Matt Gaetz shocked Washington on Thursday with his announcement he was dropping out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s Attorney General, as the recently resigned Florida congressman’s bid for confirmation faced serious questions amid sexual misconduct allegations. Gaetz said in a Thursday statement on X his nomination had become a “needlessly protacted Washington scuffle.” “I […]
US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks to members of the media after speaking on the House floor about a possible Motion to Vacate to oust US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Matt Gaetz said Thursday he […]
Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, said the panel’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz should be made public, seeming to discount claims that doing so would be an unusual step. President-elect Donald Trump tapped Gaetz to become the next attorney general last week, an immediately controversial choice considering the […]
“Matt Gaetz must never become America’s attorney general,” the newspaper’s editorial board began a blistering essay published last week. The board ripped Gaetz as a “rogue Florida congressman” and “a provocateur who’s good at delivering rhetorical red meat on the MAGA speaking circuit.” And Gaetz’s selection for the role “lays bare the depth of Trump’s […]
The Weekend Update desk at “Saturday Night Live” devoted its opening to hocking some loogies at Donald Trump’s picks to lead his presidential administration. That list includes billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who has been tapped by Trump to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency taskforce, which aims to […]
What’s crazier than (potentially) putting notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation’s health? Nominating GOP congressman Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general of the United States, which Donald Trump did on Wednesday. And no, that is not the set up to a joke about Trump’s second-term advisers; it is something […]
Stephen Colbert spent the majority of his opening monologue on Wednesday night’s “Late Show” talking about President-elect Donald Trump‘s Cabinet choices so far, including Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. “Almost eight years ago, we all saw [Trump] saunter down those Capitol steps, put his […]
