Iraq war veteran puts spotlight on Pete Hegseth's war crime stance, calls it ‘a problem’ for America

 

ALLISON JASLOW ADDRESSES THE DISGRACE OF PETE HEGSETH 

LOBBYING FOR THE PARDON OF CONVICTED WAR CRIMINALS! 

SENATORS SHOULD HAVE ASKED PETE HEGSETH ABOUT THE ISSUE! 

SENATOR WARREN: PETE HEGSETH ASKED ABOUT HEGSETH'S RECENT 

COMMENT THAT WOMEN DON'T BELONG IN THE MILITARY 

SENATOR ERNST: ASKED ABOUT WOMEN IN THE MILITARY & PETE 

HEGSETH TAP DANCED AROUND THE ISSUE OF 'STANDARDS' 

SENATOR GILLIBRAND CHALLENGED PETE HEGSETH'S COMMENT 

ABOUT QUOTAS THAT DON'T EXIST! PETE HEGSETH LIES!

 

ALLISON JASLOW: Thank you for addressing PETE HEGSETH's lobbying for PARDONS for WAR CRIMINALS! These men were convicted by their PEERS - not civilians! There is no whitewashing that PETE HEGSETH is UNQUALIFIED!

Throughout the rest of the hearing, Hegseth continued to reveal his unfitness across any number of categories: He could not name any of the three main international security agreements. He did not know what countries are part of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He would not discount seizing Greenland if Donald ordered him to do so. He would not say whether the Director of Defense should frequent strip clubs and harass strippers while under the influence of alcohol. Under constrained circumstances (committee chair Roger Wicker [R-MS]) limited senators to one round of questioning during which they had seven minutes to speak with the nominee), Democrats did their jobs while Republicans complained about it. … Hegseth denied committing a sexual assault against the woman who sued him where he settled the lawsuit, paid her money, and secured an NDA. He refused to say whether he would release her from her NDA. When asked about his judgment on getting drunk and having sex with a woman at a work-related conference two months after his 3rd wife gave birth (who he impregnated during his 2nd marriage), he refused to even admit they had sex at all.

FBI DID A SHAM BACKGROUND CHECK! Co-workers have commented that PETE HEGSETH got so INTOXICATED PUBLICLY, that he had to be CARRIED back to his room & slept through flights the next day. PETE HEGSETH claims they're FAKE NEWS ....the FBI needs to question those who have publicly commented. There are too many reports & documentation of EXCESSIVE DRINKING!

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Drunk Trump nominee chanted "kill all Muslims"

 

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send Matt Gaetz packing

 

Donald Trump is rushing out cabinet picks, each more absurd and disastrous than the last.

All of them are categorically unqualified.

All of them are MAGA adherents from whom Trump expects — and has reason to expect — absolute fealty.

If confirmed by the Senate, all of them will be a significant threat to the American people, our democracy, our planet, and everyone on it.

Perhaps the worst pick so far — though the competition is stiff — is Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.

• Matt Gaetz is a sycophantic, degenerate buffoon.

• He is also a January 6 die-hard, an anti-voter extremist, and one of Donald Trump’s most servile henchmen in Congress. He is hostile to civil rights and environmental protections. And more.

• The House of Representatives was about to issue the reportedly damning results of an ethics investigation into Gaetz — until he resigned his seat in Congress yesterday.

• It’s actually difficult to come up with someone who would be a worse choice as our country’s top law enforcement official than Matt Gaetz.

By choosing Gaetz, Trump is trolling his own party. It’s a loyalty test: Will Senate Republicans reject Gaetz — who they know is manifestly unsuited for the job, and who they dislike intensely — or will they submit to Trump yet again?

But Gaetz is so ethically compromised — and so universally despised within Congress, even among other Republicans — that there is a real chance of blocking him.

The Senate will begin voting on whether or not to confirm Matt Gaetz and Trump’s other cabinet picks very soon after Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025, so we have to start fighting these picks now.

To the 100 people who will be senators once Trump is president:

You must oppose the nomination of Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General. He is utterly unqualified, hostile to the Department of Justice’s core values, and a dangerous and intolerable choice to head the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

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Trump's absurd pick for Attorney General

 

Donald Trump is rushing out cabinet picks, each more absurd and disastrous than the last.

All of them are categorically unqualified.

All of them are MAGA adherents from whom Trump expects — and has reason to expect — absolute fealty.

If confirmed by the Senate, all of them will be a significant threat to the American people, our democracy, our planet, and everyone on it.

Perhaps the worst pick so far — though the competition is stiff — is Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.

• Matt Gaetz is a sycophantic, degenerate buffoon.

• He is also a January 6 die-hard, an anti-voter extremist, and one of Donald Trump’s most servile henchmen in Congress. He is hostile to civil rights and environmental protections. And more.

• The House of Representatives was about to issue the reportedly damning results of an ethics investigation into Gaetz — until he resigned his seat in Congress yesterday.

• It’s actually difficult to come up with someone who would be a worse choice as our country’s top law enforcement official than Matt Gaetz.

