PBS’s weekly political roundtable Washington Week with the Atlantic gathered for the second time since Donald Trump’s reelection and showed revulsion to his proposed cabinet picks. Particularly put out was veteran liberal New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller, who used aggressively antagonistic language to describe two picks. It’s a “rogues’ gallery,” including Tulsi Gabbard, a “girlfriend” of the Russians.
The dictionary defines “rogues’ gallery” as “a collection of pictures of persons arrested as criminals.” Which of the cabinet picks are criminals?
Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the slanted stage up with this poison-pill encapsulation of Trump’s first few nominees.
Jeffrey Goldberg: Donald Trump names a vaccine denier to head the Health and Human Services Department. For attorney general, he picks a person who most likely…
