No. of Recommendations: 6
Matt Gaetz
A pick seven years in the making.
The Surge spent a good amount of time in the Capitol this week. When Trump posted that he would nominate Florida (now ex-)Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general, it was as if the building itself asked, What the fuck?? You can make the argument that other reckless nominees, in the positions to which they’ve been nominated, present a greater risk to general public well-being. But nothing equals the malevolence behind the pick of Gaetz, an unqualified troll openly despised by colleagues on the left and the right for his hostility to a functional working environment, who resigned his seat this week to preempt the release of what’s expected to be a damaging Ethics Committee report into his alleged corruption, drug use, and sexual misconduct. (Resigning his seat is only the second-most-dramatic thing he’s done to stymie this yearslong investigation; he overthrew a House speaker last year for the same reason.) We see three factors in this pick. The first is that Gaetz was able to make his case while chief of staff Susie Wiles was in another room. The second is that this is a position in which loyalty is of special importance to Trump; he loathes his previous two attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr, for not preventing the Mueller investigation and not doing enough to overturn the 2020 election, respectively. Gaetz will do whatever Trump wants. And third, what Trump wants is to make the Justice Department a weapon of the presidency. So: Is the Senate going to let him? Or, rather, can it stop him?
From Slate's The Surge
This has to be one of the most ridiculous, but at the same time dangerous, appointments EVER.
Can you imagine the wails coming from the right if the Dems ever tried to pull such a naked attempt at subverting our democracy?
