Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz says he's withdrawing

not so quick, maybe you are running from something, we should look into that. We wouldnt wanna spend all that tax payer money on nothing.

Please don't nominate him for anything else. He resigned from Congress. This could be incredibly hilarious.

Edit: and if any Democrat on the ethics committee doesn't leak the report they should all be primaried and removed from their posts.

How many Scaramuccis was that?

Gotta be something big to quit congress after being reelected and then decline the cabinet nomination used to justify pulling out.

This sounds like something serious. Someone should search his couches!

Resigning from the 119th congress is essentially an admission of guilt at this point. Whatever is in that report will most likely remain sealed as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen once again, which is why he turned these two opportunities down - to keep the evidence of his wrongdoing under wraps so he can't be held accountable by either the public or the justice department.

So, Matt Gaetz is a pedophile and a child molester. And knowing the state of our shitty fucking country he's probably going to get away with it.

Alright Marjorie Trailer-Queen, time to nut up (🤮 sorry) and leak (it keeps getting worse) that incriminating info about your fellow GOPedo colleagues that you were so brazen about earlier

I mean okay, I mean Trump will just pick something worse. I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine and just release the house report on Gatez.

Weird. Either there's a 4D chess move here, or Trump doesn't have full control of the GOP like he wants.

That's going to cause problems.

He REALLY does not want that ethics probe released. Which means we absolutely should.

Cool, hope he dies.

I forget who on the NPR politics podcast said that he would get pushed out in backroom conversations, and not on the floor of the house, she nailed it.

They don't want the public drama and infighting, because it makes them look even more incompetent. If they're going to push you out, they're going to do it behind closed doors.

So, which clown is next? RFK, the WWE lady, Doctor Oz?

But now who will be the more dangerous but more palatable nominee that Gaetz was running a screen for?

Making way for Dog The Bounty Hunter to be nominated

He can pull out now. But he may have already come a little

too close to getting the job. Might have blown it.

The house could birth an investigation that spawns many problems.

Shouldn't have been so childish.

See ya Matt. More flames next time, eh...

So sexual assaulters aren't welcome in the Trump administration. When will Trump step down?

Can they just release the report? Why is this guy still walking around free?

It’s gonna be my pillow guy, hulk hogan, or kid rock.

Huh. I would have thought they left him in, even if it was as a lightning rod to attract attention while the other nominees all got through.

Must have been he didn't want to be questioned too much.

Huh weird, this being the timeline that it is I kind of just expected them to double down

Is it because he knew the Ethics report had been hacked?

Aww this clickbait headline got me, I thought he was withdrawing from life :(

Gaetz? Pull out? First time for everything I guess...

Excited to see who the next nominee will be. My money is either Don Jr. or PDiddy.

i wonder if he’s going to transition into being another annoying right wing pundit. he was always more of a talker than a doer in the house, and i can’t imagine him going back there because of the pending ethics report. maybe he’ll take pete hegseths place on fox news

Oh no i had the Gestapo on my bingo card

Please just slink into the shadows never to be heard from again. Besides him being a pile of shit I can't stand that dudes fucking face.

In fairness, he probably said that to her, too, and she still ended up fucked.

How sad. Alexa, play "Not Like Us"

huurrr hurr hurr

And just when I thought we wouldn't be getting any positive news for 4 years.

Trump should have picked a Senator if he wanted to put a Pedo at AG. Nobody would be investigating a Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz nom.

Doesn't DeSantis get to make an appointment to fill Rubio's Senate seat for the remainder of his term?

Hopefully DeSantis doesn’t pick him to replace Marco Rubio's senate seat

Oh well now that he's not in contest as a nominee I guess no media is stopping him from taking any office.

Roadblock cleared! Sephiroth him.

I'm guessing that while Trump picked him, the power('s) behind the throne quietly strongarmed him into withdrawing.

Probably sees the writing on the wall

BWAH-BWAH-BA-BWAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

This is going to end up being the worst news and democrats always forget this. Trumps next pick will be worse. It’ll be somebody effective, but awful. He’ll find some MAGA nut job that’s basically hitler ideology with an actual law background and years on a bench. I was hoping dems would back Gaetz a bit because he’s so utterly stupid at least it would shield us for a while.