Republican Cronyism - Appointing Loyalists Over More Qualified Candidates

Nominated conspiracy theorist and far-right podcaster Dan Bongino to be second in command at the FBI despite his scant qualifications for the powerful job other than being a Trump sycophant since the early days of his political career

Had an affair with a woman and then paid her $7,400 for part-time work at his local district office that she never showed up for and only stopped paying her after his fiancée found out

Used his local connections to get a taxpayer funded job in a local town village for his fiancée and a job with the local sanitation department for her son

Had a yearslong extramarital affair with a woman who worked for a Republican state senator and was able to keep it secret by using a fake Uber account to rendezvous with her and then facilitated her transfer to a job working for a wealthy business executive and donor he was criminally involved with

Had his parents pay his close friend and his friend's wife who he had an affair with $96,000 to keep them both quiet and used his influence to get his friend a corporate lobbying job, all of which resulted in him eventually resigning from the senate