'Cast of dangerous clowns': Columnist claims Cabinet picks reflect 'allure of Trumpism'
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'Cast of dangerous clowns': Columnist claims Cabinet picks reflect 'allure of Trumpism'

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The kind of man Stephen King would depict luring unsuspecting children into sewers is the kind President-elect Donald Trump would pick for the secretary of education, a political columnist argued Tuesday. Salon writer Amanda Marcotte on Tuesday made the case that Trump is actively seeking out men accused of sexually assaulting women for top positions in his administration or, as she calls it, his "cast of dangerous clowns." The congressional Ethics committee investigated whether former Rep. Matt Gaetz sexually assaulted an underage girl, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been accused of sexually assaulting his children's babysitter and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room, reports show. Marcotte argued Trumpism came as response to the #MeToo movement that sought to hold men such as film mogul Harvey Weinstein — the convicted rapist Trump recently complained had been "schlonged" — accountable for attacking women.

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Trump's Cabinet picks seemingly require 'sexual abuse' allegations on resumes: Journalist
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Trump's Cabinet picks seemingly require 'sexual abuse' allegations on resumes: Journalist

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The Bulwark's editor-in-chief continued to express his disgust Tuesday with Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees who have allegations revolving around sex scandals in their past. What he finds most interesting, he said, is "the degree to which Donald Trump is humiliating the Republican Senate." Meanwhile, Sykes said that Trump is also threatening to strip the U.S. Senate of their constitutional "advise …

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