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I think the attorney general is going to have to go into the Department of Justice and fix a lot of things that are broken currently,
Whitaker said during an appearance on Fox News last week, before Gaetz's nomination was announced My best guess: Matt Gaetz is simply the shiny object that Trump is dangling out there to distract from Tulsi Gabbard and to generate a sigh of relief when Matt Whitaker or some other relatively normal type is nominated to be [attorney general] after Gaetz goes down in flames,
Tribe wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday I’ll give you the truth as to why I’m not Speaker,
Because there may be information that the investigation would find forthcoming that would ultimately be an embarrassment to the president,
These allegations are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress,
Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit, ... Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That.”
wrote Ben Domenech in a Substack post titled Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are ‘Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about,’
Part of this is to protect the president against information or surprises coming out later that he and his team weren't aware of."
He expanded on these comments to reporters at the Capitol, saying I can't understand any situation under which we would deny ourselves access to full and complete information,
The Texas senator said ... according to Punchbowl News It is dangerous to target and intimidate individual employees of this Department solely for doing their jobs,
In recent months, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation's public schools,
It makes absolutely clear, in the first paragraph, that spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution,
Garland told a Senate panel in October 2021 Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation's core values. Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety,
Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I have engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18. The answer to this question is unequivocally NO. You can apply this response to every version of this question, in every forum,
Gaetz said in a statement posted to his social media account It’s amazing that you’re more upset about allegations than you are about the weaponization of the Department of Justice,
he told Mitchell, referring to the sex trafficking allegations against Gaetz Looking at just my past service in the Legislature, being someone who can move big pieces of legislation in a bipartisan manner, and being relentless about it. And so all of those things, including just a very strong profile, I think, led to my success in the, in the race,
Bynum told reporters Thursday during a Zoom call with NewDem Action Fund, the political arm of the New Democrat Coalition in Congress Mr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report, ... She was a high school student and there were witnesses,
the attorney, John Clune, wrote in a post on X. ... he added Mayor Giuliani has not been informed by Mr. Caruso of this action. Surely Mr. Caruso would talk to the mayor, or at the very least inform him of such a decision,
The Department of Defense has been enormously mismanaged under the current regime,
I think this is a case where I hope Republicans, en masse, vote against these two nominees, because they will be embarrassed in history if these people are confirmed and perform the way it is perfectly predictable they will perform,
