It took both Democrats and establishment RINOs a little time to process Donald Trump’s historic victory.
But now that they’ve had time to regroup, they’re hell-bent on destroying the incoming administration before it even takes office.
And the RINO establishment is freaking out over a Trump conspiracy theory they invented out of thin air.
RINO sabotage
Immediately after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, even Democrats were admitting that his historic victory was a clear mandate from the American people to enact the America First agenda.
With Trump winning 312 electoral votes, becoming the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades, and Republicans securing majorities in both the House and Senate, it’s difficult to argue otherwise.
But now that the fog of defeat has lifted, the ruling class elites in Washington, D.C. are working overtime to undermine and stop the incoming Trump administration.
Of course, the first crucial hurdle the establishment is planning to trip up Trump with is his cabinet appointments.
The President-elect has already announced many of his nominations just over two weeks out from his victory, and establishment RINOS in particular are losing their minds over several of his picks.
As such, the fact that Republicans’ Senate Majority sits at just 53 seats post-election has given Senate RINOs the opportunity to cause problems for the incoming Trump administration.
So it came as no surprise when the neocon, RINO establishment propaganda outlet known as National Review began pushing the conspiracy theory that Trump is planning to circumvent the Senate to force his cabinet nominations through recess appointments.
Of course, recess appointments are a perfectly Constitutional tool that every President has had at their disposal.
They’ll do anything to stop Trump
But that didn’t stop National Review editor Ed Whelan from pushing the idea that Trump would use recess appointments to further the ruling class propaganda narrative that Trump is somehow planning to be a “fascist dictator.”
“Hope it’s wrong, but I’m hearing through the grapevine about this bonkers plan: Trump would adjourn both Houses of Congress under Article II, section 3, and then recess-appoint his Cabinet,” Whelan wrote on X. “As predicate for Trump’s exercise of adjournment power, one House of Congress would seek other House’s consent to adjourn and be denied. So Speaker of the House would need to be complicit in evisceration of Senate’s advice-and-consent role.“
“House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to say NO to this right away,” he added.
Hope it’s wrong, but I’m hearing through the grapevine about this bonkers plan: Trump would adjourn both Houses of Congress under Article II, section 3, and then recess-appoint his Cabinet.
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) November 13, 2024
Obviously though, Whelan and other RINOs are pulling this theory out of thin air, and it’s extremely unlikely that Trump would use any recess appointment to get his cabinet nominees confirmed.
After all, if he does use recess appointments, they’d only stand until after the 2026 Midterms when a new session of the Senate begins, meaning that he’d likely lose appointments he forced through half way through his second and final term in office.
But with Trump nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, and Fox News’ Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, and others, there are plenty of Trump appointments who the establishment in both parties have merely deemed as “unacceptable,” even though many Americans voted for Trump because he could assemble such a team of outsiders to clean up Washington, D.C.
What’s clear is that despite voters giving Trump and Republicans a clear mandate, most RINOs are still determined to do everything they can to undermine the America First agenda.
Even if it means creating conspiracy theories out of thin air.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments to this ongoing story.
