Trump team warns Republicans to support Cabinet picks or face primary funded by Musk

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Trump team warns Republicans to support Cabinet picks or face primary funded by Musk

Trump's recess appointments demand seems to be meeting resistance with senators.

ByAlexandra Hutzler
November 21, 2024, 2:54 PM

As controversy continues to cloud some of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, his team has an ominous warning for Republicans who don't fall in line behind his nominees.

ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl reports that one senior Trump adviser said the message to lawmakers is, "If you are on the wrong side of the vote, you're buying yourself a primary."

"That is all," the adviser told Karl. "And there's a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it."

"The president gets to decide his Cabinet. No one else," the adviser added.

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-team-warns-republicans-support-cabinet-picks-face/story?id=116094924

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Checks and balances? Nah.

[CousinIT]

1. Mob-style thug rule. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes the most powerful crime syndicate in the history of the world.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Musk will destroy anyone who gets in his and Trump's way.

[BeyondGeography]

4. It has worked before

And it will work again. Smooth sailing for all the other dingbats ahead.

[DFW]

5. The Trumpanzees just lightened the Senate's workload by half

The constitution says the Senate shall Advise and Consent.

From now on, if it is a Republican administration, they will only be expected to consent. No advice needed or desired. Advise? Why? Who asked you?

[kimbutgar]

6. It will be interesting when him and the muskrat have a falling out

Those two gigantic egos are going to destroy each other. I think the muskrat will go overboard and remind the orange turd that he is really in charge because he had him installed.

[electric_blue68]

10. Hmmm...interesting conjecture. 👍 Let us hope it will somehow thwart some of his/their worst actions. *

*(keep hope alive!)

Sigh.

[Johonny]

8. He does know Mitch ain't running again? LOL Donald delivers MT threat.

Mitch and Co be like, alrighty then, we aren't running again .

[mzmolly]

9. Republicans should threaten to regulate twitter and overturn Citizens United

in response.

Musk can F right off.

[Hugin]

11. They're sure up to spending Musk's money like water.

Of course, once they’re in office the coffers will be laundered full.

[Jit423]

12. I think by the time primaries come around, many will be glad to lose or will have retired.