LOS ANGELES.–President-elect Donald Trump’s, 78, pick for Attorney General 42-year-old former Rep. Matt Gaetz looked dead-on-arrival in the Senate Judiciary Committee, not because the Senate can determine the factual accuracy of allegations against Gaetz but because it’s not becoming of the U.S. Attorney General. Gaetz was investigated by the House Ethics Committee for various allegations related to his penchant to party hard back in 2017 when he was a young Congressman. House ethics committee took testimony from young women attending parties in 2017 with his former buddy and Seminole County tax collector Joe Greenberg, currently doing 11 years for a plea deal admitting to sex trafficking, having sex with minors, drug use, wire and bank fraud, among other charges. While Gaetz spared himself the same fate as Greenberg, his old friend ratted him out to Orlando authorities.
Trump and his transition team must pick their battles wisely, knowing that Gaetz is damaged goods, if, for no other reason, his proximity to the same activities as Greenberg, who now serves times for a plea-bargained reduced sentence. Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee want to give Trump, his Chief of State Susie Wiles and other a heads up that there’s growing opposition to Gaetz to get him through confirmation. “Gaetz is the man to fix the Justice Department,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), saying he deserved a shot. Whether or not Gaetz would fix the corrupted DOJ or not, his background still impacts serving as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. However symbolic the job, Gaetz’s track record precedes him whether any of the allegations have merit. Gaetz was at some of the parties that landed Greenberg in the slammer.
Trump has been the victim of a corrupt DOJ, alleging that he colluded with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential election. Trump can’t see throwing in the towel on Gaetz when he stayed and fought every fake charge against himself, from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s politically biased courtroom to fake election fraud charges in Georgia. Trump’s sentencing on 34 fake felonies by Bragg was postponed indefinitely today by Judge Juan Merchan, knowing that Trump is President-Elect. All the Democrats and media witch hunts to stop Trump from becoming president have all backfired, leaving Trump inclined to back the fight to have Gaetz confirmed as Attorney General “That was kind of the whole conversation,” Cramer said. “He’s the disrupted that the department needs. That the bottom line. And he doesn’t know that anybody else really will be,” Cramer said.
When you consider that Trump faced so many political motivated investigations by federal and state law enforcement, Trump’s inclination would be to back Gaetz all the way, unless Gaetz doesn’t want to go through the process, bound in the confirmation hearings to raise embarrassing allegations. “He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison. Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice,” said Elon Musk on his X platform. Musk and other Trump supporters believe that all the allegations against Gaetz amounts to “less than nothing.” New York Times Maggie Habberman, one of Trump’s biggest haters in the fake news, said that Trump said Gaetz had a 50% chance of getting through the Senate. Whether Trump actually said that or not, it’s actually pretty good odds considering the current media maelstrom.
Withdrawing Gaetz name would acquiesce to a corrupt media and criminal justice system seeking to try-and-convict U.S. citizens based on rumors, innuendo and fake allegations. By Haberman’s standards, Trump should be sitting in a jail cell based on all of her allegations over the last 10 years. If Trump withdrew Gaetz’s name, it would capitulate to Democrats and the fake news that accused Trump of being a Russian asset. Only recently, Senator-elected Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said again he has proof that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Whatever proof Schiff has, it was dismissed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller back in 2019. So, when it comes to Gaetz’s salacious allegations of sex with a minor, drugs and sex trafficking, they all sound disqualifying but you have to accept corruption in the media and the criminal justice system.
Whatever conjecture the fake news gets from various senators, Trump can’t capitulate to the same media horde that want to put him in jail. “He’s got an uphill climb,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Senators in the confirmation hearings don’t need to see the Ethics committee report that rehashes what’s already common knowledge in the press. DOJ officials already declined to prosecute Gaetz from any wrongdoing, that’s all Senators need to know. Whatever the pressure from what’s left of the legacy media, the President-elect needs to hold pat and let the Gaetz answer all the Senators’ questions and make his best case. If the DOJ refused to file charges, it’s going to be duplicated in any FBI background check, meaning that they can’t use unproven allegation against Gaetz. Trump knows what he’s gone through and has no intent of capitulating to the fake news.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
