Matt Gaetz is out
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Anonymous
What smear? He was clearly not qualified. |
Anonymous
Spare us your faux outrage. You voted for a convicted felon who was also convicted of sexual abuse. You are as despicable as trump and Gaetz! |
Anonymous
Exactly. The next nominee will be a competently corrupt dirtbag. |
Anonymous
| If MAGA voters want men like this in charge of our country, then prove it and hire him to work in your home since he no longer has a day job. |
Anonymous
No, it was a factor but even if the report had "exonerated" him there would have been strong opposition. The reason Senators oppose him is not the belief he paid a 17 year old for sex (though that, if true, does make it politically harder even for people who want to rubber stamp all of Trump's appointees to support him). If the report was released and it said definitively that Gaetz had not has sex with a 17 year old, had not paid for sex, and had not done illegal drugs, there are still 4-8 Republican Senators who would be struggling on whether they could vote for him. They can lose three. Likely Collins, Murkowski, and Thillis were hard nos. He needed everyone else to fall in line and I think it's highly unlikely that would have happened. Also the more the recess appointment option is discussed the less likely it becomes, at least for any of the constitutional cabinet noms. Again you need all the Republicans (in both houses) to agree to that plan and you have a bunch of people who are hard nos on that. Even people who might have voted for Gaetz! Like Mitch McConnell is strongly opposed to recess appointments for these roles. Thune said he was open to it but when it became clear that Trump thought he could use it for stuff like AG and DoD, he rapidly cooled because it takes away so much of his power and authority right after being elected as leader. And lots of opposition in the House from reps from purple or blue districts who have to run in 2026 with no guarantees. Gaetz becoming AG probably never had more than like a 10-15% change of working. That's how bad the pick was. |
Anonymous
| The fkking drama and chaos already is a prerequisite of the next 2 years. Midterm magic will prevail. Hegseth settled Jane Doe assault. Elon Musk whipped out his junk at a space x flight attendant. JD + Thiel=🖤 It’ll be exposed. Then, there’s the Grand Puba of sexual assaults. Maga loves the depraved. |
Anonymous
| So he wins in the end looks like? Or does the report still old weight on his "new" term? |
Anonymous
| This was widely expected. |
Anonymous
Yes and no. If it's someone like Andrew Bailey (AG for Missouri) then yes of course we will still see a lot of policy I oppose out of that DoJ. But Bailey is absolutely qualified and I think far less likely than Gaetz to just do Trump's bidding if Trump orders something patently illegal or unconstitutional. A qualified nominee will be someone who has actual experience as a prosecutor and is a real lawyer. Even if you find the most conservative, MAGA person you can, a person with those qualifications will be at a minimum uncomfortable with something that is just against the constitution. This is what we saw with Trump's last administration. The lawyers at the white house and in DOJ, hired by Trump, actually did a lot to slow down or block his worst impulses simply because they couldn't sign off on stuff that takes the rule of law and just rips it up. Only a fake lawyer like Gaetz who never really practiced and clearly barely paid attention in law school and is also blocked from actually caring about law by his own ego would be okay with this stuff. Which Trump knows and is absolutely why he picked Gaetz. He will now be forced to pick a real lawyer and that person will suck but will at least be a real lawyer which is still a massive upgrade. |
Anonymous
The real story is probably that Trump is just crazy and no one wanted to tell him that Gaetz was a dead-end. I think Gaetz might have been using this as a way to avoid the release of the ethics report. Presumably he knew Trump would block the release of that report. Even though he's no longer the nominee, they're still not going to release it. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
His own resignation letter says he won’t do this though. |
Anonymous
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LOL is this 5D chess?
Gaetz gave up a shoo-in House seat and now ends up with nothing. |
Anonymous
I agree with this. He didn’t make any sense for AG, and I wonder what was going on behind the scenes. I had a feeling something like this would happen but you never can tell. Basically, a ploy to get him out of the way. Now the congressional records can be released and he will disappear. |
Anonymous
So Gaetz withdrew because a dirtbag couldn't get the support of republicans in the senate so an even worse dirtbag is going to get it? Gaetz and Hegswith needed to go. |