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Rep. Jasmine Crockett highlighted the stunning hypocrisy of Republicans criticizing DEI while President-elect Donald Trump uses his "good old boy system" to fill his cabinet positions.
On Wednesday (November 13), Crockett broke down the hypocrisy during an appearance on CNN, which came after Trump announced he was nominating former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) for attorney general.
“I mean, we are just in unchartered territory. But if anybody is surprised, then I say you haven’t been paying attention,” Crockett said Wednesday. “Because the reality is that we have someone that is not qualified, morally or otherwise, to be president of the United States. So why would his appointments be qualified?”
“These are people that have railed against diversity, equity, inclusion, trying to say that diverse candidates are somehow not qualified,” she continued. “But the reality is that what they want to do is more of this, is put people that are not qualified in and say, ‘Well, you know what? Because he’s my homeboy, he is qualified.’ That’s not enough. That is what the ‘good old boy system’ has always been about, and it’s why we have not ever reached our maximum potential.”
Conservatives have tried to use DEI as an insult to label qualified Black people as undeserving of their accomplishments. Republicans previously criticized Vice President Kamala Harris as a "DEI hire."
Trump's cabinet picks have come under fire for their lack of experience in roles. Thus far, Trump tapped Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who lacks formal intelligence experience, as director of national intelligence.
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