Matt Gaetz’s nomination is dead to me!

Woo-hoo!

Just means someone worse is coming.

BEARKING on CNN too

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What fucking hubris to nominate this creep.

When you're too toxic for the Trump regime, you must have done some REALLY bad shit!

Deserves the trashy "dead to me" headline. This time.

Ruh roh, Shitler's gonna be MAD!!!!

The new Trump fast track to ruin

R7 my thoughts exactly. He must have pulled an R. Kelly on tape with a 14 yr old chick.

Yay! 1 down and three to go (Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK, Jr.)

So it's true that all of his colleagues hate him.

We need to whip up the same frenzy around Hegseth.

This NAZI SCUM cannot lead the Department of Defense.

Aside from being totally unqualified and in the very worst kind of deep legal do do, Gaetz is universally despised as a person. Dumbest nomination ever.

What's he going to do now? Host some dumb podcast? God knows we don't have enough right-wing manopshere content. 🙄

^ I could see him getting Rubio's Senate seat.

There is something else at work.

Trump nominates him, he resigns from Congress so the ethics report will disappear. Congress gets rid of him. Trump doesn't have to deal with him.

A win-win-win for all sides.

Too fishy.

He'll probably run for the seat he just vacated, r16.

This is why the media loves Trump.

Never a dull moment.

He could run for governor after DeSantis is done.

Nothing fishy about it. Trump is stupid an impulsive and drunk on power. He thought he had the juice to make this happen. He did not.

Self-inflicted wound.

That is my absolute favorite kind of wound for DJT, r22!

Can’t imagine Gaetz can be elected statewide. Child sex trafficking is pretty fucking disqualifying

So all this bullshit about Trump playing 3D chess with this nomination. Why do pundits need constant reminders that he doesn’t know how to play chess. Checkers either. Tiddlywinks? Sure.

Nothing much we can do at the moment but sit back and watch these infants get drunk on their own hubris.

Yep R22, this was not some grand strategic move on Trump's part. He listens to the last person in the room. Gaetz was on his plane right before this nomination was announced. This was all about that weasel Gaetz trying to get that ethics report from coming out. And it's backfired spectacularly.

Welcome to life as a lame-duck, asshole.

These controversial high profile nominations are throwaways for the Trump regime. Far more sinister people will be appointed and approved.

Aaron Rupar:

[quote] Matt Gaetz now has more time to focus on raising Nestor

[QUOTE]^ I could see him getting Rubio's Senate seat.

Nah. DeSantis wants that seat for himself. Plus, Gaetz was just interviewed by Senators before withdrawing his nomination. They don't want his stench tainting the Senate. After all, they have Bernie Moreno to deal with now. De Santis will appoint a placeholder.

He isn't too toxic for Trump admin r7, Trump doesn't care. This was the Senate that would have told him there is no fucking way they are approving him. I can't believe the GOP members there actually found a spine.

I agree R28. I'm waiting for Trump to nominate Jeffrey Clark next for AG. Trump already tried to put him there before January 6th, but he was faced with a mass walkout in protest.

I'm not sure there would be such pushback a second time.

Clark is even worse than Gaetz, IMO.

I'm hoping Jim Jordan is Trump's next nominee for AG and maybe then we'll finally get a public reckoning on him too.

The hackers won!

They hacked the sealed information from the testimony of teenaged girls, against Gaetz.

Trump and Congress got scared, so they pulled his nomination.

THIS is how Democrats can get back at Trump and Congress.

HACK and LEAK all damagine information about Trump and his appointees.

Make sure that none of them will ever be confirmed!!!

THIS is how we fight back.

The biggest thing that Trump hated from his first term was all of the LEAKS.

So we need more of it. Right now!

[quote]He could run for governor after DeSantis is done.

That field is crowded, with both Casey DeSantis and Junior Mint lining up for it.

Lara Trumps is all but assured Rubio's Senate seat. Matt may have to settle for his old House seat.

