President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Representative Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general.
Robert Draper, who covers domestic politics for The Times, discusses what the nomination reveals about Mr. Trump’s promise for retribution and how far Republicans might be willing to go to help him get it.
Guest: Robert Draper (https://www.nytimes.com/by/robert-draper) , who covers domestic politics for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The attorney general pick has set a new bar for in-your-face nominations (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/matt-gaetz.html) .
• A vendetta over the congressional ethics investigation into Mr. Gaetz (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/gaetz-mccarthy-johnson-ethics-report.html) helped sink the last speaker. The new speaker has moved to quash the report.
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Here is where this applies very well. Don’t do unto others what you wouldn’t like to be done to you. and now that justice is about to reign supreme against what they have done, they fear. their reverse psychology with these kinds of accusations will not work.
Turns out this hit piece on Gaetz actually convinced Megyn Kelly of how great of a choice Gaetz is! Hilarious! Great work, NYTP!
Yes, so he can become a Florida Senator. 5-D Chess. Trump trolls the media big time.
in a stunning nod to honesty(WUT?!) gaetz admits to “reading” the writing on the wall and retracts his nonimation( you like?) for AG….
He gone.