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Look closely at Trump’s cabinet picks and you’ll be shocked… at the deception of the media.

The legacy media in Australia wants you to believe that Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are problematic. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a science denier. Tulsi Gabbard is cozy with Russia. Matt Gaetz was investigated for sex crimes.

It’s an interesting pitch, given that our national media barely blinked when President Joe Biden appointed his cabinet — many of whom, it turns out, warranted far deeper scrutiny.

(As just one example, Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg currently overseas all the nation’s airports and railways and a budget of tens of billions of dollars. Yet his only prior experience was as a small town mayor, and his main selling point for the role, according to ABC News, was that he is gay).

The first reason you should be skeptical about media messaging on Trump’s cabinet is that it mirrors perfectly the partisan talking points of U.S. Democrats.

Learn that this is generally how Australian reporting on the United States works:

• Democratic Party operatives announce their views
• American cable news, which leans overwhelmingly left, presents these views as unquestioned fact
• ABC News launders the same slant to Australians as “news” (at the expense of taxpayers)
• The same narrative trickles down to Australia’s newspapers and nightly news broadcasts

Once you see how the American-Aussie news game works, it’s hard to unsee it. Australians are being told what to think, not how to think — and certainly not how to think critically.

Biden Administration Declares Trump Cabinet Picks ‘Unqualified’ https://t.co/miNG5Te7kx pic.twitter.com/RxYEyurgNQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 17, 2024

Here’s a second reason you should be skeptical about critiques of Trump’s cabinet: they come from the same people who gave us Covid lockdowns and mandatory injections, who keep starting foreign wars, who are desperate to censor us, and who assure us that men can be women.

And if you needed a third reason, consider that it isn’t the American people who feel threatened by Trump staffing his cabinet with outsiders. Americans voted for exactly that — and in historic numbers. Those who feel most threatened are the Washington elites, the self-interested cronies, and those who earned their positions not by merit but by their membership in some favoured identity group.

While the views of some Trump appointees are worth probing, their priorities and policy positions fall well within the mainstream.

In any case, as independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has observed, “throughout history, most real reformers and innovators have held fringe views and have had aspects of their personalities that are problematic.”

Shellenberger hastens to add that, “In most cases, those flaws or idiosyncrasies proved to be a small price to pay for their willingness to overcome the many obstacles required to achieve serious reforms of deeply entrenched institutions.”

Trump’s nominees are weird, say elites. But it was the elites’ weird ideas that caused wars, addiction/OD crisis, Covid lockdowns, trans madness, censorship, and worse. Trump’s nominees trigger the covert narcissism of elites who are rightly defensive at their appalling record. https://t.co/ttXtPhjtD3 pic.twitter.com/5urpAcJhoB

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 17, 2024

With this important context in view, let’s take a look at some of Trump’s high-profile appointees.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump’s choice for Health Secretary is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy.

While RFK Jr. has championed free speech and environmental protection, his campaign platform centred on health. RFK has pointed out that Americans have some of the worst health outcomes in the developed world despite their abundant access to food and medication.

Fattest, Sickest Country On Earth Concerned New Health Secretary Might Do Something Different https://t.co/dS1Rolb6QX

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 16, 2024

RFK believes many of America’s health problems stem from regulatory corruption, and he wants the US to catch up to Europe in limiting the presence of chemicals, pollutants, additives, pesticides and seed oils in foods, so that Americans have access to healthier diets.

Highlighting the alarming rise in chronic diseases like diabetes and autism, RFK also wants to see far more rigorous testing for pharmaceuticals. He is particularly critical of the 72-shot vaccination schedule imposed on American children.

While the legacy media has labeled him an anti-vaxxer, RFK has no intention to ban vaccines. Rather, he wants to end vaccine mandates, returning the choice to families. He also demands gold standard science and transparency where vaccines are concerned, warning that none of the routine vaccines have been safety tested in pre-licensing placebo-controlled trials.