That's exactly what happened, r26. Boris Epshteyn was also on the plane and in the room. Guess who wasn't? Suzy Wiles, who seems to be the only person who is able to get through to Trump or out manipulate the other manipulators on team Trump. She was in another meeting on the plane.

Of course, this leaves open the possibility that Trump & Co will find someone even more heinous for the AG spot. They seem to be on a roll with incompetent, untalented, scandal-prone reality star white men.

Why change what's working out so well for you, Donald?

I think the next AG nominee will be who Trump ultimately intended, only now made slightly less objectionable than Gaetz & more palatable simply by not being a pedophile.

R12 senate is all in for Defense pick. Gubbard will not make it.

Are you sure, r35? Wouldn't he want a family loyalist guarding donated funds at the RNC which he considers HIS money? More donations are probably coming in as I type.

If Trump has any sense he’ll go with Todd Blanche who he’s already nominated for Deputy AG. He’s got three other nominations in danger.

Then STOP TYPING, r42.

President-elect Trump isn't reconsidering his nomination of Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general despite criticism over the pick and the uphill battle the former congressman may face during confirmation hearings next year.

Trump was in Boca Chica, Texas, to watch SpaceX launch its Starship rocket for its sixth test flight when he was asked about Gaetz.

"Mr. President, are you reconsidering the nomination of Matt Gaetz?" Trump was asked.

"No," Trump replied before walking away.

Yeah, he didn't want his pedo and sex pest stuff to come out, which was going to be retributive action from others who don't like him or who want the position for themselves. The long knives in the GOP are long, especially with how mentally unstable and greedy for power everyone is in that party - a totally "every man for himself" grouping of individuals. I hope they all take each other down, publicly, so we have some enjoyment to savor.

[quote] President-elect Trump isn't reconsidering his nomination of Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general despite criticism over the pick and the uphill battle the former congressman may face during confirmation hearings next year.

Interesting.

So it looks like this wasn't Trump's decision.

He was clearly all aboard the Gaetz train, as recently as yesterday.

I thought that maybe Trump had a hand in this, thinking that Gaetz was too toxic.

But it appears that Congress made this decision for him.

But if he runs for his old seat and wins, doesn't that reactivate the investigation now that he is again, a sitting member of Congres?

I can't look at him and NOT hear this.

R22 - yep. The GOP and especially Trump are not that complicated or strategic. He just wants to nominate loyalists and toadies. Some of those toadies will have skeletons in their closets they don't want to come out. Other loyalists and toadies will do a lot of backstabbing and manipulation to get a toehold in there instead. It's a shitshow of unrestrained egos. Should be fun to watch if you can zoom out and disengage your emotions a bit.

Trump is a lame duck. Senate is fairly close and 4 or 5 Senators can derail Trump’s agenda. Any Senator not running for re-election in 2026 has little to fear from Trump. Gaetz should have his secrets exposed and end up in jail.

Tulsi sucks also. And the Defense guy is another creep. Reject all three. Keep RFK Jr. for the insanity.

Boca Chica - This means Small Mouth. I wonder if it may also refer to "Anus Mouth" when lips are pursed like Trump’s.

He resigned his current seat, but he was reelected. He will still be in Congress when the new term starts.

Maybe the whole point of the AG appointment was to make sure the ethics report doesn't see the light of day. He used the threat of the AG appointment to make sure the R's on the ethics committee killed the report. Once he got their sign on regarding the killing of the report, he withdrew his nomination for AG. Now he can go back to being in Congress in the next term (for which he has already been elected to).

The hacker can release it!

Face it, at his age Trump doesn't want to govern or even live in DC full time. He wants to spend most of his time at MaL or at Bedminster working on his golf game.

All of these lackey appointments are to put people in place who will do the real work for him, at his full direction, without complaint or need for him to be present. That's it in a nutshell - there's no "3D Chess" or any other brain work going into ANY of this.

We suffer of course, but it's Trump's world and all he cares about is himself and his comfort (and getting out of his court cases, the real reason he ran again).

