Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz says he's withdrawing

not so quick, maybe you are running from something, we should look into that. We wouldnt wanna spend all that tax payer money on nothing.

Whack the mole now so it doesn't show up somewhere else.
- More like a wart

Please don't nominate him for anything else. He resigned from Congress. This could be incredibly hilarious.

Edit: and if any Democrat on the ethics committee doesn't leak the report they should all be primaried and removed from their posts.

Note that while he resigned from this current Congress, he did get reelected to the next Congress, so he'll still be a US rep in Florida once the session starts in late January. Just kind of an extended two month vacation really.
- Maybe not, according to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/us/trump-gaetz-news/5e296b83-bf2f-50cc-96b8-5049b764b8a9?smid=url-share:
  
  Absent extraordinary events, we do not expect to see Gaetz back in the House next Congress. When he submitted his resignation to the House last week after being tapped for attorney general, he wrote: “I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress.”
  
  It is always possible that Gaetz can invoke the ancient privilege of "SIKE!!!!" And take it all back. But then the ethics report will get released....
- Wouldn't that mean the house investigation can be resumed? I don't think he wants that.
He'll make a run for governor. DeSantis is term limited and his seat is up in two years.
he is scared of a moral report that would go public if he is part of the kabinet. so no he wont get any other positon, if he wants to try to lie the pedophelia away.
I'd imagine he won't get nominated for anything else per se, but he'll just be a senior advisor or some bullshit. He'll absolutely still be in the white house, in Trump's ear.

Resigning from the 119th congress is essentially an admission of guilt at this point. Whatever is in that report will most likely remain sealed as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen once again, which is why he turned these two opportunities down - to keep the evidence of his wrongdoing under wraps so he can't be held accountable by either the public or the justice department.

So, Matt Gaetz is a pedophile and a child molester. And knowing the state of our shitty fucking country he's probably going to get away with it.

as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen

Man, if you get elected into ANY government office you shouldn't be able to be considered a private citizen.
I'm hoping against everything else that Johnson will stop protecting him because he's now not worth anything to them now and isn't worth the political capital to protect 🤞
I mean, #metoo took forever to come around. I like to think in some future he'll get boned
And trafficker. I thought the qanon wanted to "save the children"?

Or is this just IOKIYAR?

Alright Marjorie Trailer-Queen, time to nut up (🤮 sorry) and leak (it keeps getting worse) that incriminating info about your fellow GOPedo colleagues that you were so brazen about earlier

She never had any intention of releasing anything. She was trying to keep the Gaetz report from coming out.
She got a hush appointment so she won't be talking about ethics reports anymore.

How many Scaramuccis was that?

Scaramucci actually got the job, so it's probably negative Scaramucci's

He held the nomination for .8 Scaramuccis, and was fired 6.2 Scaramuccis before his earliest possible hire date.

Edit: Did Scaramucci math
- Eighty centimooches. Great job, Gaetz!
Were in a new numerical realm now, the Gaetz, that count as negative Scaramuccis.

Gotta be something big to quit congress after being reelected and then decline the cabinet nomination used to justify pulling out.

This sounds like something serious. Someone should search his couches!

He quit to end the Congressional investigation. Was on his way out one way or another. This was just his attempt to fall upwards.

Maybe they'll add him to the DOGE roster after this. You can fuck all the teenagers you want over there and nobody will complain
- He quit to have this dismissed, but he could return in January since he won election. The DOJ nomination was there to distract us, why he did it.
Vance will search them for free
Paying minors for sex is hard time in prison. If evidence of such a thing became public the DOJ would essentially be forced to prosecute him. Right now they can just ignore it. Which they prefer to do because they like being employed.
- Is it hard time in prison though? He trafficked them across state lines, meaning it goes to a federal court which makes it eligible for pardon
  
  I could be wrong, but I thought it went federal soon as it crosses the border
To be clear, he resigned from current Congress. He was still reelected to next Congress.
- He said he was not going to join the 119th Congress either in his resignation.
- That would mean the report could be easily resumed or released, since he would be a current member again.
  
  I'm sure the Republicans will shut it down because they are corrupt, but being a returning member could undermine the opposition based on him not being a current member right now.
Matt Gaetz hiding more underaged sex crimes we don't know about

I mean okay, I mean Trump will just pick something worse. I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine and just release the house report on Gatez.

I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine

So you are perpetually disappointed, got it.
- Yeah, pretty much.
He's already announced his next pick. It's Carole Baskin

/S
- Someone named Pam Bondi. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-trump.html

Weird. Either there's a 4D chess move here, or Trump doesn't have full control of the GOP like he wants.

That's going to cause problems.

Or Gaetz is hoping that no further details from the ethics report leak, and he can salvage his career after this blows over. If it ever does that is.
I don't think the GOP was honestly expecting him to win.
Or Trump just named somebody he knew would have no chance and make the Left waste energy opposing him, so that they're more accepting of whomever he names for real.
- Makes everyone takes their eyes off Tulsi, the Russian shill that is nominated for Director of fusking national intelligence
- Ugh. I know I'm more accepting. And disgusted by it :(
It's the second. Gaetz was way too inflammatory for the lesser evil tactic.
Or it's going to prevent some of the problems...
- Problems for Trump.
  
