MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Thursday on “Deadline” that President-elect Donald Trump is attempting to “destroy the U.S. government” with his picks to fill his administration’s cabinet.
Maddow said, “I think the idea of the authoritarian promise is that everything shrivels in government other than the will of the leader, right? So, you don’t necessarily put a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of you’re hoping for great things from HHS. Matt Gaetz, he has explicitly proposed abolishing the Justice Department, not specifically abolishing the FBI and the ATF but talking about abolishing the Justice Department.”
She added, “I mean, Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence is, I mean, the idea that Tulsi Gabbard, in a normal circumstance, could get a security clearance to be like a…