3% : Majority Leader Mike Johnson pleaded with Trump to stop poaching House members -- Gaetz too was poached but then resigned to avoid the Ethics Committee report -- but Trump wouldn't listen.
2% : After Trump's transition team adamantly said Trump ws standing by Hegseth, reports are surfacing that Trump is about to dump him -- and possibly replace him with Ron DeSantis, who he demeaned and attacked in the primaries, among a few other contenders.

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