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Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general
(www.cnbc.com)
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This is absolutely the wrong person for the job (if you're Trump). This is basically good news.
Gaetz has literally no demonstrable experience as an attorney that would help him in this role. He got his license to practice law in 2008 and has periodically worked at Keefe Anchors & Gordon where he only practiced real estate, employment, property insurance, and contract law and later lost his law license because he forgot to pay his dues (while in office, where having that kind of credential could be valuable). KAG (now AnchorsGordon) appears to mostly have employed him as a political tool, not as a legitimate attorney that represented their clients directly. There are few if any legal documents with his name on them, so he very likely did very little actual legal work during his employment there.
Since then over 400 alumni of his Alma Mater have described him as "unfit to write or determine the law".
This is a position you want a competent and experienced attorney serving your administration. Gaetz may be a yes-man for Trump, but this is a massive strategic mistake for him and his goals. Trump's proposals so far are absolutely guaranteed to be challenged by the courts if he moves on them, and Gaetz is going to be literally the worst possible representative you could choose to try to defend your admin in that scenario.
Here's a fun theory. He wants Gaetz to oversee as many possible federal criminal cases against Trump as possible. His job would be to bring everything to court and throw the cases. Hello double jeopardy.
Based on the fact that Trump has relatively little interest in any "platform" he has announced and it's mostly about every trick possible to advance his personal situation. He doesn't want competence, he wants people that will do whatever he says no matter what hand the intelligence into Putin's hands, make the military Trump loyalists, quash any future legal troubles from the FBI/DoJ.
While I'm sure he's willing to let people have a go at enacting his campaign rhetoric, in any way that conflicts with a system that might hold Trump accountable, that rhetoric can be compromised.
You seem to think that the incoming administration will be following established laws, regulations, procedures, etc.
They will not.
That is some industrial grade hopium.
You’re overlooking the fact that DOJ lawyers, provided by the Herritage Foundation and FedSoc will be arguing those cases. Gaetz just needs to do what he’s told.
Gaetz is the chess-playing pigeon that knocks over the pieces and shits on the board.