Matt Gaetz said he is withdrawing his name from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general.
  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Please don’t nominate him for anything else. He resigned from Congress. This could be incredibly hilarious.

    Edit: and if any Democrat on the ethics committee doesn’t leak the report they should all be primaried and removed from their posts.

    • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Note that while he resigned from this current Congress, he did get reelected to the next Congress, so he’ll still be a US rep in Florida once the session starts in late January. Just kind of an extended two month vacation really.

    • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Scaramucci actually got the job, so it’s probably negative Scaramucci’s

      He held the nomination for .8 Scaramuccis, and was fired 6.2 Scaramuccis before his earliest possible hire date.

      Edit: Did Scaramucci math

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    I mean okay, I mean Trump will just pick something worse. I’m more disappointed that Democrats didn’t grow a spine and just release the house report on Gatez.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Gotta be something big to quit congress after being reelected and then decline the cabinet nomination used to justify pulling out.

    This sounds like something serious. Someone should search his couches!

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Resigning from the 119th congress is essentially an admission of guilt at this point. Whatever is in that report will most likely remain sealed as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen once again, which is why he turned these two opportunities down - to keep the evidence of his wrongdoing under wraps so he can’t be held accountable by either the public or the justice department.

    So, Matt Gaetz is a pedophile and a child molester. And knowing the state of our shitty fucking country he’s probably going to get away with it.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I forget who on the NPR politics podcast said that he would get pushed out in backroom conversations, and not on the floor of the house, she nailed it.

    They don’t want the public drama and infighting, because it makes them look even more incompetent. If they’re going to push you out, they’re going to do it behind closed doors.

    So, which clown is next? RFK, the WWE lady, Doctor Oz?

  • HorreC@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    not so quick, maybe you are running from something, we should look into that. We wouldnt wanna spend all that tax payer money on nothing.

  • tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    He can pull out now. But he may have already come a little

    too close to getting the job. Might have blown it.

    The house could birth an investigation that spawns many problems.

    Shouldn’t have been so childish.