Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following continued scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed as the nation’s chief federal law enforcement officer.The Florida Republican’s announcement came one day after meeting with senators in an effort to win their support for his confirmation to lead the Justice Department.“While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz said in a statement announcing his decision. “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.”Trump, in a social media post, said: “I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect. Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!”>https://apnews.com/article/gaetz-trump-fbi-justice-department-248b46ba0c882dd46d661568e8bd3bd7Thank god.
>>1363548 (Cont)Gaetz’s withdrawal is a blow to Trump’s push to install steadfast loyalists in his incoming administration and the first sign that Trump could face resistance from members of his own party to picks with eyebrow-raising backgrounds.Gaetz’s announcement came days after an attorney for two women said that his clients told House Ethics Committee investigators that Gaetz paid them for sex on multiple occasions beginning in 2017, when Gaetz was a Florida congressman. He resigned from the House after Trump announced he would nominate him for the Cabinet.One of the women testified she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old at a party in Florida in 2017, according to the attorney, Joel Leppard. Leppard has said that his client testified she didn’t think Gaetz knew the girl was underage, stopped their relationship when he found out and did not resume it until after she turned 18. The age of consent in Florida is 18.Gaetz has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and said last year that the Justice Department’s investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls had ended with no federal charges against him.OTHER SOURCES:>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/trump-ag-pick-matt-gaetz-says-hes-withdrawing.html>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/matt-gaetz-withdraws-bid-attorney-general-sexual-misconduct-allegation-rcna181206>https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/g-s1-35211/gaetz-out-attorney-general-trump
Trump will still make him Secretary of somethingorother. Maybe he can take Pete Butt's job.
>>1363554Maybe he can take y=our job, head of bigoted homophobic trash
hunter biden did this
>>1363548I'm kind of hoping that Trump picks Kanye as the next AG
>>1363578>Trump picks KanyeAnd Kan'tye gets Trump addicted to nitrous
HAHAHAHHA*inhale*AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
>>1363570too bad Gaetz withdrew from your anus b4 he came
Can someone help me understand? If he was innocent, why is he withdrawing?
>>1363732>If he was innocent, why is he withdrawing?He isn't, because he didn't and you know exactly what I mean. Gaetz is a member of the Gang Of Pedophiles after all
>leftists cheering on AIPAC getting their way and AG position being filled by a Pro-Israeli appointee who will keep letting Israel genocide palestiniansGOP wins either way, now libshits are literally cutting off their noses to spite their face
>>1363752Joke's on you: I'm not anti-semitic. Are you? Trump loves Jews & Israel, whose IMI supply Zelenskyy with weapons/munitions to spite Putin. I'm pro-Ukraine and anti-Ivan
>>1363755Israel is the one who keeps dragging us into foreign wars, wasting men and lives to protect their borders. That's why we were in Iraq for 20 years. Netanyahu convinced us to topple regimes that weren't wasn't responsible for 9/11. Israel literally wouldn't exist if AIPAC and the zionists in government didn't have blackmail material on the majority of congress.
>>1363755Jokes on you, libshit bot: Gaetz's replacement will ensure more dead Palestinians
>>1363760>>1363759Good posts
>>1363759>>1363760Joke's on you: I'm not anti-semitic. I don't care about Is-lame-ist terrorists, when Jordan, and Azerbaijan - the only country other than Iran that is mainly Shia Islam - are pro-Israel. But you care about Is-lame-ist terrorists or you'd be anti-Palestine. Thus the joke's really on you. Joke was on Hamas(s) and Iran when those pagers blew up on them. I lol'd. Moral: Don't be Muslime terrorists
>>1363759>>1363760>>1363761And now for the punchlinehttps://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-israel-comments/index.htmlTrump says Israel needs to ‘finish what they started’ and said war with Hamas is ‘taking a long time’.You really get the Israel-supporting president you deserve.
>>1363775>You really get the Israel-supporting president you deserve.I know you're german, anon. Which is why you're retarded for mocking us.Our country is unironically fueling the migrant crisis in your country. Because for a people without a nation to call their own, multicultural countries are the only place they can survive.
Honestly, why? If he was nominated by President Trump then he is automatically the best person© for the job. And since Trump only hires the best people©, then changing his mind means that his next nominee will not be the best person©How can Trump be wrong? It makes no sense.
>>1363779>>1363776 will never make any sense>I know nothingftfyThat's not the only reason why you're mocked, >>1363776'Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions'-Thomas JeffersonYou are being ridiculed, >>1363776. Jefferson would do the same with you. Is one of the Founding Fathers 'retarded'? For a country of migrants, and starting with those who were white & european, the only ones in crisis are rightards such as you.That whose origins are Drumpf: German. Thanks for admitting Trump is retarded. Don't forget, he and the Republican administration you voted for love Israel and Jews. He said 'Israel needs to ‘finish what they started'.You are being ridiculed, >>1363776, and not only by Jefferson. And not only by those in a certain european country where Trump's family originated from. You are being ridiculed by people in many more countries.
>>1363779Trump is famous for firing people off a business themed game show.
