I wish I could say that I hope Trump is learning something, but I doubt that he is. It seems that appointing attractive young women to high positions in his legal team has drawbacks — not that he should discriminate against young women, but that being blonde is not sufficient qualification before the law.
So the Trump administration’s cases against Letitia James and James Comey have been thrown out, on the basis that the lead prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan was not qualified, and that she was illegally appointed. She was sternly rebuked by the judge, which must have been embarrassing for her.
Then a panel of judges disqualified Alina Habba straight out of her job as the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Trump hadn’t bothered to get congressional approval for her appointment, as part of his ongoing campaign to become the authoritarian emperor who doesn’t need laws, legislatures, or courts.
Their qualifications seem to have been being attractive enough to catch the king’s eye, and then being slavishly sycophantic. Please, can Pam Bondi be next in line for public disgrace?
Again, this isn’t about their looks, although Trump definitely has a type — it’s about letting their appearance override their lack of competence.
Which might have seemed a mere formality, since the Republicans had a majority in both houses of Congress, and none of those legislators dared speak out against the Dear Leader for fear of the MAGA base. But now Trump’s ratings are in the sewer, and seem unlikely to improve as his awful policies are beginning to devastate the economy.
Letitia James, who is not blonde, is extremely competent. I strongly suspect she would have beaten the charges if the trial had been allowed to proceed.
The women in Don Dong’s realm definitely exhibit a “style”. It’s similar to the Fox News “style” as well as to the “style” I saw on The Apprentice the two or three times I saw clips of that trash.
She only needed Senate approval. It’s close in the Senate, but they only needed a simple majority. Probably not that difficult to get.
It’s really difficult to understand why Don Dong’s White House gang aren’t going through these perfunctory procedures. It’s relatively painless. This isn’t just Taco…in fact I would be surprised that he has much to do directly with these things. It’s the whole incompetent bandwagon of crooks.
I’m surprised Trump didn’t appoint Gwyneth Paltrow as HHS secretary instead of that mentally depleted and morally bankrupt RFK, Jr.
@3 robro
Which certainly doesn’t get him off the hook, because he hired them. The only criteria seems to be loyalty to Trump. And yet they dare talk about meritocracy.
Reginald Selkirk @ #5 — Understood and agree. Not meant to exonerate him from responsibility for this mess. It’s his bed, he made it, he’s got to sleep in it.
How about this!? It adds a whole new meaning to the term ‘blond bombshell’
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/pam-bondi-hit-sex-discrimination-lawsuit
Pam Bondi Hit With Sex Discrimination Lawsuit After Trump Fires Woman Based On Gender
Former Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge Tania Nemer sued Attorney General Pam Bondi after the government said she was fired because President Donald Trump had the right to discriminate against her sex.
The one that continues to irritate me to no end is Caroline Leavitt. Who, unfortunately, is VERY good at her job. Which is to lie, straight-faced to the cameras 7 days a week. How she sleeps at night is beyond me
Yeah, me too.
Their latest is killing people in the Caribbean who survive the missile strikes on their boats and end up clinging to debris. It’s just murder because they can kill people.
How any of them sleep at night is beyond me.
My theory is that they are all soulless Zombies.
Except for Stephen Miller who is a soulless Vampire.
While this theory has a lot of data behind it and great explanatory power, it does lack a few things.
AFAWK, souls don’t exist. OTOH, there must be some sort of real world equivalent that they lack.
@9 raven wrote: it does lack a few things.AFAWK, souls don’t exist. OTOH, there must be some sort of real world equivalent that they lack.
I reply: I heartily agree with you. I think that these two quotes might partially provide the missing component:
The arrogant ignorant muskrat “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
vs.
the decent Hannah Arendt “the death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism”
I wish LYING leavitt’s cross would catch fire from her lies and burn her to death.
Of course, we all must realize and admit that tRUMP is the master at lying. He can’t go more than a sentence or two without lying his assets off.
They stopped counting his lies many months ago at over 35,000
O.K. I leave it to you other commenters, I’ve got to help a client with a win11 disaster.
shermanj, not at all. He is most prolific at lying, but the bulk of it is bullshitting, not lying.
And that he does it profusely does not mean one beet that he has mastered the art; on the contrary, his lies are most transparent, like the Emperor’s clothes.
Remember his very first inauguration? Biggest crowds ever? Photgraphs and video notwithstanding.
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What is he has mastered is getting people to pretend to believe his lies and to enable his venality.
(Evidently, no?)
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Best as I can tell, they’ve all done the same thing as Leavitt;
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders
• Stephanie Grisham
• Kayleigh McEnany
• Karoline Leavitt
(Leave it just screams to be employed!)
The reasons Trump didn’t get Congressional approval for Habba is a combination of Senate rules and laws about appointment for Attorney General. Habba couldn’t get out of committee to a floor vote in the Senate because of the blue slip rules. Since both Senators from New Jersey are Democrats she couldn’t get their approval. The Senate was happy to leave it that way because she would have had trouble winning a floor vote anyways. She was previously Trump’s personal lawyer, was not a good lawyer, and had no other qualifications for the job. So when the legal period for her to be an interim appointment before being approved ran out the DOJ tried to pull a fast one. They appointed Habba to be her own assistant so the assistant could be moved in to fill the job if nobody else was available. The court ruled this was major cheesing the law and a no go.
Halligan is slightly different legally. Trump’s first interim appointment was pulled (for refusing to indict Comey) and Halligan put in as an interim appointment directly. Except the law says the president gets only one interim appointment, after the first there is a different procedure where the judges in the state pick somebody to hold the job. So she was also rejected but on slightly different grounds.
JM, nope. Habba was Trump’s personal lawyer, then DOJ tried to place her as Acting U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, then Federal courts ruled the move violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, thus was disqualified and never lawfully appointed or confirmed to a DOJ role. The claim that ‘They [DOJ] appointed Habba to be her own assistant’ is false.
And here I thought they were against hiring quotas.
John @13, well I must admit, you added more helpful context. Thanks. I was reacting emotionally and didn’t do my homework like you did.
@16 Akira MacKenzie wrote: And here I thought they were against hiring quotas.
I reply: They certainly weren’t trying to fill D.E.I. quotas with these spokesweasels.
Trump doesn’t want competence. Competent people know what they’re talking about, more than he does, which makes them troublesome, They argue with him. He doesn’t want that which is why his broadcast cabinet meetings look like something out of China or North Korea.- a well-drilled chorus of obsequious sycophants massaging the Dear Leaders’ ego,
[shermanj, good. We recognise other gentlemen, in the old sense]
To be fair, Drunk Pete also got hired because he was a pretty boy.