Donald Trump Is Dead Serious About Getting Matt Gaetz to DOJ
As Trump began formulating the type of individual he wanted atop the DOJ, he was drawn to those attributes and to the idea that Gaetz would help him investigate the investigators.
The hunters have become the hunted, a Gaetz confidant said. This is not your grandfather s party. This is MAGA.
Not everyone in D.C. shares the enthusiasm. The announcement of Gaetz s nomination may have thrilled MAGA, but it shocked official Washington, coming on the heels of a brazen series of selections by Trump for other cabinet posts. The congressman s firebrand label is well deserved. He has been a bombastic member of the House, keen to throw sharp elbows at his foes, defend Trump in dramatic ways and pick fights within his own party s tent.
That attitude has won him many enemies on the Hill. But it was also fundamental to Trump s decision to choose him for the AG slot, according to a Trump adviser familiar with the transition process.
None of the attorneys had what Trump wants, and they didn t talk like Gaetz, the adviser said. Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bullshit. Gaetz was the only one who said, Yeah, I ll go over there and start cuttin fuckin heads.
We are not in a time of normal politics, if you haven’t been paying attention.