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Are Trump's appointees, the Trojan horses that could lead to America's strategic collapse?

The main story of media is baffled.

Why would Trump promote candidates to oversee critical agencies with millions of employees in multi-billion dollar budgets who have little to know management experience and have openly

expressed hostility toward the institutions they'll oversee.

I've seen a legendary reporter Bob Woodward, who wrote several books about Trump on three

different TV shows this week, asking to the effect of, what would Trump possibly gain from these

incompetent appointments?

If he just wanted loyalty, there's no shortage of rational, competent members of the

military and intelligence community who are loyal to Trump. So why is he selecting people like

Hegseff, Gates, and Gabbard to run agencies that could directly involve confrontations with Russia?

Trump wants Gates for the job as our nation's top law enforcement

agency attorney general who oversees the FBI, where he could block the FBI from investigating

Trump's embrace of Putin and Russia's spying and disinformation efforts here in the United States.

Why? Well, Gates, after all, has called for Trump to defund, get rid of, and

abolish the FBI. He hates the agency that investigated and threatened to prosecute him.

Pete Hegeseth, who Trump wants to put in charge of our Department of Defense, is openly critical

of our NATO allies, saying they are self-righteous and important nations

asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense agreements they no longer live up to.

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