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It Could Happen Here

Trump's Cabinet of Curiosities

It Could Happen Here

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Garrison, Sophie, and James discuss Trump’s new cabinet appointees and potential members of the White House administration.

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0:31.7

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0:34.9

Welcome to It Could Happen here.

0:37.4

Oh, God.

0:38.0

We have survived another week.

0:40.2

And I'm joined today by Sophie and James to discuss Trump's cabinet picks and the upcoming potential members of the Trump administration 2.0.

0:52.0

I'm sure some of you have been following the news and there is some wacky picks in there.

0:56.3

There keeps being even more wacky ones like RFK, which I didn't even have time to include,

1:02.2

because by the time he was announced, I basically already wrote too much.

1:06.0

RFK will get his own future episode, but it's pretty safe to assume that RFK in control of health and

1:13.2

human services is pretty bad. You don't say. You don't say. People are saying it. Not great to have

1:21.4

the world's weirdest conspiracy theorist of the Kennedy family in charge of like you know, like vaccines and health mandates. And

1:28.7

it's going to be bad. Bad enough that it's, that it's its own episode. For the rest of the

1:33.3

nominations, mostly like last week, right? This is going to be covering all the nominations

1:37.5

in the week of the 11th to the 15th of November. We're going to kind of go through nomination

1:42.9

by nomination and do a brief overview

1:45.1

of each of these guys and why each one could be bad. And some of them just kind of point to

1:52.1

like more general like neocon picks as well. Trump kind of started off with some more ordinary

1:58.3

picks, honestly, like you know, like Mark Rubio, a secretary of state,

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