Posted on 11/15/2024 4:45:16 AM PST by karpov
Donald Trump nominated Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.), an unqualified toady, to the nation’s top law-enforcement office. And, in the blink of an eye, Gaetz resigned from the House to, apparently, force the shutdown of an ethics investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, obstruction, and other unsavory conduct — misconduct allegations over which Gaetz narrowly escaped being indicted by the same Justice Department Trump would have him lead.
To be sure, Gaetz was not charged. He has denied any wrongdoing. And allegations, even colorable ones, are not evidence. Nevertheless, the standards of fitness for an office of high public trust — and it doesn’t get much higher than attorney general — are considerably loftier than whether one manages to evade criminal prosecution. This puzzling nomination should be swiftly rejected by the Senate for the most basic of reasons: Gaetz is unfit.
We understand President-elect Trump’s instincts here. During his first term in office, his own Justice Department failed to rein in Obama-era holdovers, mainly at the FBI, who publicly intimated that he was a clandestine agent of Russia based on bogus evidence supplied by Trump’s political opponents. The result was a two-year special counsel investigation that addled the administration, with many Trump officials forced to retain counsel at prohibitive expense — to say nothing of the anxiety. Then, once Trump left office after the tumult of the Capitol riot, the incumbent Democratic administration indicted him twice (while other Democratic state prosecutors piled on with criminal charges and financially ruinous civil suits).
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Now I am sure he is the right pick for AG.
CAUTION: What you are reading is 100% BS written by people who hate you and tried to murder your candidate.
We reject the Mational Review.
Yes. I hope that Trump has a plan to force them to approve him. That would be even better than a recess appointment.
Thank you, Irrational Review
How many Senators read that rag?
I cannot imagine higher praise than this kind of wrap up smear from NR. Get ‘em Gaetz.
bkmk
Just this man’s opinion
But I would consider Speaker of the House to be such a Office of Publiic Trust.
And yet Nancy Pelosi’s husband has been able to, without fail, been able to far out pace the market year after year by trading on insider information due to his wife’s position in government.
And yet she has never been so much as been investigated.
Not even by the House Ethics Committee.
> Donald Trump nominated Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.), an unqualified toady… <
Toady? I appreciate that the National Review decided to use such an unprofessional word in their very first sentence.
That way, I know not to bother to read any further.
(No disrespect meant to the original poster.)
From what I hear the plan is to show that senators who are against Matt Gaetz voted for Merrick Garland, the worst and most corrupt AG of all time. That is the Leverage that Trump can wield.
I cannot imagine higher praise than this kind of wrap up smear from NR. Get ‘em Gaetz.
that was easy
“We understand.”
You are the incompetent 3rd generation descendants of blue bloods who understand nothing, not even that your cozy little bubble doesn’t exist anymore.
So National Review is unwittingly endorsing Matt Gaetz?
Says the man who eats his soft boiled egg in the without dripping yoke down the side of the egg cup.
We know that and the more they attack Gaetz, the more we can know Trump made the right choice.
Unwittinglis the operative word for NR.
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