I always thought if Biden said he’d pardon Trump and get all the cases dropped, we’d never see him again.

I’m ready for the Senate and singing concerts!

No takesies-backsies, Matt.

Exactly, R55.

Trump just wants to be President so he can "call the shots."

Typical CEO mentality.

Or, typical RETIRED CEO mentality, I should say.

I also think Biden should pardon Trump now if that’s an option and also pardon Hunter. Clear the decks so to speak.

[quote]Of course, this leaves open the possibility that Trump & Co will find someone even more heinous for the AG spot.

Someone on TV the other night mentioned Ken Paxton as another possibility.

I'm sure there's someone else from the fail upward brigade willing and waiting for the call.

Joy in Mudville when the dumbass dufos who everyone hates is out. And someone smarter, more serious , more determined, less hated and meaner is picked instead,

In many ways Matt should be a DL fav, he pays for lots of sex with young hotties, goes to drug filled orgies, has sex with one then sex with another one, while taking Molly and such .

I'm waiting for Trump to nominate Brock Turner for something.

SCOTUS, maybe.

[quote]Joy in Mudville when the dumbass dufos who everyone hates is out. And someone smarter, more serious , more determined, less hated and meaner is picked instead,

They will bring in someone with more gravitas, but with worse views and a meaner agenda. Someone we'll all really need to fear.

I kind of miss the idea of the spectacle that a Gaetz-as-AG tenure would have wrought. Entertaining, at least.

It’s thrilling to see Trump fail so early. Told you so.

In many ways Matt would have been fine. The number two is the real pro. Matt was and is such a clown . Now we get someone better.

These DL happy dances over something as silly as Matt after losing the WH, the senate, the house, and the sc for decades to come, is a little silly .

What’s silly is you thinking Gaetz would be fine. Actually it’s moronic.

Judge Judy will probably be Trump's next pick

Alina Habba next up.

If only there was someone in the trump family that had a law degree

[quote] I can't believe the GOP members there actually found a spine.

They know that the MAGA movement ends with Trump, and, no - there is no successor. Trump's already essentially a lame duck president so why would any senator go out on a limb for him now?

R69

He must really have not wanted that ethics report to be released.

R56 Interesting point but he simply could not have. It would be an olive branch too far. It would cede that Trump was telling the truth and he most certainly would not have gotten re-elected. CERTAINLY.

[quote] If only there was someone in the trump family that had a law degree

I do!

Ahem

I need food!

And better dentures, r78.

Oh, yoo-hooo!

[QUOTE]Alina Habba next up.

Wasn't she nominated as Press Secretary, working under Communications Director Steven Cheung?

Outta my way, dag-nabbit!

How about Rudy Giuliani? He has…had a law degree.

Whichever clown gets picked next depends on who sits next to him on the golden airplane today. I'm sure the toadies are climbing over each other to get there.

[quote] Gaetz is universally despised as a person.

This was key. His picks are abominable but none are as hated by everyone in government as Gaetz.

[quote] I could see him getting Rubio's Senate seat.

I cannot.

Gaetz was reelected to the next Congress. He could take that seat in January, but he can’t get back his seat in this Congress.

Jeanine Pirro reporting for duty.

So Matt will be back in Congress in Jan? I love a public shit show I kind of hope so. The Dems need all the help they can get for 2028.

Since the hackers got this out, they need to go after Large Marge's allegations. I'm dying to know who would even attempt to grope that bleach blonde butch body.

Maybe Nestor has a lot of evidence and threatened Fake Daddy.

R89 no—he could, that doesn’t mean he will. If he did, he’d be right back before the Ethics Committee.

That was my understanding, R87. He resigned from his current term in the House. That potentially would "kill" the release of the report in the current term. His resignation did nothing to the coming term he won in the November election.

I don’t think it’s clear that Trump will nominate someone worse. He might just go with his pick for Deputy AG who is a former federal prosecutor and Wall St law firm partner.

This just means that all of the other terrible picks will sail through because the repub senators think they "owe" it to Trump

Not clear to me they will now relent on the other awful nominees. Possible, but not inevitable. They may like exercising their proper constitutional function.

