'Historic': Lawmaker calls Trump nominees' sexual misconduct allegations record-breaking
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested President-elect Donald Trump had made history by nominating the most people accused of sexual misconduct ever in a new administration.
During a panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile noted that Trump was trying to avoid FBI background checks for his nominees.
"But they will go through a background check," former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus interrupted.
"[Trump] has not signed the agreements," former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) pointed out. "He doesn't trust the FBI, so he doesn't want the FBI doing these background checks."
Host Jonathan Karl observed that Trump wanted to vet the FBI instead of having the FBI vet his nominees.
"If I had Robert, look, if I had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth with some of those background issues that they have, I wouldn't necessarily want the FBI looking around me either," Christie said.
"He doesn't want background checks and he's not decided to put people in that are qualified," Crockett argued. "This has to be a historic number of people that have been accused of sexual assault or some type of sexual misconduct in, in some way."
"But what is really frustrating that the American people need to pay attention to is the fact that if you are going to work in one of these agencies, you will have to be most likely vetted to a higher level than the person that's running that agency," she added.
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Crockett called that a problem.
"He's absolutely deciding that he wants loyalists," she said. "This is something that Project 2025 talked about."
"It was about putting the most loyal people into position," the lawmaker added. "It wasn't about making sure that you had the most qualified people in position."