Trump Picks One of His Most Loyal Congressmen as Attorney General: Ultra Matt Gaetz

One of his most loyal ideological allies. The President-elect of the United States, Republican Donald Trump, announced this Wednesday that he will appoint the party’s radical, Congressman Matt Gaetz, as the country’s next Attorney General. The Florida congressman is loyal to Trump, courting controversy and was investigated by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct and embezzlement.

Since his arrival in Washington, the lawmaker has built a political brand as a far-right provocateur who sees controversy as natural.

“Met will end mechanized government, secure our borders, dismantle criminal organizations, and restore Americans’ lost trust and confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump said in a statement. Confirmation to the post is subject to confirmation by the Senate, which is in Republican hands.

The hope of “the end of mechanized government” is not a metaphor. Throughout the campaign, Trump has accused Joe Biden’s administration of giving the Justice Department the means to harass him politically. Similarly, Trump has promised to take revenge and oppress his political rivals if he comes to power. Now the president-elect’s blacklist is even more terrifying with Gaetz as attorney general.

Getz Merrick b. He replaces Garland, who appointed Jack Smith as a special prosecutor to lead the prosecution of two federal cases against Trump: the classified Mar-a-Lago papers and the attack on the Capitol. Sixth January.

Smith has been considering for days how to proceed with the cases until Jan. 20, when Trump takes office and can no longer be prosecuted. One of the options on the table is for Garland to order him to close the cases. Mike Davis, one of the Republican Party’s legal advisers, joked a few days ago about the uncertain future of Smith, who could be one of the first to fall victim to the giant’s wrath. “Dear Jack Smith: Please hire a lawyer,” Davis wrote on Platform X.

According to his critics, like Donald Trump, to whom he is fiercely loyal, Gaetz is more interested in confronting his political opponents than in the dry business of governing. He has repeatedly disrupted House proceedings at the Capitol, once even breaking into the high-security facility where Democrats were holding hearings.

He was convicted in 2018 to invite the denier

From the Holocaust to Trump’s State of the Union speech. A year later, he hired a speechwriter who had left the Trump administration after speaking at a conference that regularly attracted white nationalists.

Months after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Gaetz launched an ‘America First’ tour with far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, in which they amplified the former president’s lies about fraud in the 2020 US election. Critics also continued to attack Republicans, using language that reportedly alarmed McCarthy, who feared the lawmakers’ words could incite violence.

Gaetz, like Trump, has been one of the staunchest defenders of pardoning the more than a thousand people convicted in the attack on the Capitol. On January 6, members of the far-right militia known as the “Proud Boys” participated and led the attack. Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarradio has been sentenced to one of the highest prison sentences ever: 22 years in prison.

Although Trump didn’t include it in his victory speech in Palm Beach on election night, one of the promises he wanted to make on his first day as acting president is to forgive the attackers. Some of them celebrated the veteran’s victory, although Trump did not assure that it was a mass pardon. The Republican said he would make “case by case” decisions upon returning to the White House and that he would have Gaetz, who on previous occasions has shown sympathy not only for the attackers in general, but also for Proud, to do so . Boys.