They the GOP may like standing up to trump said no one ever.

The female reporter at MaL on CNN is just reporting that Trump has no backup plan for the AG position, at the moment. He was really sold on Gaetz, he liked his "strong communication" skills and wanted someone like him for the position who could "lob bombs" verbally in public, at any opposition.

An insight on what Trump seems to be viewing as professional requirements for his Cabinet and staff: loudmouth, uncouth ability to scream at the media and insult anyone who disagrees with them.

Don't quit your day job.

This happens the same day Jussie Smollett is release from prison. Coincidence?

Trump could threaten to do recess appointments but why bother? To save a creep like the DOD guy? He can go with a slightly less horrible but more qualified person with no problems at all.

Papi!

¡Vuelve conmigo!

[quote] They the GOP may like standing up to trump said no one ever.

They just did it.

Trump is a lame duck. I know some here think he's Hitler and will be setting up the camps on 1/20 after he wipes his fat ass with the Constitution but that's just hysterical bullshit.

Trump will find another slot for him that doesn’t require Senate approval. AG was never going to happen.

Alan Dershowitz

I'm also done with my Lawyer Adjunct studies- pick me!

Rudy!

I went to law school too! Pick me.

Dad, Georgetown has a great Law School.

Actually, it does.

Thank the lord.

Matty will not be seated for the next session of congress, Rhonda Santis has already called for a special election to fill the seat asap

Run Matty Run

R104, he’s already done that. Don’t you remember his first term?

No. He hasn’t

r104 You think the majority of Republicans in Congress don't also support shit like Project 2025?

Rhonda's Proclamation

Gaetz has yet to notify the Clerk of the House as to his resignation applying to the new Congress.

One good thing about this is Gaetz forced all the Republican Reps go on record repressing his Ethic report, but then dropped out anyway.

R119, link.

I'm with r104, kinda. There'll be a few hits, but he's got two years of friction before midterms make him lame.

One scumbag down, many more to go I hope.

Now I'll have Daddy all to myself!! Come home Daddy, your boy will be waiting for you.

R100, Jussie was incarcerated??

Maybe he will give it to Rhonda de SantiS

R126: Meatball Ron? She in her griddle and high heels who DARED challenge Trump? Not a chance in hell.

R125, no, he wasn’t. He was only in jail for a few days. His conviction, however, was overturned.

My money is on Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Judge Janine would be very good as Liquor Czar.

[Quote] His resignation did nothing to the coming term he won in the November election.

This is my understanding as well. Technically a congressperson who has been reelected could resign before the current term ends but then return to the seat because they were reelected.

But I don’t think the question has ever come up before.

I assume it’s why he resigned, knowing he could come back if anything derailed his nomination.

Ken Paxton has stepped up to the plate.

R128 Hey, dummy— Incarceration = in jail for a few days.

R132 newsflash: a state doesn’t have the right to enforce a federal law.

There is more shit in the sewer to pick from.

R133, R100 had said that Jussie was "released from prison" today. No, he had not been, he hadn't been locked up for some time, that was what had provoked my remark.

So you acknowledge you were wrong. TY

Now Trump has picked Pam Bondi from Florida:

At least Pam Bondi was a state AG. I don't think she'll go in there with the aim of destroying the DOJ.

R139, she’s corrupt, she’s a Scientology sympathizer, she’s an election denier, and, last but not least, she’s a graduate of “Stetson Law School.” Totally nothing to worry about.

We’re #89!

Stetson Law School has a beautiful campus which is a hop, skip, and a jump from Gulfport, the most lesbionic part of Florida.

Make of that what you will.

Nothing. It makes nothing.

Amazing already to see how misinformed people are.

It took 53 posts before somebody clarified that Gaetz had already won his seat in the next session and choose to leave his district unrepresented for the rest of this session until the 6th of January 2025 to avoid having the report from the ethics committee published.

