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[quote=Anonymous]Gotta say - per this Bulwark reporting, Trump told Gaetz he didn't have the votes. And I didn't think Trump actually understood government well enough to know what that means - or that he understood his own limitations enough to know what that means.

I guess he did learn something other than how to steal classified documents last time he was in the WH.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/you-dont-have-votes-trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=151993295&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=4jbot&triedRedirect=true

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Eight days after making the snap decision to nominate Matt Gaetz to be the nation’s next attorney general, Trump phoned him Thursday morning to tell him he wouldn’t get confirmed, according to a source briefed on the conversation. The president-elect explained that Republican senators were too troubled by the sex scandals and investigations surrounding Gaetz and that the constant and salacious distractions had doomed him.

“You don’t have the votes,” Trump said, according to the source. “These senators aren’t moving.”

Another source familiar with the conversation between Trump and Gaetz said Gaetz had acknowledged he had between four and six Republican votes against him. He could only lose three.

“The writing was on the wall. Gaetz fell on his sword,” the source said, calling the decision a mutually understood acceptance of political reality.[/quote][/quote]

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