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After Reports Suggest Trump Seeks to Privatize USPS, Progressives Speak Out
The Washington Post reports Trump is “keen” for a scheme that would hand the USPS over to for-profit, private interests.truthout.org
And somewhere in an alternative universe, President-Elect Donald Trump is organizing his administration, and is getting high praise for his cabinet choices.And somewhere in an alternate universe, President-Elect Kamala Harris is organizing her administration, and is getting high praise for her cabinet choices...
Sheriff Chad Chronister, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration, withdrew his name from consideration for the office on Tuesday, only three days after he was nominated.
Sheriff Chronister, who is in charge of the sheriff’s department in the Florida county that is home to Tampa, announced his withdrawal in a message on social media, saying that as “the gravity of this very important responsibility set in,” he had changed his mind about accepting the nomination...
While he had a 30-year background in local law enforcement, he had no experience in the geopolitical aspects of the drug war...
After his nomination, Sheriff Chronister immediately came under fire from some of Mr. Trump’s most ardent right-wing supporters for his decision to vigorously enforce Covid-19 regulations during the pandemic. His critics pointed in particular to his arrest of a Florida pastor in March 2020 for holding a church service in violation of lockdown rules.
A Pennsylvania native who once worked in construction and as a hotel bellhop, Sheriff Chronister married into a family with ties to Mr. Trump more than a decade ago. His father-in-law, Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., has donated to Mr. Trump’s political campaigns and received a pardon from Mr. Trump in 2020.
The pardon expunged Mr. DeBartolo’s guilty plea in 1998 stemming from an extortion plot connected to a riverboat casino license that a company he invested in was seeking in Louisiana.
Donald Trump’s nominee for US surgeon general – Dr Janette Nesheiwat – accidentally knocked over a gun when she was 13 years old, causing it to fire and fatally shoot her father in the head.
The death of Nesheiwat’s father occurred in February 1990 at her family home in Umatilla, Florida, as reported on Friday by the New York Times.
Annudder one bites the dust.
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Trump’s Pick to Lead D.E.A. Withdraws, Citing ‘Gravity’ of Job
The announcement by Chad Chronister, a Florida sheriff with virtually no experience in the kinds of complex international investigations the agency handles, comes just three days after his selection.www.nytimes.com
Oh... and this little factoid...
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That was the cover story. He was torpedoed by the religious right because he charged a pastor for violating COVID-19 social distancing rules.At least he has enough sense to realize he's not up to the job, very rare in Trump world.
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for US defense secretary, has been accompanied by a security guard with a history of alleged military misconduct.
John Jacob Hasenbein, a former army special forces MSgt who deployed to Iraq eight times, was found guilty of aggravated assault in a 2020 court-martial stemming from a 2019 incident at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the New York Times reports. The incident involved the violent treatment of Ahmed Altameemi, a civilian role player in a simulated hostage rescue training scenario.
According to court documents and witness statements observed by the Times, Hasenbein allegedly kicked, punched, and left Altameemi hogtied in a pool of his own blood, causing multiple injuries including a broken nose and significant facial trauma.
Although a military court-martial found Hasenbein guilty of aggravated assault in 2020, a mistrial was declared after it emerged that a fellow soldier had inappropriately influenced a juror. The army did not retry the case.

