Do you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump naming an alleged wife beater as Labor Secretary?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Andrew Puzder, the St. Louis attorney who rose to become CEO of Carl's Jr. and now stands as Donald Trump's pick to be Secretary of Labor, was accused of abuse by his first wife in the 1980s — with police twice summoned to the couple's home.


The allegations were first aired in the couple's 1989 divorce. The abuse allegations in the divorce filings then became the subject of a July 26, 1989, Riverfront Times cover story.

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Puzder denied the abuse both in a deposition for his divorce and in the RFT's story, calling his ex-wife Lisa Henning's allegations "baseless."



http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/12/08/andrew-puzder-trump-pick-for-labor-department-was-accused-of-abusing-wife

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[CK_John]

2. Throw away all the books on politics, the new is everything goes.

POTUS can appoint and the Senate has a duty to advise and consent. It's their problem, that's what the voters want..

[TwilightZone]

3. That doesn't mean we can't disapprove of the selection.

As for what the voters want, half of them didn't vote for the guy.

[MadamPresident]

4. That's just vomit topping on the shit cake.

His anti-labor stance is the first and foremost problem.

[Lurks Often]

5. Per your link the wife is saying it never happened

and that she "impulsively filed for a divorce without your knowledge and was counseled then to file an allegation of abuse.".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Cui bono.

The timing of the "retraction" seems awfully convenient and Pudzker's offer to resign from his post at the time indicates consciousness of guilt.

[Lurks Often]

8. Never mind, go on believing every single bad thing the press says about Trump

Hmm, I seem to remember a lot of people here being angry that the Republicans believed every bad thing the press said about President Obama and the Clinton's.

[lagomorph777]

11. Do you think your RW talking points will ever get any traction here?

If so, that's one more symptom.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Did President Obama

Did President Obama appoint racists, anti-semites, conspiracy mongers, white nationalists, and xenophobes to his Cabinet?

I would have opposed em too...

[madokie]

6. I don't approve

of a fucking thing tRump does or will do or has done

[Quackers]

9. I wouldn't go that far.

I would approve of his decision to resign.

[madokie]

10. That ain't going to happen though

but I would approve of that, yes