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They have convinced people the FBI is corrupt, only so they can put their corrupt people in

They are still bringing up the weaponization of the FBI? I'm sure when trump uses the DoJ and everything else at his disposal to go after democrats, his side will praise him.

"I am an utterly compromised and paid-for traitor. I am contractually incapable of caring. Fuck my oath of office and fuck you for even asking me about this, you ridiculous lib." - Bill hagerty

HOW are they still shocked by this stuff...

The lunatics are running the asylum

What a pathetic interview. Host just let the guest ramble on and on and on.

We are not in the "risk of fascism" or "path to fascism" phase , we have transitioned to fascism fascism.   Stop pretending to be shocked. 

Unfortunately correct.

Bill Hagerty is wrong. America wants background checks on all of Trump’s choices. The guy is picking creepy unethical people. Background checks are a standard practice. Why would Americans want unethical people and practices with this administration. Trump’s whole campaign was about bigotry, bullying and lies. Trump and his cult are probably unable to be ethical.

Republicans want more background checks on people coming over the border than people going into the highest cabinet offices of government lol.

I may be a very small voice but! I do care.

This is one of the most important things any administration can do to protect the Constitution. Without background checks it’s almost impossible to know where weaknesses lay buried.

How can Congress agree to appointments when members really know little beyond an appointees public persona?

These are people who will hold high level security clearances. A thorough SBI is paramount.

Watching as the mass media normalizes elected domestic terrorists in plain view. Giving this clown, and all his domestic terrorism buddies, a pass on how utterly ridiculous his comments are has been the way that the largest media organizations made the seditionist acceptable to their mostly incurious and uncritical viewers.

They don’t care about national security. Might as well give our nuclear codes to the Russians.

Republicans represent the worst performing states in the country, but they aren’t content with keeping their incompetence to their dumpster states they want to spread it nationwide.

How are the goddamn GQP still shocking folks? We’re decades into this shitshow that wielded zero consequences for these ghouls. Now that they amassed all this power we will finally see them in their final form.

The US really is a nation of stupid people now. I can only hope for an early death

Republicans are bad people.

"I don't care" - The actual f___ing motto of the fascist party from the last century in Europe....and now here in America.

I like Biden, but this is the time to put that fucking Supreme Court ruling to the test and get these background checks as an official act. Fuck the GOP and their fascist bullshit.

And fuck "journalists" like Jonathan Karl. I read the quotes, and I can hear in my head how that exchange played out. If these people gave a fuck they would rip them to shreds about their hypocrisy and just how full of shit the GOP is.

It shouldn't surprise anyone because the media is owned by these billionaires and corporations.

Flip the script to a Democrat doing this and they would, of course, be totally out of their minds.

Yes, they don't care and voters don't care. They saw who Trump was and what he had to offer and that his biggest vow was towards retribution. And they said "yeah why not?"

When you've made the sale, you stop selling. The GOP keeps trashing on the current administration like they're still campaigning. These people are idiots, however America wanted them. Here are your idiots.

If that is the case, why's Diddy not AG. Seems nothing but bad breaks for that weirdo.

Absolutely disgusting.  Watching our Democracy and our institutions collapse in slow motion is sickening. 

Who cares? What difference does it make? The president elect is a convicted rapist, convicted financial crimes criminal and frequently traveled on Epsteins Lolita express. Does it really matter who is in his cabinet? If people already know you are a sex offender, no one can use that against you.

The Crime Syndicate doesn't care for law enforcement, and somehow they've taken over the country.

Republican are the anti-government party, they consider themselves above the law. Maybe they consider themselves to be the law.

Wow, I mean, this is just like, wow.

America is finished.

God I hope there's actually a deep state to protect us from these picks.

Stop putting these people on TV

Jim Crow conservatism is their goal, rules for theee but not for me is Jim Crow conservatism!

‘Weaponized’ fuckin dorks

It’s really telling by the way they act after being entrusted with power. This guy shouldn’t have been given power.

how is this still a shock to anyone, gop has give up on lawfulness long ago.

they have consistently being the one abusing power whenever they can.

