In news from Washington, D.C., recently resurfaced blog posts show Trump’s nominee for the Department of Agriculture’s top scientist, Sam Clovis, calling progressives “race traitors” and “liars” and calling President Obama a socialist supported by “criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States.” Clovis has also come under fire for lacking the credentials to be the Agriculture Department’s top scientist, given that he has no experience with agricultural research and denies the human impact on climate change.