RawStory: 'Put on notice': Columnist says Trump appointees must clear a very specific bar [View all]

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RawStory - 'Put on notice’: Columnist says Trump appointees must clear a very specific bar

Matthew Chapman
November 12, 2024 8:25PM ET



As former President Donald Trump assembles the team for his next administration, he is making a very conscientious choice to pick people who will not stand in the way of a future coup, or whatever else he wants to plot, Karen Tumulty wrote for The Washington Post.

So far, many of his appointees have been members of Congress, while others are some of the more fierce loyalists from his previous administration. But there is a through-line in all of it, Tumulty wrote.

So far, many of his appointees have been members of Congress, while others are some of the more fierce loyalists from his previous administration. But there is a through-line in all of it, Tumulty wrote.

"His early picks ... suggest he has a specific standard of fealty — one that ensures that those around him will not check his worst and most dangerous impulses," she wrote, saying that it can be thought of as the "January Seventh Test." "Clearing that bar are those who, after Trump incited his supporters to overturn his 2020 election defeat by storming the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, minimized his responsibility for the bloody siege. If they managed to stomach what Trump did that day, it should be assumed they would not stand in the way of any further trampling of democratic norms that the returning president might order."

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Karen's been mass-consuming gummies. "Put on notice."