President Elect Trump is sending messages that he WANTS HIS knuckehead Matt Gaetz to be the countries Attorney General…
If he gets what he wants?
It woiuld be against the better judgement of the US Senate and mostly every sane spectator…..
This fight IS Trump’s first flex…
There will be more…..
The man IS determined to shape America in HIS image….
Not how ‘We the People’ have done for centuries…
Trump’s efforts could backfire also…..
With a Congress asserting itself against a convicted felon who wants take away its power and reason for existence….
President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with his decision to put forward former Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, despite widespread unease on Capitol Hill about entrusting the Justice Department to a figure with limited legal experience who has recently faced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Trump’s insistence on the controversial pick has drawn warnings from allies and lawmakers, who caution that Gaetz faces an uphill climb to secure the 51 votes needed for Senate confirmation. There is growing concern, too, that the spectacle of a Gaetz confirmation hearing might overshadow the priorities on which Trump has spent the last two years campaigning and for which he received a mandate to push through with his victory this month.
Yet the president-elect has made clear that he views Gaetz as the most important member of the Cabinet he is quickly assembling, sources with knowledge of Trump’s thinking told CNN, and he considers the nomination of the former Florida congressman an urgent priority for the incoming GOP majority in the Senate.
Trump wants Gaetz confirmed “100%,” a source told CNN. “He is not going to back off. He’s all in.”
Trump made his pick for attorney general hastily amid dissatisfaction with other potential candidates, but he has nevertheless grown enamored with the idea of having a political arsonist like Gaetz overseeing his promises to dismantle the Justice Department. He also believes Gaetz is uniquely positioned to defend the Trump administration on television, an attribute prioritized by the president-elect. Trump’s pick for deputy attorney general — his defense attorney Todd Blanche — will carry out the day-to-day work of overseeing the Justice Department’s more than 40 agencies and 115,000 employees….
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The elevation of former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence will also test the Republican Senate majority. Kennedy has amassed a devoted following through outlandish public health claims and is also a former Democrat with some views that clash with Republican orthodoxy. The intelligence community, meanwhile, has raised concerns about Gabbard’s qualifications and history of attacks on the agencies she will be tasked with working alongside.
While members of Trump’s team are unfazed by those concerns, they acknowledge the challenge of getting all his picks to 51 votes in the Senate. Some Trump allies have floated the idea of recess appointments, effectively bypassing the Senate, but it’s not clear whether that is a viable path….
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The Gaetz saga is exactly the kind of early confirmation battle that could test newly elected GOP Senate leader John Thune, who will be under immense pressure to push Trump’s nominees through in an effort to mend fences with him. The two have had an up and down relationship. The president-elect has made clear he’d like to have Thune pursue recess appointments, in which the Senate goes into recess to allow Trump to appoint his Cabinet members without the chamber’s vote.
But that process would require a majority of the Senate — meaning a vast majority of the GOP — to agree, something that Thune himself has suggested could be difficult if members are opposed to certain nominees….
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