At least one Senate Republican has vowed that Matt Gaetz will never be confirmed as attorney general after President-elect Donald J. Trump selected him to helm the Justice Department.
“He will never get confirmed,” the unnamed senator who was granted anonymity told Fox News Digital. “Ain’t gonna happen,” said a Senate Republican source, setting up an early battle between the incoming president and a cadre of members of his own party who are intent on sabotaging him.
Another GOP senator of note, Susan Collins of Maine, also went on record as being opposed to the Florida “firebrand” whose choice as the nation’s top cop rocked Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.
“I was shocked at the nomination,” Collins told a reporter for the online outlet Punchbowl News. “This is why the Senate’s advise and consent process is so important. I’m sure that there will be many, many questions raised at Mr Gaetz’s hearing.”
News: Susan Collins tells me she is not on board with Gaetz as AG.
“I was shocked at the nomination”
“This is why the Senate’s advise and consent process is so important. I’m sure that there will be many, many questions raised at Mr Gaetz’s hearing”
— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) November 13, 2024
As a loyal ally of Trump, Gaetz could be counted on to clean up the politicizing of the DOJ without undercutting his boss the way that Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr did.
The pick that “shocked” Collins and the rest of the Beltway establishment comes at a time of widespread public distrust of the nation’s top law enforcement institution which has been run as a de facto arm of the Democratic Party that has used lawfare as a weapon against Trump, his lawyers and associates, and ordinary citizens who support him and oppose the left’s degenerate agenda.
In addition to Collins, other anti-Trump GOP senators are also squawking to the media over Gaetz’s pick.
“I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for attorney general. We need to have a serious attorney general,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told reporters. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to consider somebody that is serious.”
“This one was not on my bingo card,” added the Alaska Republican who has fiercely criticized Trump.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) who just lost the Senate majority leader election to Sen. John Thune (R-SD), who was groomed by Mitch McConnell, also reacted to Trump’s bombshell pick of Gaetz.
“I think we have to consider any nominee by the president seriously, but we also have a constitutional responsibility,” he said, adding that Trump’s GOP foes might use the sham ethics investigation undertaken by spiteful ex-House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s allies as revenge for his ouster to torpedo Gaetz.
“That might come up,” Cornyn teased, a revealing remark that shows the uniparty establishment is circling the wagons to protect itself from accountability.
“I don’t know whether there’s any basis to it or not,” he added. “So yeah, I’m sure we’ll be asking a lot of questions.”
“He’s under investigation by the House Committee on Ethics,” Collins said. “Obviously, the president has the right to nominate whomever he wishes, but this is why the background checks that are done by the FBI and the advice and consent process in the Senate, and public hearings are also important.”
“He will have a lot of problems in the Senate,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a top Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat. “I think that this nomination will be the first major test of whether they’re willing to stand up to Donald Trump. And we’ll soon know.”
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