Democrats and Trump detractors immediately decried the decision, citing the administration’s alleged hypocrisy surrounding merit-based hiring practices.
“MAGA opposes helping minorities but has no issue with nepotism when it benefits their own.
Many commenters believed that nepotism factored into Buckley’s appointment.
“Republicans: Affirmative action is bad!
We need a meritocracy!”
political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen wrote onX.
Buckley fielded other nepotism allegations before his political career even began.
“You know, the one who needed Hunter Biden’s recommendation letter to get into Georgetown.
So much for ‘meritocracy’ when they keep installing nepo babies.”
