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Christopher Rufo, the U.S. Secretary of Education, watched the hearing with delight. It was early November 2025, almost exactly a year since Donald Trump had won his second term to the White House. Already, the nation had changed under his watch, with todays hearing on educational indoctrination only the latest evidence of the transformation at work.
Michelle Obama had not been president of Harvard University for six months, and if this grilling before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions stayed on track (and it would, because the staff of each Republican senator on the committee had been coached by White House director of legislative affairs Madison Cawthorn on which questions to ask, when, and how; the afternoon producers on Fox News had been similarly prepped), she was going to make her predecessor Claudine Gay look like a long-termer.
It was delicious stuff, watching the former first lady squirm. Having already landed a couple of haymakers during the first round of questioning, the committees chairman, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. VancePresident Trumps favorite bulldog on Capitol Hill and already a 2028 presidential favoritewas now launching a stemwinder about rooting out the cancer of wokeness. Fox News turned its camera on Michelle, who looked as if she might kill Vanceor, if this continued, herself.
Secretary Rufo muted the television and rose. He was still getting used to his office, a plain room in a concrete building on Maryland Avenue, nothing like the sumptuous quarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue that Attorney General Laura Ingraham crowed about every time he saw her in one of the Old Ebbitt Grill back rooms, drinking what she claimed was a club soda, gossiping with special assistant to the president Chaya Raichikbetter known as Libs of TikTokabout the latest West Wing intrigue. She really needed to get her ass in gear, Rufo thought. There was no time to waste. President Trumps second term was flying by, and even if he managed to extend that term by a year or twoWhite House counsel Kimberly Guilfoyle was just polishing up her memorandum on how to postpone the 2028 electionthere was too much work left for foot-dragging.
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Trump's Cabinet of Horrors (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 14
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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)1. Some of the gang members
Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)2. The horror... the horror....