Reading the news about United States president-elect Donald Trump’s picks for cabinet positions, one might wonder why so many of his choices include men accused of sexually abusing women and girls, such as Elon Musk, Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as a woman alleged to have enabled such abuse, Linda McMahon.
Even if accidental, choosing potential cabinet members who have sexual abuse allegations against them seems a strange coincidence, and apparently a bridge too far for more moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate in regards to Gaetz’s stymied candidacy.
The Florida congressman took himself out of consideration to become the next U.S. attorney general because he said the allegations against him involving underage girls were becoming “a distraction,” thought it was clear Republican senators were going to vote against Trump’s pick.
