Posted on 12/11/2016 8:01:38 PM PST by Steelfish
DEC 11 2016 GOP Opposition to Potential Trump Cabinet Nominees Grows by LIZ JOHNSTONE
Donald Trump's unified wall of partisan support has shown a few cracks over Cabinet appointments that run counter to both campaign promises and traditional Republican foreign policy ethos.
Breitbart, the normally pro-Trump, right-wing website formerly run by top Trump adviser Steve Bannon, accused the president-elect putting foreign labor ahead of American workers by choosing fast food CEO Andrew Puzder to lead the Department of Labor.
The Conservative Review, meanwhile, called Puzder an "open border zealot."
Meanwhile, Erick Erickson, a staunch Trump critic who applauded him for picking Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, wrote for his conservative website The Resurgent that nominating former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnunchin would mean the ratification of the "status quo."
But it was perhaps the news that Trump intends to tap ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has ties to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, that has engendered the most vocal opposition from elected officials within his party.
Marco Rubio was one of the first Republicans to take a shot a Tillerson, with the Florida senator tweeting, "Being a 'friend of Vladimir' is not an attribute I am hoping for from a #SecretaryOfState."
Sen. John McCain told NBC News on Saturday that Tillerson's ties to Russia would be the subject of any Senate confirmation hearing. On Fox News, he said the relationship was a "matter of concern."
"You want to give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt because the people have spoken. But Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying," McCain told Fox News.
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Yuck! Now I cannot wash that image out of my mind.
SWo the irrelevant crybabies in the #Never Trumper movement are still #Never Trumper. And NBC wonders why they are thought of as Fake News these days?
Irrelevant noise, not News.
No, they can vote against. Bet Trump picks up 2-5 Democrats worried about running in Red states in 2018. If not, Pence is the deciding vote of a 50-50 tie.
No surprise opposition is coming from swamp rats!
Oh no - Rubio, McPain, Graham and a few other “staunch conservatives” disagree with Trump’s picks -sounds like endorsements to me.
Open primaries. Illegals voting for McCain.
Sorry!! I abhor those two SOB’s.!
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