Besides being unqualified for their jobs, some members of President-elect Donald Trump’s emerging administration have something else in common: they’ve been accused of domestic violence (including Trump).
(Trump’s) first appointment was Stephen Bannon, the founder of white supremacist platform Breitbart, as his senior counsel.
Mr. Bannon was charged in February 1996 with domestic violence, battery and trying to dissuade a victim - his wife - from reporting a crime, but the case was dropped when she did not turn up to court. She later testified that she had been ordered by Mr Bannon to leave town.
Second, there is Andy Puzder, appointed this week as labor secretary.
(He) was also accused of domestic abuse by his first wife in the 1980s, as reported by the Riverfront Times, and police were twice called to their house. Mr Puzder denied allegations of abuse, to the Times and to the St Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989.
Mr. Puzder, who is against the minimum wage, paid sick leave and overtime pay, has made no secret of the fact that he prefers advertising strategies that feature semi-clothed women.
And then there is the president-elect himself. Trump’s first wife, Ivanka, accused him of raping her while they were married.
He denied it, and Ms. Trump later retracted the allegation and said the rape was “not in the criminal sense”.
Well, it’s criminal in every other sense.