  Not problems for a lame duck

He REALLY does not want that ethics probe released. Which means we absolutely should.

My conspiracy theory is that he wasn't a serious contender for AG. He got the nom which allowed him to resign from Congress. This forced the ethics committee to stop investigating him because he was no longer a member.

While he was a contender for AG, the Senate pushed for the release of materials anyway. Gaetz withdrawals from consideration, making the report moot.

This has Bannon written all over it.

I forget who on the NPR politics podcast said that he would get pushed out in backroom conversations, and not on the floor of the house, she nailed it.

They don't want the public drama and infighting, because it makes them look even more incompetent. If they're going to push you out, they're going to do it behind closed doors.

So, which clown is next? RFK, the WWE lady, Doctor Oz?

I heard that on the radio yesterday. They said they expected two or possibly three to withdraw because Orange Dipshit will never admit that he was wrong in choosing them.
- I would imagine someone has a file on Tulsi that she wouldn't want to get out. Things are not going great for Hegseth either. Unfortunately I think our physical education curriculum will be disproportionately based on wrestling and CMS will be run by a TV doctor

Cool, hope he dies.

He can pull out now. But he may have already come a little

too close to getting the job. Might have blown it.

The house could birth an investigation that spawns many problems.

Shouldn't have been so childish.

But now who will be the more dangerous but more palatable nominee that Gaetz was running a screen for?

My money is on Paxton.
- I appreciate the thought you put into it, but my God that was difficult to upvote
Guiliani.
- no, see, in Trump's head, Guilliani is a loser because he couldn't escape having his stuff taken by the law
"President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department"

Can they just release the report? Why is this guy still walking around free?

I have a suspicion the House is holding it over his head to keep him from swearing in for the next congressional session. He won his election this year, so he could just simply re-jiin the House even though he resigned for this term.

Making way for Dog The Bounty Hunter to be nominated

Probably judge Judy

See ya Matt. More flames next time, eh...

Huh. I would have thought they left him in, even if it was as a lightning rod to attract attention while the other nominees all got through.

Must have been he didn't want to be questioned too much.

So sexual assaulters aren't welcome in the Trump administration. When will Trump step down?

Just the ones who don’t own it haha

It’s gonna be my pillow guy, hulk hogan, or kid rock.

Huh weird, this being the timeline that it is I kind of just expected them to double down

i wonder if he’s going to transition into being another annoying right wing pundit. he was always more of a talker than a doer in the house, and i can’t imagine him going back there because of the pending ethics report. maybe he’ll take pete hegseths place on fox news

Is it because he knew the Ethics report had been hacked?

Aww this clickbait headline got me, I thought he was withdrawing from life :(

Gaetz practices withdrawal method.
- The people he prefers to fuck don't have to worry about pregnancy for a bit.

Excited to see who the next nominee will be. My money is either Don Jr. or PDiddy.

Gaetz? Pull out? First time for everything I guess...

What’s the point of pulling out if they can’t get pregnant yet. Boom.

Please just slink into the shadows never to be heard from again. Besides him being a pile of shit I can't stand that dudes fucking face.

The shadows of a prison cell is what id prefer

Oh no i had the Gestapo on my bingo card

Don't you mean gazpacho?

Next nominees, Lionel Hutz.

How sad. Alexa, play "Not Like Us"

In fairness, he probably said that to her, too, and she still ended up fucked.

Trump should have picked a Senator if he wanted to put a Pedo at AG. Nobody would be investigating a Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz nom.

That’s kind of expensive though, making an international call to Cancun.

huurrr hurr hurr

And just when I thought we wouldn't be getting any positive news for 4 years.

Wait until Trump announces his replacement before labeling this as good news
- I'm going to celebrate while I can, Trump will always pick someone worse. It doesn't matter who sinks them or why.
  
  We learned that supporting the lesser evil is no longer an option with this last election. Maybe it's time we stood up for what's right and not what's close enough.
I hate going down a possible conspiracy rabbit hole, but he REALLY felt like a distraction.

Hopefully DeSantis doesn’t pick him to replace Marco Rubio's senate seat

If that happens, then they should release the report. At a bare minimum, he should never hold public office again.

Oh well now that he's not in contest as a nominee I guess no media is stopping him from taking any office.

Roadblock cleared! Sephiroth him.

I'm guessing that while Trump picked him, the power('s) behind the throne quietly strongarmed him into withdrawing.

He just doesn't want the ethics report to come out.

Doesn't DeSantis get to make an appointment to fill Rubio's Senate seat for the remainder of his term?

Probably sees the writing on the wall

Probably saw that report
- My brother in christ, he made the actions in the report

BWAH-BWAH-BA-BWAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

This is going to end up being the worst news and democrats always forget this. Trumps next pick will be worse. It’ll be somebody effective, but awful. He’ll find some MAGA nut job that’s basically hitler ideology with an actual law background and years on a bench. I was hoping dems would back Gaetz a bit because he’s so utterly stupid at least it would shield us for a while.