Psaki: ‘Without the Free Press, We Wouldn’t Know About Gaetz’s Venmo Payments, Hegseth’s Police Report... ‘

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PSAKI: “Trump is clearly not going to do his due diligence and he’s not going to ask the questions, he's not going to require the vetting or the FBI background checks. So if he won’t do those things, journalists have to. Without a free press, we wouldn’t know about Gaetz’s Venmo pages, Hegseth’s police report, or Gabbard’s time on a government watch list. Because of the free press, we learned a whole lot about these people that we didn’t know even one week ago. Here’s the important part: there’s still a lot that we don’t know, and that is kind of the other takeaway for me from this week. Matt Gaetz dropping out does not mean Trump’s next choice for attorney general deserves less scrutiny. It does not mean Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard deserve less scrutiny. It doesn’t mean anyone should stop the questions, stop the digging and stop the pressure. It actually means the opposite, because the stakes are so high and there’s still so much we don’t know about these other cabinet choices. So we need to keep asking the questions, and that goes for reporters, members of Congress, their staff, citizens, all of you sitting at home.”