Gaetz nomination is “a big middle finger by Trump towards the Department of Justice based on what they’ve done to him”
My interview on Chicago’s Morning Answer: “is Trump supposed to respect an institution that, in his first term, tried to set him up? So I think this is a big middle finger. I think this is him saying, it’s going to be my Department of Justice. I’m not going let it destroy me again.”
I appeared this morning on one of my favorite shows, Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson (no relation) to talk about the announced nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.
After an introduction, my portion stated at the 5 minute mark.
(Short transcript excerpt, cleaned up for transcript clarity)
Proft: Your reaction to the Gaetz nomination.
WAJ: Surprise. I didn’t have a bingo card for this, but he wasn’t somebody who was on the top of my mind as a possible nominee. So it’s surprising.
I think it is in many ways a big middle finger by Trump towards the Department of Justice based on what they’ve done to him.
A lot of people are complaining, you know, ‘this questions the institution itself’. Well, this is the same institution that in the infancy of the first Trump presidency tried to destroy him. Remember James Comey, Director of the FBI, part of the Department of Justice, in many ways, the Director of the FBI is as high profile as the Attorney General, set Trump up at a meeting at the White House a day or two into the first term, knowing that Trump wouldn’t have lawyers around him and used that as an excuse to get CNN to leak the phony Steele dossier.
So is Trump supposed to respect an institution that, in his first term, tried to set him up? So I think this is a big middle finger. I think this is him saying, it’s going to be my Department of Justice. I’m not going let it destroy me again.
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I haven’t said it recently, but it bears repeating: Thank God Garland never made it onto SCOTUS.
Thune and Cornyn both voted to confirm Garland as AG. It’ll be interesting to see whether they think he was a better pick than Gaetz.
That is one thing I will always be grateful to McConnell for. The murder turtle did a lot of things I strongly disagree with, but he may well have saved the country there.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth is merely a guilty dog barking.
I hope he goes scorched earth on these traitors.
Brandon Herrera is being viraled for ATF.
He’s a gun-tuber that ran for congress out of Texas. He would be another epic troll to the left.
Yeah, but keep in mind that Trump’s nominees still need to get past Mini-Mitch’s Senate
The only thing I want Herrera to do at ATF if appointed is to start firing people and shut them down. They have been right up there with the EPA for the most out of control agencies in DC
As the saying goes, “Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.”
Hopefully it’s his way of getting Gaetz out of the Congress, appearing to repay him for his support and putting him in a position where he can’t get confirmed.
Also on the wish list, Gaetz wants to bow out gracefully and will be glad the won’t face the ethics report. He will then decline the AG confirmation beating that would likely take place ending in his public humiliation by stepping aside, saying it was for the good of the country and party (both true, but for himself too).
Doesn’t have to be confirmed. As Thomas Massey said yesterday “recess appointment, baby” and they deal with him for 2 yrs.
He could have done the same thing by nominating an ultra far-right, scholarly loyalist rather than this degenerate Herman Munster scumbag. Same thing with the pass-around, open-mouthed aging bimbo for DHS. These moves hurt him more than they outrage his critics. People spend a long time paying for their temper tantrums.
The Trump Administration is like a tornado, so much is happening that it is hard to keep up with all of it. This time Trump is well prepared. Heaven will not be able to help all the POS who are about to live in incredibly interesting times.
The big question now is whether or not Thune will squish the nomination.
My guess is, YES!
The problem really isn’t with Thune. There isn’t anything he can do beyond coercing certain votes with promises of committee assignments/chairs. The problem will rest with the GOP Senators who are either facing reelection in purple/blue states in 2026 – like Collins – or those who are looking to/likely to retire in 2026 or 2028. Even worse, Murkowski has given several interviews the last 12-months where she leaves the door wide open to leaving the GOP. That’s probably less likely now considering the 3-seat majority of the GOP. But, she’s clearly not a reliable team player. These Senators are going to do whatever they want no matter what Thune says or does. Manchin and Sinema were the exact same way for the Democrats the last 2-years, a HUGE pain their the rears of Schumer. Gaetz will make it through the confirmation process if there are no more than 3 of these IDGAF GOP Senators. It’s gonna be close.
It’s not mostly a middle finger to the DoJ. It is instead, I believe, Trump wants to neuter the government’s biggest domestic weapon– the “National Security” card. The DoJ has a National Security Division whose operation is outside any guard rails, and any investigation labeled national security gives them the cover to hide evidence, witnesses and bar cross-examination of methods of investigation in order to “save lives” (and the courts defer to the DoJ and Intelligence on those matters). Further, the DoJ uses these cases to go after political opponents of Democrats or to guard the interests of D.C.
The classified documents case against Trump saw the DoJ denying discovery to Trump’s team citing, of course, national security, Not even a third party mediator was allowed. The new AG can easily reconfigure the workings of the DoJ simply by changing policy (and firing those who go against policy). That is why Trump’s pick shook the ground in D.C.
So much for Susie Wiles stopping the clown car circus. She should resign.
I see no “clown car circus”. I see Trump appointing a bunch of people that are making the deep state quake in their boots. I saw a story today that even the defense lobbyists are complaining.
The AG has to be the President’s Wingman. None other than Obama and Holder have told us this.
And, according to Alan Dershowitz, the president can tell the AG, who to prosecute, as well as who not to prosecute
and JFK picking his brother.
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