I don’t know if it was ever corrected by the House Ethics Committee has not made a final decision on whether or not to make public the contents of the report, that was misreported by a Republican committee member yesterday (Wednesday) and clarified later by the high ranking Democratic member. At that point, Gaetz had resigned and it was assumed to face confirmation hearings for the AG nomination. The committee had taken a vote, split down party lines, and voted to adjourn the matter until the 11th of December.

Now that Gaetz has declined the nomination and, presumably, be returning to the House on January 3rd, I believe, there’s no reason for them NOT to release the report as Gaetz is no longer tied to Trump’s transition. Otherwise, this would just be a tried and true tactic for any House member to avoid an ethics investigation. If he truly wants to avoid public release of the report, he would have to resign altogether.

His goose is cooked since, of course, if there were anything positive in the report that exonerated him, he wouldn’t have declined the AG nomination and/or that information would’ve already been leaked.

Gaetz’s decision is significant, of course, because it represents a red line for Republicans, of where they won’t go and what they won’t do for Donald Trump, and also suggests there will be no recess appointments and sets a standard for scrutiny of Trump’s other nominations. It’s a win for the opposition, both within and without the party, the media and public morality.

Also, his next nominee, Pam Bondi, is incompetent as shit, and knows just enough not to act with complete recklessness and abandon. She’ll be quite ineffective as Trump’s AG and I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump recalls her nomination before her confirmation.

This also makes Trump look like a total incompetent and has set the pattern of a criminal sex abuser appointing others of his ilk in Gaetz, Hegseth and RFK Jr. and brought to light that 38% of his appointments thus far are facing such allegations. And if Gaetz folded, it’s likely the other two are not far behind because what makes their allegations more palatable? Nothing.

Big loss for Trump. It could be posited that Gaetz having to face the music is reason enough for Trump’s 34 convictions sticking until he leaves office in 2029 because crimes are crimes - why shouldn’t they stick?

R144 TRUMP DOESN'T CARE !!!!

All he's gonna do is golf everyday as his bank account soars. And two rallies a week because that's his cocaine.

He'll let Musk and Putin run everything for him. JD will probably be locked in a closet.

Matt replaced not by a dog killer but a dog thief.

[quote] And two rallies a week because that's his cocaine.

Correction.

Cocaine is his cocaine.

I wonder how the children of these vile people will turn out? Will JD Vance’s daughter be an awful MAGAt or will she be campaigning for AOC 2036? Will Hegseth’s daughter be on the fundie speaker circuit or will she cut ties and write a scathing memoir?

R145 Dad called last night and said “how long before he’s back doing rallies - January 23rd?” They are going to send him out on the road to keep him happy and out of the way and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s tacky enough to set up a residence in Atlantic City next summer.

The media cycle will be - he did *this awful thing* on stage last night, he went back to the WH and fired X, will he really do Y on Monday, we cannot believe he did Y, we are shocked he did Y, what will he do on stage with his thrice convicted rapist guest this weekend.

[quote]I wonder how the children of these vile people will turn out?

Look no further than the Trump spawn. From the oldest to the youngest, they all match their father in vileness.

Those children turn out just fine

Not gonna lie, I was really hoping that he'd get through. I'm still team ultimate chaos and let the voters get exactly what they voted for.

[quote]Just means someone worse is coming.

Exactly - and it might be some with reasonable competence

Was anyone really shocked that Matty had to pay for it? Probably not. I have to think there's more out there & they likely told him - "this is just the beginning of the leaks" so I don't see this as a growing a spine so much as shanking someone they all hated .

R139 the DOJ will become the cornerstone of Americas effort to find and remove our internal enemies that are hiding within.

We need a strong loyal DOJ to do that. Stronger, meaner, more aggressive, more pro America.

She is not going to gut the DOJ

R145 - 'm sure JD is quite familiar with being locked in a closet. (Ba-dum-pum). I mean, at this point you do just have to start laughing at it all and hope for the best.

Maybe Trump can do this at one of those rallies, Fidel style. He's come close.