The Senate Should Reject Matt Gaetz

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 12:50:31 | Updated at 2024-11-15 15:39:20 2 hours ago

The Senate Should Reject Matt Gaetz
National Review ^ | November 15, 2024 | The Editors

Posted on 11/15/2024 4:45:16 AM PST by karpov

Donald Trump nominated Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.), an unqualified toady, to the nation’s top law-enforcement office. And, in the blink of an eye, Gaetz resigned from the House to, apparently, force the shutdown of an ethics investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, obstruction, and other unsavory conduct — misconduct allegations over which Gaetz narrowly escaped being indicted by the same Justice Department Trump would have him lead.

To be sure, Gaetz was not charged. He has denied any wrongdoing. And allegations, even colorable ones, are not evidence. Nevertheless, the standards of fitness for an office of high public trust — and it doesn’t get much higher than attorney general — are considerably loftier than whether one manages to evade criminal prosecution. This puzzling nomination should be swiftly rejected by the Senate for the most basic of reasons: Gaetz is unfit.

We understand President-elect Trump’s instincts here. During his first term in office, his own Justice Department failed to rein in Obama-era holdovers, mainly at the FBI, who publicly intimated that he was a clandestine agent of Russia based on bogus evidence supplied by Trump’s political opponents. The result was a two-year special counsel investigation that addled the administration, with many Trump officials forced to retain counsel at prohibitive expense — to say nothing of the anxiety. Then, once Trump left office after the tumult of the Capitol riot, the incumbent Democratic administration indicted him twice (while other Democratic state prosecutors piled on with criminal charges and financially ruinous civil suits).

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaetz

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1 posted on 11/15/2024 4:45:16 AM PST by karpov

To: karpov

Now I am sure he is the right pick for AG.

2 posted on 11/15/2024 4:46:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

To: karpov

CAUTION: What you are reading is 100% BS written by people who hate you and tried to murder your candidate.

3 posted on 11/15/2024 4:47:18 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (I have zero tolerance and zero empathy for the left)

To: karpov

We reject the Mational Review.

4 posted on 11/15/2024 4:47:44 AM PST by Eli Kopter

To: central_va

Yes. I hope that Trump has a plan to force them to approve him. That would be even better than a recess appointment.

To: karpov

Thank you, Irrational Review

6 posted on 11/15/2024 4:49:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)

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