RFK Jr.: ” When I was a kid, there was only three vaccines, and I was compliant. But when we passed the Vaccine Act, it made vaccines very, very valuable. And all of a sudden, there was a gold rush to add a lot of new vaccines to the schedule for diseases that aren’t even… pic.twitter.com/2aTlWwGHIV

— Camus (@newstart_2024) November 15, 2024

Critics have questioned whether RFK can lead the Department of Health and Human Services without formal medical or health training. However, they conveniently ignore that Biden’s current Health Secretary Xavier Becerra also has no background in health — though he was greeted with fanfare for being the first Latino in the role.

Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine was likewise apparently chosen with identity politics in view. Levine is a biological male who identifies as a woman, and has used his office to campaign for the chemical sterilisation and surgical castration of children.

Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine, says reassignment surgery and puberty blockers for KIDS is “lifesaving, medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool” pic.twitter.com/OwSOA3cjj8

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 24, 2022

Prominent evangelicals like Mike Pence have come out in opposition to RFK’s appointment as Health Secretary due to the latter’s stance on abortion. However, since the overturning of Roe v Wade, abortion is now a states issue and not under the purview of the federal health department. It’s out of RFK’s reach. Moreover, Pence and many of his peers refused to support Trump over Kamala despite her extreme views on abortion. In other words, evangelical criticisms of RFK seem grounded in prejudice rather than principle.

In the end, Democrats must take the blame for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s eventual appointment by Trump. RFK initially tried to campaign as a Democrat but was blocked by the Democratic National Committee from challenging Biden in the primaries. When RFK sought to run as an independent, the Biden administration denied him Secret Service protection, despite the history of assassinations in his family. Finally, when RFK endorsed Trump for president and withdrew from the race, Democratic operatives in several states fought to keep his name on the ballot in an attempt to siphon votes from Trump.

The American people overcame every trick of Democrat powerbrokers to put RFK in office. If democracy means anything, then RFK deserves the opportunity to bring much-needed reform to American health.

Matt Gaetz

Another Trump nominee to furrow the brow of the Australian media is Attorney General pick Matt Gaetz, whom they have labelled “far-right” and eagerly claimed was “investigated for sex crimes”.

What Aussie journos won’t tell you is that the investigation into Gaetz was carried out by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), which for the last four years has been weaponised to put pro-life activists in jail, demonise Catholics, treat parents at school board meetings as terrorists, and otherwise go after Biden’s political opponents.

What they also won’t tell you is that the primary witness against Gaetz was Joel Greenberg, a corrupt politician currently serving jail time for the very things he accused Gaetz of doing. Greenberg made the false accusations when Gaetz refused to help him seek a pardon. A second witness had financial ties to Greenberg that made her testimony unreliable. The DOJ eventually dropped its investigation into Gaetz, acknowledging the claims were unsubstantiated and the witnesses lacked credibility.

While Gaetz has a clean criminal record, he does pose a threat to Washington powerbrokers. Gaetz has used his time in Congress to expose career politicians for insider trading, confront the FBI about its abuses against J6 prisoners, call out the Biden family for its international money laundering scheme, and hold Dr Anthony Fauci’s feet to the fire for his funding of gain-of-function research that likely led to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Australians should be asking themselves, not what’s wrong with Matt Gaetz, but who has poisoned their minds against an otherwise unknown Congressman from Florida — and why?

Mollie Hemingway delivers an absolutely masterful defense of Matt Gaetz as AG. For eight years, we haven’t had a Department of Justice, we’ve had a Department of Injustice, and too few of our leaders in DC had the spine to fight back. Gaetz has enemies in DC precisely because he… pic.twitter.com/Ak6Iuvob37

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 17, 2024

Pete Hegseth

For Secretary of Defence, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, who is being dismissed by media apparatchiks as a “Fox News host” while his real credentials are swept under the rug.

