The Sun Sentinel called out President-elect Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney general pick, saying he was a «rogue Florida congressman.»
Former Representative Matt Gaetz’s Florida hometown newspaper bluntly called out President-elect Donald Trump’s recent judicial nomination, with the editorial board writing on Thursday that the Republican «must never become America’s attorney general.»
Trump called Gaetz a «deeply gifted and tenacious attorney» when he announced his pick for U.S. attorney general on Truth Social on Wednesday. As U.S. attorney general, Gaetz would «root out systemic corruption» at the Department of Justice (DOJ), the president-elect wrote.
Gaetz, a fierce Trump loyalist who has frequently criticized the DOJ, resigned from his House seat shortly after the announcement. Meanwhile, legal experts have questioned Trump’s selection due to Gaetz’s limited legal experience and because he’s being tapped to lead a department that previously investigated him.
The editorial board of South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, which circulates throughout Fort Lauderdale, and the counties of Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach, heavily condemned Gaetz in an opinion article titled, «Matt Gaetz is Trump’s tool for retribution» on Thursday.
Gaetz, who is originally from Hollywood, Florida, which is located in Broward County, represented Florida’s 1st Congressional District in the state’s western Panhandle where he attended high school.
The newspaper’s editorial board called upon the U.
