Tommy Tuberville threatens to end career of any GOP senator who blocks Matt Gaetz
Tommy Tuberville threatens to end career of any GOP senator who blocks Matt Gaetz
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered a threat to any Republican who might break rank on confirming Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as Donald Trump's next attorney general: MAGA will come for your job.“I don’t know, you’re finding all the swamp creatures coming out right now” to oppose Gaetz's nomination, T...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) warned Republicans against opposing Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as attorney general, stating that MAGA supporters would target their jobs if they break ranks.
Tuberville defended Trump’s right to choose his team, urging senators to “vote with President Trump.”
Gaetz, who recently resigned from Congress, is a divisive figure within the GOP, having faced FBI and House Ethics investigations over alleged misconduct.
Some Republicans are openly concerned about the nomination and are deliberating their next steps.
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Gaetz, who recently resigned from Congress
What!? How did I miss that?
Are you telling me he was gone and now Trump has brought him back... what the fuck.This must be how Marty McFly felt. This really is a Biff timeline
I believe it happened right after Trump's AG news was announced. It also conveniently came right before an ethics report was about to be released on him after the investigations finished
Damn I would have been very happy about that.
Now there's only sadness.
They will vote tomorrow whether to release the report, so they still could
Even if they do, im not expecting anything to come from it.
Oh, fair. I'm just trying to be optimistic lol. I hate this
You and me both, my friend. On both points.
What!? How did I miss that?
They announced it at some off hour, specifically hoping it would fly under the radar.
But the dots are really simple to connect.
- Gaetz was about to be exposed as a kiddy diddler facing a lifetime on the sex offender registry list.
- Trump swoops in and offers him the AG position. This gives Gaetz not only political cover to resign from congress without looking suspect, but also gives him a path to make the sex trafficking issues go away.
- Gaetz quits congress abruptly, knowing that house ethics rules mean the report exposing his exploits with teenage girls will not be published after all.
- With the ethics report safely under wraps and the Senate firmly in Trump's pocket, Gaetz is going to get the AG nod.
- Gaetz makes his own sex trafficking investigation disappear, makes the Trump investigations disappear, and vows to continue doing Trump's bidding as AG without question.
- Most likely, Trump and Gaetz will start to meddle in Trump's state cases as well. While state governments and legal scholars will decry this interference as highly illegal, the Trump administration will continue to push forward, with the backing of the Supreme Court, under the legal premise of "We're in charge now. Deal with it."
The swamp gets ever deeper and deeper.
He has to resign to be AG. But yes resigning on just the nom, with the ethics report set to be released Friday, does make the whole thing stink. Especially given that Trump is transactional.
I’m guessing this is somewhat of a Hail Mary play for his career given that the walls are closing in on the ethics probe and him making plenty of enemies.
This really is a Biff timeline
Biff is based on donvict, because it's been known for decades just what a total asshole he is.
In the movie, Biff Tannen – Hill Valley’s number-one citizen, America’s greatest living folk hero and Marty McFly’s arch nemesis – resides in a palatial penthouse atop a casino, which bears a striking resemblance to the Trump Plaza Hotel, which opened its doors five years before the film premiered.
Oh I know. And it came true.