The “Big Ugly” was always a description of the battle that few understood. You cannot be betrayed by your enemies; that happens when your allies reveal themselves against your interests. Majority Leader John Thune will play his cards carefully in order to extract maximum damage.
The Senate is factually the core of republican opposition to MAGA and President Trump. The visible battle against Obama, Biden, Harris and the professional political left, always consumes the most attention. However, it is the less-visible battle against the entrenched ideological republicans that proves to be the hardest.
The Republicans in the upper chamber will not relinquish power easily. They have a multitude of weapons to use against the insurgency of President Trump supporters. We are seeing this play out now in the alignment of Republican Senators who stand in opposition to President Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General, and this recent report aligns with exactly the type of move we would expect.
The basic outline is that senate leadership will reluctantly support Matt Gaetz for Main Justice, where ‘support’ means they will not directly oppose; in exchange for the nomination of FBI Director Mike Rogers to defend their interests at FBI.
This is the typical type of deal the DeceptiCons are well known for.
Thune and McConnell (in background) have yet to reveal who they have planned to place in the chair positions of multiple committees. We are very interested to see who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence because that mutually dependent relationship is the core of the IC influence in the legislative branch. The same may be said for the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and ultimately the Gaetz nomination.
This recent report aligns with information we have received from the senate staff offices who are discussing the Gaetz nomination. Thune would not make such a proposal openly, for obvious reasons, but intermediaries would relay the message between the upper chamber and the transition team.
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President Donald Trump would regret the day, if such terms were agreed. Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers is a well-known deep state operative who would be guaranteed to work closely with the Intelligence Community in opposition to the interests of those who would like to see the FBI reformed or structurally rebuilt.
Mike Rogers himself came from within the FBI and then went to congress where he carried the agenda of the FBI into the House Intel Committee. It was that IC agenda that led to the Rogers/Ruppersberger report exonerating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Benghazi fiasco that led to Ambassador Chris Stephens murder.
There is no deal like this that is worth making. The DNI (Tulsi), DHS (Noem), HHS (RFK JR) and DOJ (Gaetz) nominations should stand on their own – along with a radical reform nomination, at best, for the FBI.
This type of deal is exactly how the IC can hunker down and avoid the sunlight of investigation upon their corrupt operations. This type of deal is how the counterintelligence division of the FBI can simply operate to protect the DOJ-NSD embeds that will attempt to remain in power within Main Justice. This type of deal is how the FBI remains entirely political.
The MAGA majority needs to keep leaning forward and telling the Senate republican representatives about their expectations for support. Don’t let the scheming and conniving Senate Republican “leadership” have an inch of breathing space.
NO DEAL!
Get Gaetz through in exchange for the DemonRinoRat Rogers. Tell him there are budget issues and his office furniture can only be rented at the moment. Then fire Rogers as soon as Gaetz is confirmed. Simple solution. Don’t let the door hitcha SwampRat!
But what if they simply close the FBI down? Or defund it?
Yep No deal.
NO DEAL!
i can’t imagine Trumps makes this kind of sellout deal
Agreed, NO DEAL.
Mike Rogers could destroy the whole Trump administration like Comey and the FBI has done since 2015.
That’s exactly what Thune wants to do!
Jeff Clark explains how the president can force the senate to recess and then fill the subordinate Executive Branch roles and avoid any delay in the enactment of his agenda.
https://americarenewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Brief_-On-the-Article-II-Recess-Appointments-Clause-1.pdf
In this case President Trump sounds like Steve McGarrett on the original ‘Hawaii 5-0’. Criminals would always want to cut a deal with him….before the word ‘deal’ was even out of their mouth, McGarrett would bark….’NO DEAL !!”….
Is there another way for recess appointments to go through?
Buckle up………..Short answer — yes — and it has to do with Congress adjourning.
Both chambers have to consent to adjourn for longer than three days. If one chamber agrees to adjourn and the other doesn’t, then the House and Senate are considered in a state of disagreement.
Cue the Constitution, which says: “in Case of Disagreement between [the House and Senate], with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, [the president] may adjourn them to such Time as he think proper.”
