‘Republican man’ mindset all over Trumps abuse of Bondi and Noem: analyst

Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick told an MS NOW panel that President Donald Trump has a habit of attacking the women in his administration, and his targeting is beginning to get noticed.Trump’s treatment of freshly-fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Department of Homeland security head Kristi Noem appears to share certain characteristics with a deep connection to the misogynist roots of MAGAFitzpatrick stated her case after a fellow panelist pointed out that Trump failed to fire other more incompetent department heads, including a secretary of defense who has pulled the U.S. into a catastrophic war and “a National Intelligence director who fails to show up to cabinet meetings.”“I think you’re making an excellent point, and this is a point that … so many … senior Republican men in the administration have made to me in recent days,” said Fitzpatrick, who then drew a comparison between the firing of Bondi and Trump’s former cabinet secretary Alex Acosta, who was let go for his association to convicted sex-trafficker and Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein.“… [T]rump fires people all the time. He loves to do it. But there’s two ways that he does it ,” said Fitzpatrick. “When Alex Acosta leaves, he is paraded out onto the White House lawn. He is defended. And then what happened to Pam Bondi this week was so cruel and so unnecessarily painful. … I think you do see this element of women in the Trump administration being treated differently, and their efforts to go out and be what Trump wants — a fighter — and … perform strength ultimately for women [gets] perceived as weakness. And I think that’s a major factor here.”Bondi’s humiliation, said Fitzpatrick, was very telling. Plus, it was clear that members of the administration were wary of Trump mostly targeting women.“My reporting suggests, … because there was a concern about the optics, if they only took out the attractive women — this is what multiple people said to me — attractive women, and they’re not getting rid of any men, perhaps that could be a problem. So, ‘we should hold on a little bit longer.’” – YouTube youtu.be

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