Posted on 11/20/2024 6:44:58 AM PST by Twotone
President-elect Donald Trump is personally making moves to shore up support for one of his more controversial Cabinet nominations: former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general.
Trump is reportedly calling Republican senators to discuss Gaetz and ask for their support. At least three Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Susan Collins (R-ME), have publicly expressed concern about the nomination and have not said if they would confirm him. With the Senate likely having a three-seat Republican majority, Trump would need them on board.
“[Trump] clearly wants Matt Gaetz,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who received a call from Trump, told Axios, which reported the phone calls. “He believes Matt Gaetz is the one person who will have the fearlessness and ferociousness, really, to do what needs doing at the Department of Justice.”
Gaetz has also been calling Senate Republicans. Five Republican senators told the Washington Examiner they have received a call from Gaetz since being nominated last week.
“Oh, I think Congressman Gaetz has reached out to everybody,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I mean, it would be malpractice for anybody in the White House to advise anything but ‘call every member on the R side.’”
Some of Gaetz’s past behavior, including being federally investigated for sex trafficking and a House Ethics Committee investigation into alleged sexual relations with underage girls and illicit drug use, have some senators hesitant to support Gaetz.
Many Senate Republicans believe the House Ethics report is essential to vetting him for the critical post, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he does not favor the release of the report. He said releasing it would open “Pandora’s box.”
“Do I think a report, if it exists, should be released? And the answer is no because we have a rule on that,” Johnson said on Monday at the Capitol. There have been two other instances in recent years in which members who resigned from Congress had their own ethics investigations released after their resignation.
The top Democrat on the Ethics Committee, Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), told reporters that “everybody on the committee now has the report, so they’ve got the opportunity to be reviewing it.” Johnson, however, told CNN on Sunday that the report is “not finished” and is only in “rough draft form.”
“There is plenty of precedence in the Ethics Committee to disclose the report even after a member has resigned,” Wild said.
Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing, but lawyers representing the alleged victims have said in recent days that at least two women testified to the committee that Gaetz paid them for sex.
Elon Musk, who has not left Trump’s side since the election two weeks ago, posted on social media that he views the allegations as “worth less than nothing.” Trump has shown no sign of withdrawing the nomination, which he views as crucial to the goals of his administration.
It’s unlikely that any Senate Democrats would grow favorable to Gaetz enough to vote on his confirmation. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Gaetz is the “least qualified person and most radical person ever nominated to be Attorney General.”
The “Me Too” sexual deviant herd is on the move. The gold diggers’ dreams have now begun coming true. Lying bastards are out to see how much money they can reel in.
Illicit drug use? Bill Clinton admitted to smoking weed long before it was even thought of being legalized. Not to mention every Democrat in the 2004 primary except Al Sharpton.
The People voted for Trump, not the feckless GOP. The GOP confirms, or the GOP dies.
The following is a less impressive presentation by Glenn Beck, but there is additional information that I had not known. Start at about the 15:20 minute mark:
So I'm guessing here that the 'lawyers' also submitted some kind of affidavits that his 'clients' weren't professional WHORES or something?
I don't give a rat's patootie what these two women claim. If Gaetz wasn't 'convicted/sanctioned' by the House because of the 'claims,' then case over. Give Trump his nominee. We need that bulldog badly
There is nothing new here. Beck rambles on for ever, but does not reveal anything we already did not know.
Cornyn won’t approve until Harry Reid gives him permission
I also agree that the presentation by Beck was abysmally conceived. You do not treat a serious accusation with such inane frivolity.
Yes we have all heard these also, but people forget. So it never hurts to refresh their memories in order for them to speak knowledgably with others regarding the truth about Matt Gaetz.
What trio of RINOs are you speaking of? I had posted two videos that spoke of the Matt Gaetz controversy that people want to make an issue of him for confirmation as AG, which is ludicrous. They are videos I used to argue with some friends who raised objections to Gaetz, and I told them they were full of it.
For cryin’ out loud...when will the GOP bounce these three “NOT Republican” a-holes out of the party and seriously work to replace them? I can’t remember a time when these three weren’t on the right side of a Republican issue that matters. Always playing the obstructionist.
For cryin’ out loud...when will the GOP bounce these three “NOT Republican” a-holes out of the party and seriously work to replace them? I can’t remember a time when these three weren’t on the right side of a Republican issue that matters. Always playing the obstructionist.
They all want something
Trump called to find out what.
The rest is window dressing
At least three Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Susan Collins (R-ME)
To be honest, I didn't even read the post,, I knew it was it was about Matt Gaetz, so I posted the videos I found about the issue that these three apparently have issues with him, which means they are full of it also, but I really had not read the post. 🤣
somewhat annoying FR so often has links whose purpose is viewcount and not information
Let’s do something avant garde:
Below are Democrat Senators who will at least listen to the Gaetz hearings, mostly because their state is not secure:
Shaheen NH
Warner VA both up in 2026
Collins is not a default NO. She was under enormous pressure to say NO to Kavanaugh and she refused, voting to confirm him. It was an election year, for her, too, in a blue state.
Gaetz has good odds.
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