Trump wants an attorney general who will exact revenge against his enemies. Gaetz has a reputation as a grudge-holding score settler.
Comb through just about any political nerd’s text chains in the last 48 hours and there is one profane piece of shorthand that likely appears repeatedly regardless of their political affiliation:That’s been the general reaction throughout the first full week since Donald Trump started to form a government-in-waiting poised to deliver on his promisedagenda. At first, the picks were novel, if garish. Sen.
There are almost too many reasons for why the prospect of Gaetz as the nation’s top law enforcement official has stunned a Washington that was already bracing for Trump to make some outside-the-box Cabinet picks. Beyond the MAGA faithful who adore his epic, Gaetz may be best known as the member of Congress who has spent years staring-down a secretive ethics panel probe into his own conductwhether Gaetz’s conduct violated any number of federal laws.
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