Trump has reportedly been calling GOP senators to convince them to back his controversial Gaetz Cabinet nomination.
President-elect Donald Trump will not “go down fighting” for former Congressman Matt Gaetz, his controversial pick for U.S. attorney general, according to former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Gaetz, formerly the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation and federal criminal probe into allegations including sexual misconduct and illegal drug use, on November 13 was nominated by Trump to become the nation’s legal authority. The president-elect at the time praised Gaetz as a “deeply gifted and tenacious attorney” who would “root out systemic corruption” as the top law enforcement official at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
While the House ethics report on Gaetz was at least temporarily blocked by his resignation from Congress shortly last week, a DOJ document obtained by The New York Times added fuel to the fire on Wednesday by revealing that Gaetz allegedly paid thousands of dollars to a number of women via Venmo.
