Damn! I have seen that numerous times now but it still makes me cringe.MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy asks one of @realDonaldTrump’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy. pic.twitter.com/fphQx2o1rc— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 15, 2017
Well I am not the only one to cringe, and now this Mathew Person guy is taking his ball and going home.
Courtesy of HuffPo:
President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Matthew Petersen has withdrawn his name from consideration after a video went viral of him failing to answer basic questions about law in his confirmation hearing.
“It happened,” an aide to a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee told HuffPost on Monday.
The White House later confirmed the news. “Mr. Petersen has withdrawn his nomination and the President has accepted,” a White House official told HuffPost.
In his letter to the president, Petersen said he’s withdrawing because he doesn’t want to be “a distraction” to the administration.
“I had hoped that my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television,” he said. “However, I am no stranger to political realities, and I do not wish to be a continued distraction from the important work of your Administration and the Senate.”
Yeah, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out Spanky.
Let's face the facts Donald Trump's appointees are among the least qualified folks to have EVER been nominated for a judicial, cabinet, or government position.
Personally I think they should all be rejected just as a basic rule of thumb.
That’s just so embarrassing!
ReplyDeletedrumpfs entire staff, appointments, foundation of enablers in congress will meet protest and the removal of fox news, rt, infowars and the rest of the liars today. It is high time to stop this outrageous crime against truth and facts. END fox NO news station today.
ReplyDeleteWhat does trumps judicial sister have to say about this? Is trumps sister involved in the selection of this coup de crap show?
ReplyDelete"“I would play the refs, I would keep the pressure on Mueller,” Dershowitz said. “Mueller is very concerned about his reputation.”“They should leave it be,” he added. “If they want to keep the pressure on, keep the pressure on.”
DeleteHost Steve Doocy agreed the president’s allies were working the refs, so to speak, and Dershowitz said the strategy was working brilliantly."
“He’s playing right into their hands,” Dershowitz said. “I have to tell you, I had an enormous amount of respect for Mueller having seen him up close when he was in Boston and in the government. He is not playing this effectively, he is being sloppy.”
RIGHT^
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/alan-dershowitz-cheers-attacks-on-mueller-hell-lean-over-backwards-to-make-close-calls-for-trump/
Isn't dershowitz the guy that got oj off?
DeleteHe did not prepare for the interview which is a bad sign with three months notice.
ReplyDeleteHmmm? How to reverse all this? If top control the money? How to make their money worthless is the question? How to trap a pig? The power of the people are more powerful than any corporation, person or country. Time for the top to REALize their worth. Inflated, overated, overpaid nothings raping Americans will not be good investments for 2018. In fact the people are rumbling and it aint good.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that if you asked Donald Trump basic questions about the Constitution, he couldn't answer them either.
ReplyDeleteOT? “conservation easements”
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/wealthy-landowners-including-donald-trump-are-exploiting-environmental-loophole-in-tax-code/
“The main argument the Democratic staff made against this is they said, ‘Well, gosh, 529 plans are really, really popular — people like them a lot. And if you extend them to homeschoolers, well, people are going to be really happy. That’s going to make a difference in their lives. And we, the Democrats, don’t want to see that happen on this bill so it needs to be cut out.'”
ReplyDelete“Too popular,” Fox News host Pete Hegseth agreed.
“The [Senate] parliamentarian bought that bogus argument,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ted-cruz-democrats-killed-my-giveaway-to-homeschoolers-because-they-are-against-people-being-really-happy/
How did this guy ever get a job with the Federal Election Commission? Not much of an attorney. i wonder what law school he attended. Trump University?
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
OMG,a paralegal could answer those questions! Maybe the questions were too hard:),they could have asked easier questions like what is a court house,what is evidence!
ReplyDeleteJust read trump plans to sign his tax scam at mar a lago,another big f.u. to the little people.
ReplyDeleteToo bad we can't protest by not paying our taxes in april.
Another massive data breach. See anyone can get us citizen personal data.
ReplyDeleteThis is what p ryan work should be putting people behind bars, who allow no security measures to us citizen oersonal data. "Fix congress" my arse.
The third moron to be publicly humiliated and dropped out on his own rather than be voted down, or even worse, put into a position he can't handle.
ReplyDeleteAnd Trump defends his nominations by saying he doesn't vet them, just nominates them. It's the job of Congress to vet them and if they're not qualified, then vote no.
Does that fucker Bitch McConnell know this? Because he's busy confirming every fucking asshole Trump has on his list.
Oh really,vet them, when they get 5 mins to ask questions.
DeleteI do more vetting of the people that cut my lawn.