I Did Not Vote for Kamala Harris

Let me be clear. I marked by ballot for Kamala Harris. I was not a supporter. I did vote against Donald Trump. I believe many other people were of the same mind.

Now that Donald Trump has won my fears of what will happen to my country are becoming true.

Look at his appointments and you should be appalled. Following are four that should alarm everyone.

Attorney General: Matt Gaetz: Accused of sex with a minor. In 2020, he was accused of child sex trafficking and statutory rape. Following an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to pursue charges against him. Prior to his resignation as representative, Gaetz was also under ethics investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of underage sexual abuse, illegal drug use, sharing inappropriate images and videos on the House floor, misusing state identification records, converting campaign funds for personal use, and accepting impermissible gifts. Gaetz has denied all of the allegations.

Before being elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2010, he briefly served as an attorney with the Keefe, Anchors & Gordon law firm, reported the Pensacola News Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. He was shortly suspended from practicing law in 2021 due to unpaid fees in 2021 but was later reinstated.

Attorneys general usually have experience as federal prosecutors. During Trump’s first presidency, some top lawyers in his administration threatened to quit over his proposal to elevate someone without prosecutorial experience to attorney general, USA TODAY previously reported.

Defense Secretary: Pete Hegseth: The Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

Hegseth told radio host Hugh Hewitt in June that he believes roughly a third of the military’s most senior officers are “actively complicit” in the politicization of the US military. Speaking about his new book, Hegseth railed against what he described as “woke, CRT, DEI things, gender stuff” that has “seeped into” the military.

Just last week, he echoed much of the same complaints in an interview on a podcast hosted by Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL, saying one of the first actions the Trump administration should take is to fire the Joint Chiefs chairman.

“Well first of all you’ve got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and you’ve got to fire — I mean obviously you’ve got to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any general that was involved — general, admiral, whatever — that was involved in any of the DEI woke shit has got to go,” Hegseth said.

Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard: She has been accused of amplifying Russian propaganda and would come to the job having never worked in the intelligence world or served on a congressional intelligence committee.

Reported by NBC that she has been accused of amplifying Russian propaganda and would come to the job having never worked in the intelligence world or served on a congressional intelligence committee.

Health and Human Services: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Kennedy’s baseless claims have included that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain”; that school shootings are attributable to antidepressants; that chemicals in water can lead to children becoming transgender; and that AIDS may not be caused by HIV. He’s also long said that vaccines cause autism and fail to protect people from diseases. Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health fears if Kennedy is confirmed as HHS head, “thousands of children may die of measles and many other infectious diseases for which children have been vaccinated for many decades.” (Kennedy recently told NPR that he won’t “take vaccines away from anybody.”)

Unfortunately, a GOP controlled Senate that is supplicant to Trump, his selections will be approved.