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The left’s histrionics over President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees prompted a stark reminder about some of the current and former officials working in the Biden-Harris administration.

Following his decisive Election Day victory, Trump has garnered rapt attention from talking heads and supporters alike with a steady flow of staffing announcements to fill his second administration. From Elon Musk’s charge for government efficiency to tapping Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), every nomination has brought with it new cause to fearmonger.

As criticism over the Ivy League-educated Minnesota Army National Guard major for SecDef ran rampant because of his lengthy stint as a Fox News host, many were quick to bring up the scant qualifications for Biden cabinet members like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“The Democrats are melting down over Trump’s cabinet picks so far, but they had no problem with ‘Mayor Pete’ being appointed Secretary of Transportation with no prior qualifications,” Link Lauren, a commentator who previously served as senior adviser to Kennedy’s campaign, told Fox News Digital.

“Trump won the popular vote, the electoral college, the House and the Senate. That is a mandate from the American people that they want systemic change,” he continued. “I understand some of Trump’s appointees have garnered mixed reactions — even from Republicans. But let’s give Trump’s appointees a chance, then verify in time that they are doing a great job.”

Likewise, The Daily Signal’s Politics Editor Bradley Devlin told the outlet, “Take Secretary Buttigieg — his only qualifications for the job was a failed presidential campaign and time spent as a university-town mayor.”

“From East Palestine to electric chargers, it hasn’t gone well for ‘Mayor Pete,’ but Buttigieg has retained his job because he’s remained loyal to the Biden administration’s attempted radical energy and transportation policies,” the editor went on, bringing up only a few of the issues that had plagued the secretary who’d been chided for adopting a child and taking paternity leave amid a supply chain crisis.

Hardly the only character of note from the administration, others readily brought to mind included Sam Brinton, former deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy and alleged luggage thief; Tyler Cherry, a cross-dressing associate communications director at the White House, promoted from the Department of the Interior despite past remarks that American policing derived from “slave patrols;” and Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine, a gender ideologue once a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry who contends that he is a woman and that children should have access to chemical castrations and genital mutilation surgeries.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R) had readily produced a picture of Brinton and Levine when he’d been questioned about the nomination of now-former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) to serve as Attorney General.

Fox Business anchor Elizabeth MacDonald heaped on the criticism with a list of Biden nominees including HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, “not a doctor, he’s a lawyer;” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, “no energy background, Michigan Governor;” Council of Economic Advisors Chair Jared Bernstein, “not an economist, Bachelor’s degree in music, masters in sociology;” and “just for kicks…Bill Nye, the environmentalist ‘Science Guy’ — no background in environmentalism or science, he’s a mechanical engineer and comedy writer.”

“Liberals and progressives bemoaning these nominees’ alleged lack of qualifications are simply looking to protect the system they created — a government of, by and for the ‘experts’ — and that benefits them politically,” argued Devlin.

“This can be seen well beyond Biden’s cabinet picks, too. For example the first 10 Biden-appointed appellate judges averaged merely 14 authored opinions each from the bench. Trump’s first 12 appellate judges, meanwhile, had averaged 34 over a similar time period — twice as many as Biden’s nominees,” the editor noted.

Syndicated radio host Mark Levin commented on the continued behavior from the left to advance those with questionable backgrounds into positions of prominence as they had just tried to make Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz the vice president.

“Tampon Tim, the Democrat Party, and their media. The Democrat Party nominated and supported Tim Walz for vice president. I don’t want to hear from that party or its media that any of the Trump nominees are unqualified for their posts,” he wrote on X. “They have demonstrated that they have no standards at all when it comes to selecting even a vice-presidential candidate. Every Trump nominee has a solid record. Perspective is very important.”

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