Karen Finney on Trump Picks: The ‘Number One Thing We Know’ About Them Is ‘Loyalty’ to Trump, Not Qualifications

FINNEY: “But I think there’s also another fundamental issue, if we kind of take a step back. I mean, we’re going to go through another month of, this one has a sexual assault allegation, this one doesn’t like broccoli, this one doesn’t — there are going to be all these things. But we need these deeper understandings of who these individuals are. The Atlantic had a piece this week about Hegseth, and one of the things they talked about that I find very disturbing is, he talked about purging the military of lefties, right, of — and the danger that people who are on the left, and he — in addition to saying George Floyd wasn’t murdered and other things in his books that are a little disturbing. Well, he’s going to be asked to run a Department of Defense that will have progressive people in it, that will have gay people and trans people and women in it. How will he lead that organization? How will any of these individuals lead? Obviously, the number one thing we know, it’s not their qualifications. It’s their loyalty to the president. And we also know, just given the way the president has stacked the White House team, starting with Stephen Miller, who was an architect of Project 2025, that’s really going to be the key, is, will these individuals follow what the White House tells them in implementing the plans of Project 2025?”
BASH: “But he’s not the only one. Russ Vought late on Friday was named OMB director, in charge of the budget. He was one of the lead architects of Project 2025. Did they just — they were just not telling the truth when they said that Project 2025 had nothing to do with — “
JENNINGS: “Well, look, Russ led this office in the first term, number one. Number two, there are a lot of things in the Project 2025 that are just simply non-controversial.”