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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