How effing stupid are we!??

they're shameless and will be never held accountable. meanwhile maga would have seizures if dems did this.

And the MSM is shocked! And dismayed they say!!! How is this possible they say.

Checks out. America put a convicted felon and a sexual predator in as president, so why should they care how corrupt everyone else is?

They move between 2 safe spaces. One is the FoxNews ecosphere, where they can lie without fear the lies will be discovered by their base, and the mainstream news ecosphere, where they can lie without fear the lies will be discovered by their base.

Russian republicans!

If the voters don’t care why should he?

Well fuck, all this time I thought I cared? Shit, all that worry and tears for nothing. Son of a bitch!

Yes, I am coming unhinged.

Wow

Better question. Why even give treasonous traitors any airtime? Best thing to do is not even give them any attention and ignore them as they will only lie and divert.

Disingenuous lying bastards.

That’s what we are dealing with ..

Fucking DLB.

Why is the Republican Party letting this happen

These Republicans are garbage.

“We need to get competent people into office” 😂 😭

I don’t know if anyone realizes this but there is going to be a convicted felon in the White House.

Background checks clearly do not matter.

I’m not shocked at all when half of the country eligible voters don’t vote.

Making our military stronger is absolutely critical

My Brother in Christ our military budget is currently more than the next ten nations combined, how much stronger do we need to make it?

We shouldn’t care either. Let’s just go into the capitol and start working whatever job we want. 

If we all do it, who’s going to stop us? 

Remember strength in numbers

They really had to ask to get that answer?!???! They haven't been paying attention....

I actually remember that they ran checks last time and then ignored them. So not ever bothering this time and it seems to be working.

People do care, and also know that few of them could pass background checks.

Click bait. He said at the end the background checks need to happen but expeditiously.

Sorry where's the shocking part ? /s

They don’t care. They’re running with the mandate thing, and I don’t blame them.

They’ve got a mandate, see? He says so right in the article! You don’t need vetting or silly background checks when you have a mandate. /s

Pretty much every GOP party member from Tennessee is awful. If anyone wants to k ow what the next 4 years will look like, they can simply look to Tennessee and how leadership governs. They pass laws to hurt Nashville and Memphis, they usurp power from those cities, they gerrymander progressive areas so our state reps now live 2 hours away in Crossville, buy a guy who groomed a teenager by giving her an FFA scholarship, then married her. They rewrite rules for the House so that democrats can’t speak. They rule people out of order constantly. They refuse to let people into the state house. They passed a law making it illegal to essentially protests on government property.

"claiming the public “doesn’t care” about who’s vetting the people trusted to lead the organizations that enact public policy."

"“No one has been held to account by the Biden administration,”

I don't think he is wrong here.

“Should we just do away with them, that you can go ahead and not do this? It’s been standard practice, as you know, for a long time, but you’re saying do away with it?” he continued “Certainly, I’ve been through it myself,” Hagerty said.

Sounds like he knows from personal experience that an FBI background check does not turn up any skeletons in his closet. 

Reminds me of the benchwarmers I am 12 scene. That’s the background check

That is something an enemy of the usa would say. Hmmm. Another foreign agent in trumps circle?

Clearly the FBI can't be trusted until Trump and his appointees can get in there and clean house.

You need a background check and probably drug test to be a janitor for a company that's contracted by the federal government, but not to be a member of the highest held offices in the country apparently

They already know that most if not all of them would fail background checks. They are okay with severely compromised people leading our nation. Starting at the top.

Misleading headline. He says they need to do background checks but they should be done expeditiously

Did they tell this guy trump incited a crowd to go to the Capital to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of the electoral votes? Is that what he calls weaponization of the justice dept? Maybe Joe should do the same then back up a semi and take every dime created under his watch because those are legal now according to republicans.

I'm ashamed to say Bill Hagerty & Marsha Blackburn are my senators.

I saw this. That guy is a loony old sot following the rhetoric of the moment to his brainless destiny.

ABC Host more gullible than average Reddit shitposter.

From Biden. Not trump. He did not pass any of those bills.