So a president could adjourn Congress if there is disagreement between the two chambers and use that as a way to ram his nominees through. It’s something Trump previously threatened to do during his first term.
“It’s not something that’s ever happened in American history.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/g-s1-34493/how-far-can-trump-go-to-get-his-nominees-confirmed
But if there were a disagreement between the Senate and the House on adjournment, could the president adjourn both houses and set a new time to convene? The answer to that is “yes.”
The Adjournment Clause actually was mentioned in the Noel Canning decision in discussions about the problems faced by a president whose nominations are stalled in the Senate.
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/can-the-president-adjourn-congress-and-make-appointments-without
All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans deserve whatever abuse Donald Trump wants to give their punk asses. And they deserve to get it good and hard. NO DEAL!!
If Musk does his job, the FBI will consist of the director, his secretary and a janitor. Should be pretty easy to control.
No janitor. They can do their own cleaning.
No Deal is better than Make Deal then Renounce.
There are ways to get Gaetz+ in without Senate approval. Let them sweat, get angry, react, make mistakes, and expose themselves.
Trump’s first 2 years might be a quasi lonely battle (without and against the Senate), but with his Team, the People, and many in the House on his side. Trump may want to leverage the power of the People this time.
In any case, these 4 years the People are in the Drivers seat. Let them make the demands and let the Senate know where their place is.
Probably already posted here – Stephen Miller’s comments on the appointment of a MAGA FBI Director –
https://x.com/AwkwardMamaNews/status/1859098810963947984
I’m good with the deal……as long as once Trump is in…one of the first things he does is do away with the FBI…..and ultimately firing Mike Rodgers which means not only would this RAT be put of the FBI…he would be put of a job in government! What better way to get this swamp creature out of the swamp!
The FBI has to be done away with…..there is no public trust in it at all. Most believe it’s nothing more than an agency quipped with protecting the establishment…..and what they do and are involved in behind the scenes.
It will be interesting to see…..exactly what or how much information Trump and team really have on the swamp, it’s members and their criminality over the years. What’s really interesting is the really big ugly which has to do with what’s been coming out lately. Who…what entities, even government agencies….including this extremely corrupt FBI we are speaking of….are involved…like unholywood……in all the trafficking!
That’s what the Epstein thing is……thats what the Diddy thing is……and they are all connected. And don’t think Diddy was able to what he was doing without FBI knowing what was going on….they knew! They probably even were the ones that set him up, protected him for years as long as they got what they wanted out of the deal. Like interesting figures being able to be used as sources….once you can leverage them….that means you need something on someone to be able to get them to do things they would not ordinarily do.
Like get all the celebrities to come out and back who you want for President….or else! Things will be leaked! (Hacked)
Nope on Mike Rogers. Completely decentralize the FBI to each of the state capitols, and close the DC office to a bare staff. No new building.
Go along with the deal and then fire home like Comey……..easy, peasy……….
All gas, no brake!
Always MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
until Trump fires Wray there is no need to nominate ANYONE for FBI … never agree to anything in public … get Gaetz thru then reneg on whatever backroom “deal” that was made … or go ahead and “nominate” Rogers … then have MAGA senators kill nomination … or just fire him 2 weeks after he is sworn in …
Why would Trump allow these McConnell clones to give him the terms of his cabinets? It’s Trump who won the mandate…not these corrupted politicians.
Never make a deal with the devil
Don’t do it!!!! How disgusting that they confirm all of the Democrats crazy lunatics but won’t confirm fellow republicans. Proof of the Uniparty! It is Uniparty vs MAGA!
How about just end the agency?
Is this the former NSA Chief, (Ret.) Admiral Mike Rogers who warned then President-elect Trump that Trump Tower was bugged back in 2016? (Most likely not. I just needed confirmation.)
The GOP is a feuding family. They are deeply divided with an understandable distrust of others within the party.
They fall in two camps, restoring America to its rightful place of excellence under the Constitution, or maintaining the destructive status quo establishment, tearing the country down for personal gain, money, power, and influence.
What does a family do? Cut the toxic members out. It’s hard but it must be done to restore a healthy environment.