George Soros and Randi Weingarten Join Team Trump
Well, I have bad news.
Donald Trump has picked a George Soros employee to be Treasury Secretary.
Is this draining the swamp?
Scott Bessent spent years working as George Soros’s right hand at Soros Investments. Trump now wants him to be Treasury Secretary.
If that’s not bad enough, he’s picked Rep. Chavez-Deremer of Oregon to be his Labor Secretary. This lady not only supports Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers who, by the way, is praising the pick, but Chavez-Deremer also supports the PRO Act, which would force right-to-work states to unionize.
But wait, there’s more. The National Education Association is also supporting Chavez-Deremer because she opposes school choice and cuts to the Department of Education.
If I wanted George Soros and Randi Weingarten to be cheering on the presidential administration, I’d have voted for Kamala Harris.
Who the hell is advising Trump on these picks? The Labor Secretary literally supports Democrat legislation that would expand public sector unions and give them both collective bargaining rights and the right to strike against governments.
This is insane. It is also not draining the swamp.
The upside on Bessent is that he is an aggressive opponent of tariffs, Trump’s signature plan.
Can someone tell me how many levels of chess Trump is playing with now?
Ron DeSantis would have been so much more stable
Relax, Erick. Trump is a businessman, not a politician. Business and politics are completely different enterprises. Yet here we have a businessman as president. You could say that his first term was his apprenticeship. Now he knows how government works, but (unlike most government workers including many presidents) he also still knows how business works.
It is rare for a business to hire a person (other than their legislative liaison) based on their politics. It is an assumption that even George Soros's right hand man would share his political views.
As far as the labor secretary, we don't know why he chose her, but I also think it is a mistake to make assumptions at this point. We know that Trump is no fan of unions.
One thing we know for sure about Trump is that he is a disrupter. He seems to thrive on chaos. Maybe he is deliberately hiring "a team of rivals."
Rather than jump to a political conclusion, it might make more sense to try to explore his mix of business/political reasons for his particular choices. At least, it's too early to panic. Remember the alternative.
P.S. Up until about 18 months ago, I was a liberal, Democrat voter. But when I realized what the progressive agenda was, it was pretty easy to turn to a conservative, Republican voter. And when I saw what Kamala Harris was, I began to warm toward Trump. I may be sorry in the end. But for now, I say let him do what we elected him to do.