Johnson calls Gaetz ‘one of the brightest minds in Washington or anywhere’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s attorney general pick, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is “one of the brightest minds” in Washington. In an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, Johnson downplayed concerns about Gaetz’s nomination and praised him as a reformer. “Look, Matt Gaetz is a colleague of mine.…