Garrett Graff: “I think this week’s nominations are best thought of in the vein of the scene in Jurassic Park when the scientists explain how Velociraptors are able to learn: ‘They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember.'”
“This is Donald Trump testing his limits. This is Trump seeing just how much he can get away with.”
“The sheer insanity of appointing an actually corrupt and unqualified person like Matt Gaetz, a man literally investigated by that same Justice Department in recent years for sex trafficking, to a vital post like attorney general — or appointing Tulsi Gabbard to lead the nation’s $80 billion-a-year intelligence community after years of concern that she was more closely aligned toward Russia than she is the United States — underscores how much Donald Trump is viewing this presidency as a war on the professional federal government.”
