GOP senator says people 'don’t care' about FBI background checks for Trump nominees

25 Nov 2024, 18:44 by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNet

Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee with Donald Trump in 2019 (Wikimedia Commons)
Alex Henderson
November 25, 2024Bank

Some of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for his second administration have been generating considerable controversy.

Trump's more mainstream picks are likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — Trump's choice for secretary of state.

But attorney George Conway, a Never Trump conservative, has slammed some of Trump's picks as "appalling" choices the Senate should reject — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Trump's choice to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Tulsi Gabbard (Trump's pick for intelligence director).

Trump's critics have been calling for FBI background checks for Trump's nominees. But during a late November appearance on ABC News' "This Week," Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), was dismissive of the need for such checks.

Hagerty told ABC News' Jonathan Karl, "We need to get to work again. Making our military stronger is absolutely critical, and I think we're looking at a chance to do this."

When Karl noted that FBI background checks are considered an important part of the vetting process for administration nominees — asking "You don't care?" — he responded, "What the American public cares about is to see the mandate that they voted in delivered upon."

Hagerty also told Karl, "Certainly, I've been through it myself."

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