Gaetz ABRUPTLY QUITS as AG Pick
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Why did Matt Gaetz abruptly quit as Donald Trump's Attorney General pick?
In a stunning embarrassment for Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's Attorney General pick has just withdrawn his name from consideration as Attorney General. This as more information has come out about his behavior, potentially engaging in child sex trafficking. Republicans tried to cover up the ethics report by voting not to release the report. which could have detailed Matt Gaetz's child sex trafficking with multiple victims, Matt Gaetz's drug use and obstruction of justice. The pressure on Matt Gaetz was apparently too significant and apparently more information potentially coming out. So Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name. He put out a statement. Let's just take a look at what he's saying. He wrote,
I had excellent meetings with senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump-Vance transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle. Thus, I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one. I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful president in history. I will forever be honored that Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I'm certain he will save America. This coming from an alleged child sex trafficker in Matt Gaetz.
Now earlier today, ABC was reporting though that Donald Trump and Trump's team were putting a pressure campaign on Republican senators to support Matt Gaetz. Evidently, that pressure campaign failed. But let me just show you the reporting earlier because as of about an hour ago, this was the status quo of where discussions remained. And I'm going to show you this specific portion from the ABC report because they quote an official Trump spokesperson as saying they're going all in on Matt Gaetz. So something happened. Let's play this clip.
But we're also told that behind the scenes, the Trump team has been playing hardball and they've been giving an ominous warning to any Senate Republicans who might oppose his nominees. One Trump advisor telling our John Karl that the message is quote, if you are on the wrong side of the vote, you're buying yourself a primary, that is all. And there's a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it. The Trump advisor added the president gets to decide his cabinet, no one else. This comes as yesterday those Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted against releasing that report into the investigation on Matt Gaetz around allegations of sexual misconduct.
So that was the status earlier in the day. As we wrote on our Midas Touch account, Matt Gaetz had to drop out because the number of days since his nomination was quickly approaching 18. Representative Eric Swalwell wrote, as I said repeatedly last week, Matt Gaetz is never, ever becoming Attorney General, like ever. And as I said, there was more information that was likely going to drop. This was a scoop over from Paula Reid at CNN. The Ethics Committee was told of a second sexual encounter between Gaetz and a 17-year-old at a party, according to sources. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes that I still want to see the Gates ethics report and at the Midas Touch Network, we are still demanding the release of this report.
Now, Matt Gates resigned from Congress as a way to preempt the release of that report, arguing that if he's no longer a member of Congress and he's Trump's AG pick, then Congress doesn't have jurisdiction to release the detailed ethics report. potentially linking him with very specific details to a child sex trafficking ring. And he and Donald Trump got the Republicans on the House Ethics Committee to go along with that. But some of the documents and data have leaked, like this chart. right here that shows Matt Gaetz and it also shows his co-conspirator who's pled guilty, Joel Greenberg. What you're looking at there are victims of women and prostitutes, sex workers who were paid off, girls too, who were paid off by these individuals according to what the Ethics Report
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