UPDATE: The plot thickens as CNN alleges Matt Gaetz’s pullout came just ahead of new revelations of even more sexual misconduct:
EXCLUSIVE: Gaetz withdrew from AG nomination 45 mins after we called to say we were going to report that “Ethics committee told there was a *second* sexual encounter between Gaetz and 17 year old in 2017.” w/@sarahnferris.” Full story: https://t.co/z244tATQIU
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCNN) November 21, 2024
As Tweeted by former Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz moments ago, the congressman best known for being investigated by the Justice Department for sex trafficking will not be the nation’s top law enforcement officer after all:
After abruptly resigning his seat in Congress to dodge the release of the Ethics Committee’s report into his conduct, Matt Gaetz is suddenly out of a job–at least for now, since it’s entirely possible Gaetz will get a job somewhere in the Trump administration that doesn’t require the Senate confirmation Gaetz appears to have been informed was hopelessly out of reach. We’ll update with reactions to this significant early loss for Trump from Gaetz’s close friend Rep. Lauren Boebert and others as they come in.
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That's one. Now we need to spike Hegseth, Gabbard, and the worm-infested Kennedy.
Pam Bondi (next in the Senate barrel for U.S. A.G.) can go with them. She was the A.G. in FL during the marriage equality battles. She was also one of Yammie-pie’s lawyers in the first impeachment. She was the A.G. that led the state appeals trying to scuttle the A.C.A, and her résumé just gets worse from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi
She is more qualified than Gaetz, but is a partisan hack. She'll get confirmed and DOJ will rot from the top. I've had communications with line AUSAs who are considering leaving, given who some USAs are likely to be. On the plus side, incompetence makes drug, labor, and sex trafficking easier to get away with. Yay, USA. Slow claps all around.
Heh-heh, you said "pullout."
If it wasn't so obscene, these puns and sexual innuendo would be funny. As it is, the guy is a pervert preying on young women. At least he won't be our top law enforcement official.
You just made me think of our old friend Voyager. Boy, do I miss that old cuss.
Aw, man! Gaetz was going to eliminate almost all crime(s)! The only thing left to prosecute was being a member of the Democratic Party! As for any other former illegal acts, he was going to take his lead from Trump and “Go Wild!”
Upon further review I’m not understanding why this is suddenly a problem for Republicans and Tram Trump/Project 2025/MAGAniancs? I mean, hell, this isn’t really “news,” they all knew including T-hump; and, anyway, isn’t this red-meat-red-blooded-alpha-manliness stuff exactly why the Dementiaed Mango selected Gaetz in the first place?
You can’t fix (Trump) stupid. True, Matt Gaetz’s appointment is delayed, but it’s still an eventuality down the road in this misadministration, and Gaetz’s proclivities will someday give new meaning to the term “
playgroundrecess appointment.”Next criminal at bat — Ken Paxton.
Thump’s America: The home of the free (felons).
Has anyone checked whether gaetz, epstein and sfb were ever in the same room at the same time?
Get him on a tax charge!
I want to know if he had an under-the-table (NO pun intended) nanny for whom he failed to pay taxes. How many Democratic appointments were cancelled due to stupid peccadillos (again, NO pun intended).
For that matter, did Gaetz pay taxes for the sexual favors he was purchasing?
I would've loved to have seen Kevin McCarthy's face when he read Matt Gaetz saying, "There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle…"
Lest we soon forget, in all our delight, just how much of a steaming turd filling in a platter of footlong turd sandwiches is House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republican House “Ethics” Committee???
They had the report(s) and they all knew the crimes.
(And, isn’t it interesting how that gang of christian Johnsons can work themselves into such a feverish lather over where a woman representative is and isn’t allowed to privately relieve herself, but couldn’t care any less about where a potential United States Attorney General has been publicly shitting his bed?)
Republican Messaging at work.
There were also the Proud Boy connections. One advantage of outrageous sex scandals is that the titillation serves as an effective distraction
And the replacement — former Florida AG Pam Bondi …
Let us begin a consideration of HER qualifications & commitment to justice versus her relationship to Trump & willingness to pursue "enemies."
Here's a short Bondi 101 kind of thing from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
I'm not sure it's realistically possible to make a worse pick than Gaetz, but she wouldn't be my choice for AG in the ideal world in which we no longer live. And I'm getting the sense that I might soon get sick of the word "fealty."
I posted a short recount of her bad lawyering up-thread with a link to her wiki page. She's a piece of work that one.
He resigned from the current Congress but was reelected to the upcoming Congress. Will he serve in that Congress and if so, will the Ethics investigation follow on?
Interesting questions … I don't think I saw the nuances of his resignation,
Fact Check said
I doubt Gaetz would be a candidate for the special election – that would almost certainly resuscitate the Ethics process.
If PAB doesn't find Gaetz no-Senate-confirmation-required position in the next administration, DeSantis can always send him to the Senate after Rubio gets confirmed as Secretary of State.