01-13-2017, 02:10 PM
Quote:A Republican senator said flat-out on Monday that Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees should be subject to less exacting vetting standards than those of previous administrations. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) was asked by the Huffington Post if Trump’s Cabinet picks should be asked to disclose income from foreign sources, as he and 25 other senators asked of President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, back in 2013. Infohe said no. “So it’s different now because it’s Trump?” HuffPost asked. “That’s just right,” the Oklahoma senator replied.GOP Senator: ‘Yeah,’ Trump’s Cabinet Picks Should Be Treated Differently
“That’s right?” HuffPost pressed. “Yeah,” he said. In 2013, Inhofe signed onto a letter Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote to Hagel asking for “full and complete answers” on whether he had “received compensation, directly or indirectly from foreign sources.” The letter said the Senate and American people deserved to know this information before determining whether Hagel could be confirmed to lead the State Department.
Quote:A day after Donald Trump shouted down CNN reporter Jim Acosta at his first “press conference” since July and accused his network of providing “fake news,” a Republican Congressman is demanding that Acosta be fired. Two years ago to the day, Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) made national news for a tweet comparing the president of the United States — unfavorably — to Hitler. He later apologized for his observation that “Even Adolph [sic] Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn’t do it for right reasons,” and deleted the tweet. He never removed a January 2014 tweet in which he called Obama “Kommandant-In-Chef”… the Socialistic dictator,” nor others suggesting POTUS stood for “Poor Obama Trashed U.S.” But now, apparently, Weber has decided that being rude to the president is an offense worthy of firing.Congressman demands reporter be fired for being ‘disrespectful to Trump’