US Matt Gaetz Withdraws From Consideration as Attorney General

Matt Gaetz is withdrawing from consideration to be US attorney general in a major defeat for conservatives who wanted him to overhaul the Justice Department in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz tweeted Thursday. “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.”

Gaetz, 42, a former congressman from Florida, came under intense scrutiny in response to a long-running House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct, including having sex with a minor. The Justice Department also investigated Gaetz for alleged sex trafficking of a minor but informed his lawyers last year that the probe was closed without charges.

Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing.

The decision to withdraw Gaetz from consideration represents a stinging rebuke for Trump when it comes to one of his first key moves as he prepares to take office. Gaetz was seen as a top choice to carry out Trump’s hard-line agenda on immigration, policing and other hot-button social issues.

Trump has indicated that he’ll push for a radical transformation of the Justice Department, which has more than 115,000 employees. The department sits at the apex of the machinery that Trump will need to carry out his agenda from enforcing federal laws to litigating controversial matters. It also plays a key role in doling out billions of dollars in grant funding for immigration enforcement, border security and policing.


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[spaztocate9000]

The AG from Texas is a better pick anyway, I hope he gets it.

 

[John Badman]

Matt Gaetz killed a man and his father covered it up.

 

[Clotso Coof]

His real problem was that GOP senators on the necessary committee hate him behind closed doors. His nomination was never going to get out of committee even without a sex scandal.

 

[GlupShitto]

Can both parties just NOT put up people who are credibly accused of being sex pests, if not outright rapists?

The problem is that the Dems will falsely accuse anyone they don't like, as is the case here. This is honestly a really fucking big disappointment, we shouldn't be conceding to Democrat witch hunts. It shows that the party at large is compromised because Gaetz is literally innocent.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

It shows that the party at large is compromised because Gaetz is literally innocent.

it's totally normal for a 42 year old man to venmo a 17 year old for sex

 

[Hitman One]

I'm sure Zognald will find someone sufficiently talmudic to meet with the approval of his masters in Israel.

 

[GlupShitto]

it's totally normal for a 42 year old man to venmo a 17 year old for sex

Seventeen is legal in most places and also it's not clear that the venmo transactions were for sex. I venmo people all the time and I haven't fucked them.

 

[DeathfatFag]

A now-unemployed attorney who likes hookers and blow ALLEGEDLY? Cannot wait to see what happens next

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Seventeen is legal in most places

but not in FLAWDA heheheheh

An unemployed attorney who likes hookers and blow ALLEGEDLY? Cannot wait to see what happens next

hunter biden wants to speak with you

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Give me Ken Paxton already.
(They are 100% going to accuse him of rape too.)

 

[DeathfatFag]

hunter biden wants to speak with you

Damn... does this mean we're gonna see Gaetz's cock? Too much. I just want lulz.

 

[The Last Stand]

Matt you faggot, you had a chance to be the funniest Attorney General in history

I don't get the funny.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Can both parties just NOT put up people who are credibly accused of being sex pests, if not outright rapists?

Thats the thing, especially for republican nominations no matter who a christina blasey-ford will come out of the wood work for money and attention. Now that its worked, apparently twice with hesgeth, prepare for an unending stream of whores who can cry on command.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I don’t think he’s letting the media win; the media simply won. They created SUCH a sideshow with attempting to Kavanaugh him, that it’s simply too much of a distraction to ignore.

I don’t know what would have happened if he hadn’t withdrawn. It’s possible that the figurative fæces-smearing of a weaponized rape allegation might start to yield less and less results if he had simply been bullheaded and stayed. But the DOJ really needs to be cleaned up, down, bottom, up, inside out and outside in.

Who knows? Maybe Trump will appoint someone who will be even more effective as a way to say “Whatever I can do, there is always something worse. Just take the first thing and live with it.”

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

why won't the house committee drop their report. hello, DoJ? Show me the pictorial ebidance! show us the proof of these claims or you just give credence to gaetz's defense of it being a political hackjob on par with the steele dossier.

 

[Kung Fu Karl]

Donald Trump is a ***** and we're gonna get four more years of tax cuts four more years of endless third world Indian immigration I expected nothing from a second trump term the man is basically becoming neoconservative Zionist establishment swamp creature hopefully the next gunman puts the bullet straight through his head he would be more useful as a martyr for the right than he is actually to the actual right

Oh no, tax cuts? The inhumanity!

 

[Burd Turglar]

Yeah, all this does is make it obvious that dude was clearly fucking a teenager. Sure, it's not full blown pedophilia, which is rampant in Washington, but still gross.

 

[merrybrandybuck]

Really not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but certainly a bit of an embarrassment for Trump to start his second administration. He needs to get somebody good in with less baggage as a replacement pick. Most people can't even tell you Trump's VP's name, they probably won't ever hear or care about this.

Certainly makes me look a bit more suspiciously at the accusations against Gaetz.

Muh baggage!
Nigger anyone who isn't a quasi Dem is going to have "baggage" dug up and thrown at them, real or fake. They're saying Trump is a racist rapist Nazi Hitler.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Really not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but certainly a bit of an embarrassment for Trump to start his second administration. He needs to get somebody good in with less baggage as a replacement pick. Most people can't even tell you Trump's VP's name, they probably won't ever hear or care about this.

Certainly makes me look a bit more suspiciously at the accusations against Gaetz.

He probably fucked that 17 yo who said she was 18. he's paid hooker amounts of money to the broad or something right? I can sit on the fence over it if she's 17 closer to 18 than 17 closer to 16. The question is where does Gaetz go because he resigned from congress. Looking at Gaetz's record he got mccarthy out but he's also a 2028 contender to vance. a possible 2028 Vance-Gaetz ticket? There is something wrong with Gaetz but i can't remember what it is.

Seventeen is legal in most places and also it's not clear that the venmo transactions were for sex. I venmo people all the time and I haven't fucked them.

Was her payment the one labeled "school"? I recall a few payments for 500+ which is high class whore levels of money with stripper excuses like "school" and "books" or something.

Give me Ken Paxton already.
(They are 100% going to accuse him of rape too.)

They'll trot out pictures of dead kids at the border or some dead troon kid for paxton.

 

[RuPaul’s Drag Racist]

Matt Gaetz probably is a really sleazy guy, but how many congress critters do blow and fuck 17 year olds (prosts included)? At least it wasn’t a boy (this time). The media and the neocons were after Gaetz with a vengeance and it makes me wonder why.