Matt Gaetz has been making calls to Republican senators ahead of a likely difficult confirmation process in 2025.
Former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who President-elect Trump announced as his selection to be attorney general during his second term, is making calls to Senate Republicans ahead of his confirmation hearing next year.
Several GOP senators told reporters this week that they spoke with Gaetz by phone since Trump picked him to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A source familiar told Fox News Digital that the former congressman “is dedicated to winning the support of senators for his nomination for the attorney general”, noting that “he has been working the phones.”
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said Monday night that he spoke with Gaetz days prior. “He called me”, he said. “Very brief conversation.”
The senator would not divulge any additional information about their call. Mullin and Gaetz have had a tense relationship in the past, and the senator slammed him in an interview at the time, bringing up allegations that he had slept with an underage girl.
“There’s a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor… of the girls that he had slept with. He’d brag about how he would crush [erectile dysfunction] medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night”, he said at the time.
Gaetz denied Mullin’s claim when he made it. Gaetz has not been convicted of charges related to these allegations.
