{"id":3123,"date":"2024-12-02T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-whistle-blower-report-puts-fresh-scrutiny-on-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:47:15","slug":"what-were-watching-whistle-blower-report-puts-fresh-scrutiny-on-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-whistle-blower-report-puts-fresh-scrutiny-on-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Whistle-blower report puts fresh scrutiny on Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canada\u2019s prime minister Justin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/01\/trudeau-trump-energy-trade-arctic-00192048\"><u>Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump<\/u><\/a> at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, just four days after the President-elect announced his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/25\/congress\/trumps-tariff-threat-00191615\"><u>impose 25 percent tariffs<\/u><\/a> on goods from Canada and Mexico. The two leaders shared a \u201cwide-ranging discussion,\u201d according to Trudeau\u2019s team.<\/li>\n<li>Trump threatened to impose a 100 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/trump-brics-tariff-trade-00192042\"><u>tariff on BRICS nations<\/u><\/a> if they attempt to abandon the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday evening, a move that Trump called &#8220;an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several cabinet nominees and appointees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/27\/congress\/threats-to-trump-cabinet-00191892\"><u>faced bomb threats<\/u><\/a> at their homes last Wednesday, including House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, HUD secretary nominee Scott Turner, Agriculture secretary nominee Brooke Rollins, and a relative of former Rep. Matt Gaetz. The FBI said it is working with law enforcement partners to look into the matter.<\/li>\n<li>Former staffers for HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/28\/rfk-hhs-management-doubts-00191852\"><u>questioned whether he is up for the job<\/u><\/a>, throwing doubt on his ability to be a manager. \u201cI have no idea how he\u2019s going to run a full department, if that\u2019s how he ran the campaign,\u201d one former campaign staffer said.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/pete-hegseths-secret-history?_sp=ddd11ed5-409c-49e5-840f-111f6da2917c.1733140916159\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker article on Pete Hegseth<\/a>, Trump&#8217;s pick for Defense secretary, details a whistle-blower report from his time at Concerned Veterans for America that is placing more scrutiny on the former Fox News host. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/trump-cabinet-picks-2025-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><u>latest Cabinet picks<\/u><\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The president-elect on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/trump-kash-patel-fbi-director-nomination-transition-00192046\"><u>picked Kash Patel<\/u><\/a>, former chief of staff to the secretary of Defense during Trump\u2019s first term, to lead the FBI. Patel is a loyal Trump supporter, previously calling for a purge of Trump\u2019s opponents from intelligence agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Real estate mogul Charles Kushner was chosen as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/trump-selects-charles-kushner-as-ambassador-to-france-00192043\"><u>ambassador to France<\/u><\/a> on Saturday. Kushner was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for 16 counts of tax evasion, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the FEC. He is also the father of Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law and former senior adviser to Trump during his first term.<\/li>\n<li>Massad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/01\/trump-massad-boulos-tiffany-in-law-00192055\"><u>Boulos was picked<\/u><\/a> Sunday to be Trump\u2019s senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos is a prominent Lebanese-American businessman as well as the father of Michael Boulos, Tiffany Trump\u2019s husband.<\/li>\n<li>Trump appointed former national security aide and retired Lt. Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/27\/congress\/ukraine-peace-envoy-donald-trump-00191928\"><u>Keith Kellogg as a special envoy<\/u><\/a> to Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday, tasking him with ending the Russia-Ukraine war.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching Canada\u2019s prime minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, just four days after the President-elect announced his decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. The two leaders shared a \u201cwide-ranging discussion,\u201d according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}