Matt Gaetz

Just the nightmare that that was.

So I was there to be a trusted friend, and Charlie Kirk and Stephen Miller and I had talked to a number of people who wanted to be attorney general, and we were presenting some of those ideas to the president.

I was advocating for a different person to be the attorney general on a plane ride with the president, and he just sort of, as he has a tendency to do, said that that wasn't who he wanted, and he wanted me to do the job.

No, none.

Right, right.

And I did tell him if he wanted me to do it, I would do my best job.

I would work hard to be confirmed.

And that I thought I could lead the department out of some of its darkest days and towards something better.

I think Pam Bondi has done a very good job.

I know she has her critics.

By the way, I would have too.

Like if I'd have been the attorney general, there probably would be a whole...

ecosystem saying I wasn't doing enough, but I actually think Pambani's done a good job and I'm here to be her supporter and advocate.

And I think Trump also believed that someone who had been unfairly accused of something and who had endured the grind of that.

Would care about justice.

Yes.

Yeah, would be really interested in fixing it.

I mean, I think that's why President Trump asked me to do the job is because he saw that I could empathize with those who had been treated unfairly and that I would approach the position with a true sense of justice.

I love that.

There were a lot of great people I interacted with in the Senate, but at the end of the day, there was a core block of about half a dozen of them who'd said they would never vote for me.