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John Fetterman Announces Which Trump Nominees He’ll Vote to Confirm

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On Fox News’ Bret Baier’s show, the Pennsylvania Democrat had reasonable takes on the issue of Greenland and the nominees of President-elect Donald J. Trump, which will likely anger liberals. Fetterman was a guest along with colleague Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).

First, he said that everyone needs to calm down about Greenland. He said acquiring it isn’t a nutty proposition, calling it a “reasonable conversation.” Of course, he doesn’t support seizing it by force but added that his party needs to “pace” themselves regarding Trump freakouts that will dominate the next four years.

As for Trump’s nominees, Fetterman announced who he was voting to confirm, and his reasoning was straightforward (via RealClearPolitics):

BRET BAIER: Oh, Sean Duffy. Senator Warner, the chair of the… co-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, met with Tulsi Gabbard.

He said he had a session with Ms. Gabbard, he went on with a lot of questions, he’s still got a lot of questions, and that we have to do a process, a beginning of a process, suggesting that there’s a long way to go. Is this, Tulsi Gabbard, one of the nominees that you could vote for?

JOHN FETTERMAN: Well, you know, I met with her, in fact I think I’ve met with virtually all of them, and the ones that I haven’t, they’re on my schedule, RFK and Governor Noem, so I’m happy to meet with all of them. And that’s also part of this, I don’t know why that was controversial. I mean, I got a lot of blowback just, you know, even to meet with them, and to me, I see that as just doing my job, and I’m going to have a conversation with anyone that would like to have a conversation with me.

And if someone believed everything that’s been written or said about me was true, I mean, you can’t possibly know me, or I think I could know her either, just based on someone read, but I’m going to sit down and have a conversation, and I’m really glad that I’ve done that, and some of these nominees I’m going to vote for already. In fact, you know, whether it’s our colleague Rubio, Representative Stefanik, or even Sean Duffy, and I expect to vote for him as well too, and Brooke Rollins for agriculture, again. So there’s a lot of them, I can say right now here on FOX, I’m going to vote for them.

But then there’s others, you know, that we’re going to go through the process, but I’m open to hear from everyone, and I don’t know why that’s controversial, and I also would like to remind everyone on the Democratic side, that’s the way democracy works. Trump won, and now they’re going to run the table, and so they get to pick those kinds of people, and if you don’t have to agree with all of it, but I want to find a way to work together on a bunch of them.

Also, the House passed the Laken Riley Act 264-159, requiring federal immigration officers to detain any illegal alien guilty of a theft-related crime. It’s named after the nursing student who was brutally murdered in Georgia last February. Forty-eight Democrats broke ranks to support the legislation. As it heads to the Senate, Fetterman, who is already a co-sponsor, added that if several members of the Democratic Party can’t support this bill, it presents another reason why his side lost in November:

 

Yes, he also supports a legal path for Dreamers, but he’s a Democrat. For most of this interview, Fetterman was reasonable which is lacking among Democrats as of late.

 

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By Trent Walker

Trent Walker has over ten years experience as an undercover reporter, focusing on politics, corruption, crime, and deep state exposés.

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