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Rupert Murdoch, the Fox News “Daddy” and mastermind behind the New York Post, is having a full-blown meltdown over two of Trump’s cabinet picks: Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. So much so that he deployed his media henchmen to write a hit piece designed to guilt President Trump into pulling these two America First powerhouses off the list.
This time, the Post tried a new strategy—they figured flattery might get them somewhere with Trump. The article starts off on the right note, praising Trump’s historic victory (after all, the paper did endorse him) and applauding many of his nominees.
[President Trump] rightly sees his thumping victory in both the Electoral College and popular vote as a mandate — make that a plea — from the people to reverse the disastrous four years of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration.
His choice of Tom Homan as border czar shows he’s serious about stopping the dangerous, out-of-control migrant crisis.
He’ll have a steady hand at the tiller with chief of staff Susie Wiles, and smart operators in Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Doug Burgum as energy czar.
Rumor has it that Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, is a possibility for Treasury, but others in the mix sound good, too — at least they won’t pursue the free-money, high-inflation, no-growth policies of the Biden years.
And three cheers for the Department of Government Efficiency.
And right on cue, Team Murdoch takes a predictably establishment turn. The Post doesn’t want President Trump to “rock the boat,” so they trot out a list of tired “what ifs” that have always been used to scare Republicans into submission. For decades, this tactic has worked to stop the GOP from pushing back, even as they’ve been battered and bruised by endless Democrat beatdowns.
This is the old-school way of thinking, the same outdated mindset that establishment politicians are programmed to follow in today’s twisted world of US politics.
The Post piece goes on:
Trump shouldn’t be so insistent that recess appointments be used to install his choices.
The recess loophole was introduced at a time before airplanes and telephones, a necessity for making sure the government didn’t grind to a halt because the Senate was scattered across our fledgling nation.
It was not meant to bypass the constitutional balance of powers — nor prevent the Senate from saving a president from himself.
A mass recess appointment won’t save much time, and creates a dangerous precedent.
What will happen when an incoming Democratic president wants to install Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as secretary of the treasury?
It’s bad enough we had Alejandro Mayorkas as Biden’s gormless Homeland Security secretary. What happens when all guardrails are removed?
We can predict what President Trump’s answer might be: Someone else’s problem.
Exactly.
It’s not our problem. Our problem is today, and President Trump has a clear mandate from the American people—they want the boat rocked in a big way.
Now, this next section is the part of the article where we witness the real Murdoch meltdown. Murdoch and his team of agreeable RINOs are so terrified of exposing the Uniparty and taking down the Deep State that they’ve resorted to begging President Trump to reconsider two of his most powerful nominees: Gabbard and Gaetz.
These two powerhouses are poised to drain the swamp, and Murdoch and company don’t want them anywhere near the government. So, what does that tell you about Murdoch—and, more importantly, Fox News?
The Post piece continues:
But he should consider how the needless battles of today can impact him — and his legacy — tomorrow.
Rethink these picksWhich brings us to the reason Trump is pushing so hard for recess appointments: Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard.
While most of the Cabinet picks have been excellent, and some of them risky but promising, Gaetz and Gabbard are dreadful.
We plead that he rethinks them.
They’re distracting chaos agents who won’t accomplish what Trump wants them to, and will most likely backfire on his agenda.
The Post then turned its sights on Tulsi, claiming she wouldn’t provide President Trump with the “security briefings” he needs. In other words, they’re accusing her of going rogue to stop wars and push an “isolationist” agenda.
Really? The folks at the Post seem desperate to keep endless wars alive. What they fail to understand is that President Trump and his entire base are unapologetically anti-war. The America First movement isn’t about isolationism—it’s about focusing on our own country and refusing to waste precious time, money, and resources on conflicts halfway around the world. The Post piece goes on:
Start with Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence.
We can see the affinity — Trump opposed the Iraq war and wants to limit our foreign escapades, as does she.
But Trump also understands Teddy Roosevelt’s maxim of speaking softly with a big stick.
He pulled out of the toothless Iran nuclear deal, then killed Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian agent who was fomenting terrorism through the region.
Gabbard backed the Iran deal, and said the Soleimani killing undermined our national security.
She’s been sympathetic to dictators in Syria and Russia, blaming instead the victims of violence like Ukraine and Israel.
She’s all speaking softly and with no stick.
And then it was Matt’s turn. In pure “Mitch McConnell fashion,” the Post trotted out every left-wing talking point and attack against Gaetz, even claiming his “colleagues” think he’s a sleazeball. Colleagues like Cornyn, the RINO who bends over backward to do the left’s bidding? Please. Matt should wear that as a badge of honor. The Post piece goes on:
But even worse is Matt Gaetz, Trump’s nominee for attorney general.
After years of Russia, Russia, Russia, no one has more reason to dislike the Department of Justice than Trump.We can understand him wanting to throw a hand grenade into a system that investigated parents at school-board meetings but turned a blind eye to migrant gangs.
But we don’t want him to be blown up by his own grenade.
Gaetz may provide the disruption, but he has neither the ethics nor the discipline to rebuild a proper system that will pursue fair prosecutions.
The congressman may have convinced Trump that he is the subject of “lawfare,” but it’s obvious all he wants is an escape hatch.
And Gaetz’s own run-in with the law diminishes how the Dems relentlessly hounded Trump.
He resigned from Congress before the release of an ethics report that reportedly accuses him of having sex with underage girls at drug-fueled parties.
His own colleagues say he’s a sleaze.
It’s clear that Murdoch is taking this election win hard for a number of reasons. First, President Trump cut him out of the loop entirely, leaving a man who once called all the shots in US politics standing on the sidelines with absolutely nothing to do. Trump abandoned the Fox News echo chamber—and rightfully so, since they abandoned him the moment Roger Ailes left—and instead he used alternative media to get his message out, which was brilliant. He reached a whole new audience of voters who turned out for him.
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It was a smart move that also served as the final dagger for cable news, which was already on life support. Now, as President Trump continues to distance himself from the status quo with his unconventional nominees, he’s drifting further out to sea, leaving establishment-driven cable news and buttoned-up conservative media in the dust. And they’re scrambling—they have no idea what to do next.
At this point, Fox’s only option is to get on bended knee and literally beg President Trump to “play nice” and allow the Democrats to get another free pass.
But that’s not going to happen this time around, and Murdoch knows it. The media knows it too. They’re powerless to stop what’s coming—and that’s the first real step toward Making America Great Again.
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