Emerald Robinson
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jul
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I mean, I could think, I could probably think of 10 just sitting here right here, right. Fantastic doctors that can fill that role. I don't feel like we have to settle.
Well, I put out a list of transition grades on X a little over a month ago, and Dr. Bhattacharya is one who got an A from me, and that was an easy grade. I've interviewed him a couple of times. I've had the pleasure of interviewing since I started my frank speech. show the absolute truth.
But when I was a White House reporter in 2020 in the Great Barrington Declaration, it was something I referenced. I referenced his work. Like Naomi said, though I didn't know him personally, I was impressed with his obvious great character. It is kind of shocking. I guess I've gotten a bit jaded, I'll be honest, having covered Congress and the White House for as many years as I have.
And so seeing someone who was treated so terribly and get, as you call it, poetic justice. When I give other people bad grades, I look at someone like Dr. Bhattacharya getting this nomination and it gives me hope. So he's a great one. A, maybe even A plus. I didn't give anyone A pluses, so.
Hey, I mean, look, he's been solid on vaccines, medical freedom, accountability in other areas, fighting corporate and government corruption, whatever his liabilities are. He has no liabilities on his track records there. Right. Here's what I was. So he gets a grade A from me.
Now, as far as his confirmation process, there's going to be a lot of broken hearts and you're going to see a major divide if they don't confirm him. And I think Republicans will actually face a major amount of backlash from the voting public.
How much they care about that, though, you and I and Naomi, we all know that isn't that's never the top factor for them is how much backlash they get from the public because they are going to get a lot of backlash from their donors and their lobbyists. Right. Which is big pharma. My concern is that they might not be doing enough from the official Trump transition to help get him confirmed.
There's some mixed messaging on that. Now, I know there are some good folks on transition who specifically wanted to help Pete Hexheth get confirmed, want to help him get confirmed for defense because they feel like if they take out Hexheth, it makes it easier for them to take out Trump. take out RFK. So you see the slippery slope that could be. So they want to help RFK as well.
So these are really good people. I think he will probably ultimately sneak through, but this will be a big blow to probably what is now, right, the biggest lobby in D.C., So it's going to be tough. But should he get in, he definitely gets an A from me.
But I'm also watching the staffing down the hierarchy because what they might try to do, Dr. Drury, and something that Naomi and I have talked a lot about is that they'll put him in, but they will hamper him and tie his hands so badly with people below him that won't go with his vision, his agenda, or really what the mandate is for him to do.
Um, so I'm, I'm also watching that, but he gets an a, we'll see what the staff below him. I wouldn't have probably equal grades.
I have these conversations behind the scenes all the time, especially because I'm surrounded by politicos where I live and they're already talking about twenty twenty eight. Twenty twenty four is over and now they're looking to the next campaign and they feel like that could be a real divide. Right. Because this coalition did pull Donald Trump over. There's lots of things.
And, you know, we're not talking about election integrity at the moment, but. Still, it couldn't have happened without the Maha Maga coalition. If you take Vance, who is a star now on the MAGA side, and you put him up against Bobby Kennedy, you're splitting that. So, you know, you're not actually RFK. Should he be confirmed? He has a better opportunity to shine than does J.D.
Vance really as vice president. How much do vice presidents really get? Maybe J.D. Vance will a little bit if Trump wants him to be his heir apparent. But this can be far beneficial for Bobby Kennedy. If he really gets confirmed and he's really able to do what he wants to do, then he might be the obvious 2028. But will that affect their working relationship? I don't know. Maybe. Interesting.
Yeah, I had a hard time on grading him. I would say, you know, probably a B. Yeah. You know, I think that it's great that he was a soldier. He doesn't come out of that military elite that is in Washington, D.C., that is very, very different from your average soldier on the ground. I think he has a real connection.
He has a real deep affection for his fellow service members, his veteran, his fellow veterans. He has worked in Veterans Affairs. The issue that Pete is going to have is not knowing bureaucracy and running a large... I mean, the DOD is a huge department. He's going to have to have really good people under him as well.
And there's been a bit of a fight and transition in getting good people in outside. And they've been so focused on getting Pete confirmed that they haven't gotten to really focus as much on... on the people who would support him. And the DOD is just filled, especially after this Biden administration, with people who will be subversive, especially as he tries to, he's more of a cultural warrior.
And I think that's great. I think that's probably really good for this moment. Look at what has happened to our military and Department of Defense under the Biden administration as they focused on DEI, right, and identity politics. Recruitment has nosedived.
um our military readiness and with the vaccines i mean our military readiness is at a level that we actually have to be seriously concerned um so i think that he can be good in those avenues we just need him to have the right support under him um and then i did know that confirmation wise this was going to come up when they announced him these these these stories and these issues um
But it sounds like they have it under control that. And I will tell you, it wasn't the Trump transition that stepped in. It wasn't the official. It wasn't Susie Wiles and those, you know, who should be helping him get confirmed that are making sure he got confirmed. There was other people who have helped him navigate this.
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