Cornell Belcher: Trump Putting Forward Scandal Ridden Nominees Is About Loyalty, Not Policy

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BELCHER: “This is about, like a lot of reporting is showing, is who is going to be most loyal to Donald Trump. And I think for a lot of Americans, look, we’re going — you know, he won the election, but you’re also defined by the politics of this nomination battle. And I gotta tell you, if you go into a nomination battle with all these nominees who have, you know, let’s just say a lot of baggage and problems and scandal behind them, and it’s rolled out in these Senate hearings, you know, the initial perception of the Trump Administration will be defined by these scandals and this negative news. I mean, just step back not even being partisan, but, you know, I don’t think you’ve seen in the past where it would be a Republican president or a Democrat president try to force scandal-ridden nominees through this process because they understand that politically that hurts them, and it certainly is going to hurt the congressional members who have to ultimately vote for or against someone who has a lot of scandal around them."