PERRY: The Trump Show draws jeers with Gaetz of Hell and the Dud Kennedy acts

It would probably be a safe bet to say that if the presidential election were held this Tuesday, just days after Donald Trump announced the nightmare he’s nominating to run the country, Kamala Harris would be a shoo-in. 

Even my friends who are serious Trump supporters are freaked out about the freak show of deadbeats, dirtbags and dumb-sters scuttling out from the dark corners of the country to take their place on the Trump Administration Cabinet.

The choices are so alarming that it’s hard to find a place to start.

But let’s start with Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz as Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general.

I know. Me, too.

Don’t set aside the worrisome scandal about his involvement in sex trafficking and having sex with a 17-year-old, but understand this is where it comes from.

Gaetz has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl he was having sex with to travel with him.

Trump’s first attorney general, Bill Barr, focused an investigation on Gaetz’s friend and Republican political ally Joel Greenburg. Greenburg was sentenced in 2021 to 11 years in prison after being convicted of paying women and an underage girl to have sex with him and other men, according to Associated Press reports. The “other men” were not identified in court documents during the plea deal. 

Multiple news reports insist Greenberg fingered Gaetz as being involved in some of his crimes.

When no charges were brought against Gaetz, a House Ethics Committee, run by fellow Republicans, took up the scandal. That months-long investigation was scheduled to be released Friday, but Gaetz unexpectedly resigned his seat in the House immediately, just hours after Trump appointed him.

The odd move was made in a spurious attempt to prevent the Ethics Committee report from being issued. Republicans and Democrats both in the House and Senate are crying foul over that scheme.

And locally, even some of the most loyal Republicans and ardent Trump supporters are saying ‘oh hell no’ to putting Gaetz in charge of the Justice Department.

“Matt Gaetz is hands down the WORST nomination for the Trump cabinet,” said former GOP Chairperson Kristi Burton Brown, who staunchly stands with her party. “No guy credibly accused of the trafficking of minors and sex with teens should be anywhere near the Attorney General’s office or the DOJ — unless they’re arresting him.”

It clearly says just as much about Trump as it does about Gaetz. It’s a grotesque assault on the nation and the very idea of American rule of law and democracy.

The only fans of the creepy notion, besides Trump, are people like Jewish Space Laser whack job Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Colorado’s own carpetbagging, moon-howling, public fondler, Lauren “Space Aliens!” Boebert.

But wait, there’s more.

The Kennedy Clan’s own version of the Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis family feud show, “Grey’s Garden” with Little and Big Edie Bouvier Beale, now stars Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy’s claim to fame, before running for president against Harris and Trump, was as one of the nation’s loudest and most infamous anti-vaxxers.

Kennedy is both an exposed  prolific liar and a fraud.

He founded and funded the Children’s Health Defense, a dangerous anti-scientific movement that fraudulently linked childhood vaccinations to autism.

Despite that, he regularly, and even last week, claims that he’s not “anti-vax.”

He’s a dangerous lunatic.

In 2021, he said during a Louisiana legislative hearing that the COVID vaccines were the “deadliest” vaccines ever made.

Real science has repeatedly shown that to be unreservedly false.

Kennedy has also worked feverishly to lower America’s guard against selling unpasteurized milk. The science here is long, unchanging and unequivocal: It’s dangerous.

Raw milk can, and does, infect people with all kinds of serious and even deadly bacteria and viruses. It has long been proven, by real science, that raw milk is no more nutritious or has any added health benefits than does pasteurized milk.

Still, Kennedy has for years persisted in this and a wide range of assorted quackery.

He has long linked anti-depressants to mass shootings, another whacko conspiracy theory disproven by facts, data and science.

He infamously told New York Magazine last year that scientists gone bad conspired to falsify research in a scheme to wrongly show that AIDS is caused by HIV.

Yes, he really did.

Kennedy said science and industry conspired to cook up a cure and killed people doing it.

The sour cream de la creme of Kenedy’s serious sick-o-ness came in 2023 when he told the New York Post that there was scientific “evidence” that the COVID-19 virus was not only a man-made creation, but that it was engineered to target white and Black people.

“The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he said, during an interview that was videotaped, and you can see for yourself, because nobody would believe anyone could be that crazy, delusional or racist, unless you heard it for yourself.

Kennedy’s freaky claims about 5G cell phone networks controlling humans and ivermectin curing COVID — both utterly false — aren’t even included in his lengthy tenure of being dangerously deranged and a candidate for at least a 72-hour hold.

Kennedy’s nomination to this critical national job drew a collective American gasp from everyone, except Gov. Jared Polis. In what can be described only as some kind of political petit mal seizure, Polis charged out onto social media this week saying how “excited” he was to work with Kennedy on food safety. Lambasted by Republicans, fellow Democrats and the media, Polis has been walking back his enthusiasm since. I’m hoping for a complete recovery.

Kennedy and Gaetz are just two fake gems in the Trump White House of Horrors he’s rolling out every day. There’s the white supremecist-suspect Department of Defense chief, Pete Hegseth a TV-propaganda show host who said he never had forced sexual relations with that woman who accused him of sex assault and he paid off so he wouldn’t lose his job at Fox News.

And then there’s former Congressperson Tulsi Gabbard, another crack-pot provocateur who is nominated to be the chief of national intelligence, which is something clearly in short supply with the president-elect and his flowering administration.

Gabbard was seriously tabbed a traitor a couple years ago when she repeated and promoted Russian propaganda myths that the United States was running bio-warfare labs in the Ukraine.

These aren’t just the usual policy differences that aggravate most presidential political turnovers. This is criminal political malpractice. Trump, now deeply paranoid from his previous experience with a multitude of mutinous staffers, is choosing only the “best people” who won’t invoke the 25th Amendment before spring break.

It’s an outright attack against the nation, real conservatives and the former Republican Party. 

No sense any of us who told you so repeating that. Collectively, we need to ask ourselves every day the most important question of the 2024 election, “Did the price of potato chips go down yet?”

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