Trump intends to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, surprising many lawmakers who will have to confirm them.

This is insanity and a slap in the face of our military forces.

As the country prepares for Trump’s return to the White House, intelligence officials past and present are bracing for a more specific threat: the president-elect’s revenge plot against “deep state” federal employees whom he views as “insufficiently loyal,”