As Americans brace themselves for Trump 2.0, it's time to be clear-eyed about the Maga machine: a history of alleged sexual criminality isn't a bug, it's a central part of the hardware; an organizing principle that clarifies how Trump and those like him view their power and how they intend to wield it.
Trump's first choice for attorney general, the former representative Matt Gaetz, was concurrently under investigation by the Department of Justice and the House ethics committee for allegedly violating federal sex-trafficking laws and statutory rape.
Four of president-elect Trump's cabinet-level nominees have faced serious allegations of sexual misconduct, ranging from workplace sexual harassment to assault, and a fifth is embroiled in a sexual abuse-related lawsuit.
Gaetz's withdrawal provided a brief moment of relief. But, still, Trump's would-be cabinet is filled with alleged criminals, all of whom the president-elect has vociferously defended, and all of whom deny wrongdoing.
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