The corporate media, along with a cadre of Never Trump commentators on the right, boasted about the defeat of Gaetz’s nomination, citing widely discredited sexual allegations against him as evidence that he was unfit to lead the Justice Department.
And sure enough, a handful of establishment Republican senators latched onto these allegations in the Democrats’ ridiculous ethics probe as justification for opposing Trump’s nomination of Gaetz.
The defeat of Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general shows that this time, Trump really does have to drain the swamp.
The defeat of Gaetz’s nomination is a prelude to the kind of fights Trump is going to have to engage in and win if he wants to dismantle the deep state and enact his MAGA agenda.
Apparently there were at least four GOP senators staunchly opposed to confirming Gaetz as attorney general: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Curtis of Utah.
Gaetz stood out in Congress not for being a hard-partying playboy, which is common enough in Washington, but as one of only a handful of GOP lawmakers who spoke out against the Russia collusion hoax, the politicized Jan.
After an 18-month investigation by the Biden Justice Department, no charges were filed against Gaetz because the two central witnesses in the probe had serious credibility problems.
It was an early setback for President-elect Donald Trump that confirms the greatest threat to his agenda isn’t Democrats, but establishment Republicans.
No, they opposed Gaetz for the same reason they worked to undermine Trump’s agenda throughout his first term in office.
But that didn’t stop House Democrats from launching an ethics probe that relied on these same sources and their unsubstantiated claims about Gaetz.
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