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Trump Admin staffers accepted despite potential scandals discovered in vetting them

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Massive leak of Trump transition vetting documents shows "red flags" deliberations - Axios
Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to "Axios on HBO" identify a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.

Why it matters: The massive trove, and the story behind it, sheds light on the slap-dash way President Trump filled his cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that beset his government.
Listing Scott Pruitt, Tom Price, Mick Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani.

"Red flags": David "Petraeus Is Opposed to Torture." Rex "Tillerson's Russia ties go deep." Laura "Ingraham said people should wear diapers instead of sharing bathrooms with transgender people." Kris Kobach had connections to white-supremacist groups. About Roy Cohn, "Some Say Cohn Has An Abrasive, Curt, And Intimidating Style. He Would Sometimes Hike Up One Leg And Plant His Foot On A Trader's Desk, His Thigh Close To The Employee's Face, And Ask How Markets Were Doing." Seema "Verma was simultaneously advising Indiana ($3.5 million in contracts) on issues impacting how it would spend Medicaid funds while she was also being paid by a client that received Medicaid funds. Ethics experts have called the arrangement a conflict of interest that potentially put Indiana taxpayers at risk." Agriculture Secretary Sonny "Perdue is the owner of Houston Fertilizer and Grain, a company that has received contracts from the Department of Agriculture."

Donald Trump was willing to meet with, and sometimes hire, people who had strongly criticized him. Nikki Haley: he is everything "we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten." Ryan Zinke described him as "un-defendable." Rick "Perry described Trumpism as a 'toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition.'"

Laura Ingraham was considered for White House press secretary.
 
File this under... 'No kidding, really?' And the GOP will file this under S for Shredder. Nothing changes, this disaster continues.
 
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