President-elect Donald Trump is taking a media break from being called a fascist or Nazi to the latest criticism of filling his cabinet positions with those not deemed to be “experts” by the self-proclaimed “expert class” of government.
Who defines “expert”? Simple: those deemed experts by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, or administrative class embeds. In other words, it is a circle-jerk of self-professed experts insisting they are the only true experts. Confirmation bias anyone?
Reuters bemoans Trump’s approach of going outside the “expert class”, who have gotten so much wrong over the years, instead favoring those with practical experience. “U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose loyalists with little experience for several key cabinet positions.”
A member of the defense “expert class.”
Let’s start with intelligence and Trump’s decision to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. As NBC News reports, almost 100 former national security officials signed a letter “urging the Senate to ‘carefully evaluate’ whether Gabbard is ‘equipped’ for the position, which requires Senate confirmation.”
Do you remember the last time a group of “security officials” or “experts” signed a letter? This occurred just before the 2020 election when the “expert class” sought to leverage their influence and credibility to interfere in a presidential election.
More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Yet the DOJ knew the laptop was real in early 2020, many months before the “experts” released their letter. This is the “expert class” in action.
Why is the expert class upset with Gabbard? Among other things, she’s anti-war, which is bad for business for the expert consultant class in Washington, but what they claim is that she had the gall to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017. So what? That was in her job description as a member of Congress. “She served on the House Armed Services Committee for all four terms from 2013 to 2021.”
Hellbound and Down 