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Gowdy Implores GOP: Don’t Approve “Absurd” Gaetz

“Do not use the justice system as a weapon. The message for Republicans is don’t do it on the other side either with this absurd AG pick that you just made. “Justice is different. It is a combination of policy, law and also morality. You do not use our justice system as a political weapon. Voters rejected it in November …

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Trump Taps Fox Host Sean Duffy As Transportation Sec

ABC News reports: President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as his nominee to be transportation secretary, as he continues to roll out picks for his Cabinet. Duffy is a former reality TV star who was one of Trump’s most visible defenders on cable news — a prime concern for the media-focused president-elect. Duffy …

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WaPo: Hegseth Paid Off His Sexual Assault Accuser

The Washington Post reports: Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, though he maintained that their encounter was consensual. Hegseth’s attorney said that Hegseth was “visibly intoxicated” at the time of the incident, and maintained that police who were contacted a few …

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Watters: Kennedy Will “Make Everybody Hot Again”

“This is going to be so much fun to get skinny. And having everybody be hot again. Because if you look at 1990 this was just a smoking hot country, alright? “They put ultra processed food into the food pyramid. Then everybody started getting obese and overweight. They unleashed pharmaceutical drugs into the doctors’ offices. “And they moved everybody out …

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Gowdy Blasts Gaetz As “Incompetent And Corrupt”

“You don’t have to pick between character and competency. You can actually have both in a nominee. Gaetz doesn’t have both “The overwhelming majority of his [Trump’s picks will sail through because they were grand slam picks. But you don’t root out corruption at the Department of Justice by picking a corrupt person to lead it. “So, Matt Gaetz, either …

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Service Member Flagged Hegseth As “Insider Threat”

The Associated Press reports: Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and …

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WaPo: Trump Team Reconsidering Hegseth Nomination

The Washington Post reports: Senior officials on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Friday weighed the future of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, amid new revelations that police investigated an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017. The internal turmoil over Hegseth’s future was sparked by a complaint shared with the transition team with …

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Crowley Compares Trump Picks To Founding Fathers

“Bobby Kennedy is an absolutely inspired choice for HHS, just like the rest of this cabinet. Every day, Rob, I wake up and it’s like Christmas morning. “Like what kind of incredible pick are we going to get today to fundamentally transform America? But in a good way, not in the way that Obama meant when he used that phrase, …

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Hegseth Was Investigated For Sexual Assault In 2017

CBS News reports: Pete Hegseth, the Army veteran turned Fox News host selected by President-elect Donald Trump to be defense secretary during his second term was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in 2017, Monterey, Calif. officials confirmed. The incident allegedly occurred somewhere between a minute before midnight on Oct. 7, 2017 and 7 a.m. on Oct. 8, 2017 at …

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Trump Names Fox Host Pete Hegseth As Defense Sec

The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump chose Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be his next defense secretary, elevating a television ally to run the Pentagon and lead 1.3 million active-duty troops. The choice of Mr. Hegseth was outside the norm of the traditional defense secretary, but …

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Fox Analyst: Defund NY Unless Gov Pardons Trump

“New York state needs federal money and they get a lot of it. And there is a lot that the federal government could do in terms of pulling funding from both the city and the state of New York. There’s a bunch of ways to do it through the Justice Department and other places, and you know, at the end …

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Fox Host: Cultists Didn’t “Act Out” When Trump Lost

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Here’s the thing. Those people are all entitled to their opinion and they can feel how they feel. But, he is going to be president for four years. He won a four-year term. Just deal with it. AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Some of those people — LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): I don’t think it’s …

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Watters: My Mother Didn’t Invite Me For Thanksgiving

“People are taking some space in the Watters household. I’ll have you know that I was not invited to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving. Apparently, there wasn’t enough room. She said it was a scheduling situation and then, at the last second, invited me to come over on Black Friday. I told her no thanks, I’ll be at Best Buy.” …

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Watters: Deportation Videos Are Going To Be Hilarious

“Deportation. They’re going to lose the states on this because that is a federal issue, and there will be massive clashes because you’re going to have cameras out there making sure that they capture the images of ICE coming along and taking these people away. And they deserve to be taken away. Sometimes, you have to do tough stuff, but …

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Fox’s Trey Gowdy Floats Allowing Trump A Third Term

Media Matters has the transcript: HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): I had forgotten how much they had thrown at him until just this moment, I mean I hadn’t been focused on that in the last 10 days or so. But when you look at it stacked like that, and add onto that Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, who said …

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Hannity: There Will Be No “Retribution” Against Media

“I’ve had elections that I really wanted my side to win, that they lost, and you know what, Stephen A.? I go on and I plough through and I do my job. There’s not gonna be retribution. None of the hosts of The View are gonna be taken off– I used to go on that show. They wouldn’t even allow– …

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Fox Hosts: Trump’s Prosecutors Deserve Execution

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Exactly of these — a lot of the people that were on this and wanted it so badly, how are they going to survive, do you think they need therapy? DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Yes, they definitely need therapy, and maybe also the death penalty. GUTFELD: Yes, I think the death penalty. PERINO: …

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Watters: Appoint Hannity To FCC To “Yank Licenses”

“Glenn Greenwald was on my show and he said a lot of his friends in the mainstream media say that they think the mainstream media is pro-Trump, they think the network brass and producers, writers, they think they are actually biased in favor of Trump. These are the type of people we’re dealing with. “So when Trump says we will …

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Watters: I’d Divorce My Wife If She Voted For Harris

“I don’t believe these fake stories that you’re saying on television about these guys, that they say that they voted for Trump and now they’re voting for Harris because of their daughters. ‘That is such a lie, Harold. I know you and I’ve met your friends and none of your friends strike me as that lame. And if I found …

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Fox Host: Calling Trump “Fascist” Is “Hate Speech”

“This is hate speech now. I mean, you are quoting antifa, which the ‘fa’ stands for fascism. So now are these just the glorified, more better paid members of antifa on the left? The vice president, wouldn’t she want to separate herself from that? “And by the way, they were a cause of a lot of the rioting that went, …

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