The Bulwark: “Eight days after making the snap choice to appoint Matt Gaetz to be the nation’s subsequent legal professional common, Trump phoned him Thursday morning to inform him he wouldn’t get confirmed, in accordance with a supply briefed on the dialog. The president-elect defined that Republican senators had been too troubled by the intercourse scandals and investigations surrounding Gaetz and that the fixed and salacious distractions had doomed him.”
Stated Trump: “You don’t have the votes. These senators aren’t transferring.”
“One other supply conversant in the dialog between Trump and Gaetz mentioned Gaetz had acknowledged he had between 4 and 6 Republican votes towards him. He may solely lose three.”
