'Parade of skeletons': Analyst claims nominee fiasco halted Trump's plan to tout agenda
Raw StoryPresident-elect Donald Trump tried to ram through a bunch of "flagrantly unqualified" loyalists without serious scrutiny — and it ended up blowing up in his face, wrote Doyle McManus for the Los Angeles Times on Monday. One of the big problems, wrote McManus, was when Trump resisted allowing the traditional FBI background checks on nominees, "because he hoped to do without them or because he didn’t trust the G-men, or both." That controversy, though, added new fuel to the fire against Trump's other less qualified picks, with new sexual assault allegations coming out against Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth, and criticism mounting against the Director of National Intelligence nomination for former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a conspiracy theorist who has spoken favorably of the just-deposed Syrian dictator. Ultimately, McManus concluded, "His abortive proposal to finagle nominees into office without Senate confirmation alienated legislators whose help he will need over the next four years.
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