JF in the News: Matt Gaetz for Attorney General

The announcement may have come as a surprise when it dropped on Truth Social, but Trump confidants said his name had long been in the frame as the natural choice to overhaul a justice department blamed for weaponizing the legal system.

‘This is where you’re going to get the Department of Justice cleaned out,’ said John Fredericks, radio host and chair of Trump’s Virginia presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020. 

‘It’s not business as usual … the lawfare, the weaponization of government, all the things that we have seen and all of us experienced. 

‘The Matt Gaetz nomination to the Department of Justice is a clear signal that those days are over, and those people have to pack their bags ASAP and get the hell out of town.’

It meant Trump chose a controversial figure with a reputation as a provocateur, disliked by many of his congressional colleagues and at the center of a House ethics investigation.

And it meant that Trump picked a loyalist over more qualified lawyers who had been in the mix as contenders.

Possible names included former acting US Attorney General Matt Whitaker, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, and John Ratcliffe, who got the nod as C.I.A. chief.

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