By choosing Gaetz, Trump is trolling his own party. It’s a loyalty test: Will Senate Republicans reject Gaetz — who they know is manifestly unsuited for the job, and who they dislike intensely — or will they submit to Trump yet again?

But Gaetz is so ethically compromised — and so universally despised within Congress, even among other Republicans — that there is a real chance of blocking him.

The Senate will begin voting on whether or not to confirm Matt Gaetz and Trump’s other cabinet picks very soon after Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025, so we have to start fighting these picks now.

To the 100 people who will be senators once Trump is president:

You must oppose the nomination of Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General. He is utterly unqualified, hostile to the Department of Justice’s core values, and a dangerous and intolerable choice to head the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

Click to add your name now.

Thanks for taking action.

For justice and democracy,

- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen
 
 

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President Biden can’t fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, but weary USPS workers hope he’ll bring change

By DAVID SHARP

ASSOCIATED PRESS |

FEB 07, 2021 

PORTLAND, MAINE — The U.S. Postal Service’s stretch of challenges didn’t end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during the holiday rush, leading to long hours and a mountain of delayed mail.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has vowed to make improvements after facing withering criticism and calls for his removal for his actions that slowed delivery of mail before the election. Some critics hoped President Joe Biden would fire DeJoy, but a president can’t do that. Instead, Biden could and likely will use appointments to reshape the Board of Governors, which meets Tuesday for the first time since his election.

It’s unclear how swiftly Biden’s administration will move. A White House spokesperson declined to comment on upcoming appointments.

Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said he’s hoping for some “bold appointments” by Biden.

“We want a Board of Governors that understands fundamentally this is not called the United States Postal Business,” he said. “It’s not a profit-making business. It’s here to serve the people.”

A change in tone, at the least, would be welcomed by postal workers after former President Donald Trump called the Postal Service “a joke” last year in criticizing business practices that led to a growing operating deficit.

A U.S. Postal Service worker wears gloves while he stops at a collection box in Northeast Philadelphia in April. (Tim Tai / The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Despite the pandemic, on-time rates for first-class mail topped 90% for most of the year until DeJoy took office in June and began instituting changes that raised concerns about the delivery of mail-in election ballots. Workers decried DeJoy for limiting overtime and late or extra trips, resulting in delayed mail, and the dismantling of sorting machines ahead of the election.

All told, the Postal Service successfully delivered more than 130 million ballots to and from voters during the general election.

But by the time Christmas arrived, it had gotten so bad that more than a third of first-class mail was late, a dismal performance, even though DeJoy had backtracked on some of his changes by then.

At the holiday peak, tractor-trailers chock full of mail were left idling outside some postal-sorting facilities across the country because there was no room inside. Packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs. Delays grew by days, and then weeks.

A number of factors contributed to the nightmare.

Americans were using the Postal Service at unprecedented level because of the pandemic. Overtime couldn’t make up for the impact of postal workers’ COVID-19 illnesses and quarantines. Commercial flights that transport mail operated on reduced schedules. And FedEx and UPS dumped packages on the Postal Service when they reached their limit.

“At Christmastime, you could barely move in the facility,” said Scott Adams, local president of the American Postal Workers Union in Portland, Maine. “Aisles were blocked with mail.”

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill on Aug. 24, 2020. (Tom Williams/AP)

Jay Geller said it took 30 days for a birthday card mailed after Christmas from his mother-in-law in Iowa to reach her 8-year-old grandson at his home in Cleveland. And don’t get him started on the homemade scones from Minnesota, which were late and inedible.

“By the time they arrived, they were hard as rocks and smushed flat,” he said.

Terri Hayes experienced “Christmas in January” when many of her packages arrived late in Medina, Ohio. The last gift to arrive was a necklace and charm sent by a friend in Maryland on Dec. 5. It arrived on Jan. 28.

She sympathizes with overworked postal workers but also worries about more important items, like bills, being delayed.

“I just wish that they would put things back to the way they were when it worked,” Hayes said. “Put the sorting machines back. Let them work the overtime hours.”

The Postal Service contends it has now returned to “pre-peak” conditions, and DeJoy and six members of the board said they’ve learned from the election and the record holiday season in which more than 1.1 billion packages were delivered. The postmaster general and board are working on a 10-year plan that will include improvements.

“We must confidently plan for our future — which we believe is bright for the Postal Service and for America,” they said in a statement.

Critics have called for DeJoy to be fired. And Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, wants Biden to fire the entire Postal Service Board of Governors for what he called dereliction of duty.

The Board of Governors, which selects the postmaster general, is currently made up of Trump appointees. The vice chair resigned in protest over the Trump administration’s actions. That leaves a chairperson, Robert Duncan, who is a former Republican National Committee chair, along with three other Republican members and two Democratic members.

If Biden fills all vacancies, then Democratic members would hold a majority, though the board is officially bipartisan. No party may hold more than five seats on the nine-member board.

The postmaster general and deputy postmaster general vote on some but not all issues brought before the board.

Dimondstein said the recent announcement of more than 10,000 more permanent jobs in distribution hubs is a down payment on addressing problems. DeJoy has to come around to further changes to improve service and morale, he said.

“He’s either going to do right by the people of the country. Or he needs to go,” Dimondstein said.

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