Pete Hegseth served in the military for nearly two decades, completing tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, and earning two Bronze Star medals. Hegseth studied political science at Princeton and earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard.

In addition to his television career, Hegseth has been heavily involved in advocacy for veterans, and served as the executive director of Vets for Freedom.

The question is not why Trump picked Pete Hegseth, but what threat Hegseth poses to Washington insiders.

Hegseth has authored several bestselling books warning about the corrupting influence of woke politics in the American military, which is undermining traditional values and military readiness. He has been very vocal about the need for radical reform from the top down. Many in the brass who have overseen this decline clearly have a lot to lose, as their positions of power and influence could be threatened by a critical outsider challenging the status quo.

Newly appointed secretary of defense @PeteHegseth discussed how the military went woke with @BenShapiro:

“It’s not about how the military went woke; it’s about how it allowed itself to go woke.” pic.twitter.com/1AgaISuQv7

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) November 13, 2024

It should also be noted that Hegseth is a committed Christian and a staunch advocate of homeschooling and classical Christian education.

Who would Hegseth be replacing?

Under Biden, the current Secretary of Defense is Lloyd Austin, whose appointment was highly suspicious due to his previous role on Raytheon’s board, where he earned significant pay from one of the world’s largest defense contractors. Austin’s ties to the defense industry created clear conflicts of interest, especially with the U.S. sending billions of dollars in military aid to countries like Ukraine.

In other news, the Pentagon, where Austin is headquartered, just failed its seventh consecutive financial audit after being unable to fully account for how it spent its $824 billion budget.

But the Australian legacy media wants us to believe that Pete Hegseth is the problem?

Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for National Director of Intelligence (DNI), has also faced scrutiny from Australian journalists.

Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard is a former Democrat. She previously represented her home state of Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as serving in the military for 16 years, which included a deployment to Iraq.

Gabbard has been criticised for stating that Syria’s Russian-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad is not America’s enemy. However, it is clear from Gabbard’s general stance on foreign military entanglements that she was not defending Russia, but arguing the U.S should not be pursuing another regime change war in Syria.

While Gabbard lacks specific qualifications for intelligence, the double standards of Democrats are obvious enough, since former intelligence leaders such as Obama’s CIA Director Leon Panetta and his National Security Advisor Susan Rice also lacked such formal training and nary an eyebrow was raised.

Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard does tick the requisite identity boxes, being a woman of colour and the first female combat veteran to serve in the U.S. Congress — yet these qualities are apparently irrelevant since she is no longer a Democrat.

To whom does Tulsi Gabbard pose a threat?

She is a staunch critic of regime change wars — a stance that threatens to turn off the funding tap to every beneficiary of the military industrial complex.

Moreover, in the role of DNI, Gabbard will gain access to the communications that will reveal why the Biden-Harris administration placed her on a terror watch list immediately after she criticised Kamala Harris’ fitness for the presidency.

Tulsi Gabbard informs CNN that Biden/Harris placed her on a domestic terror watchlist

“Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have taken actions both directly and indirectly to censor free speech.

I can point to my own experience.

The Biden/Harris administration added me to a secret… pic.twitter.com/DwiP8Ih2M0

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) September 1, 2024

Australia’s corporate press, laundering the lies of the U.S. legacy media — which in turn peddles Democrat talking points as truth — wants you to think that Trump’s cabinet picks are out of control.

They are out of control — out of the control of the United States’ permanent bureaucracy that has sunk a once-great country into never-ending wars, open borders chaos, cultural despair and financial bankruptcy.

Americans — who fought a war of independence to create a government of, for and by the people — were asked earlier this month who they want to lead them. They turned out in record-breaking numbers to democratically elect a team led by Donald Trump. Americans are apparently sick of the failures and gaslighting of the elite class. They voted for change.

It’s time Australia’s media stopped trying to interfere in foreign elections and started asking the same questions about our country that Americans are rightly asking about their own.

And it’s time Australians stopped falling for their lies. We’re much smarter than that.

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