Matt Gaetz says he won’t return to Congress next year after withdrawing name for attorney general
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said Friday that he will not be returning to Congress after withdrawing his name from consideration to be attorney general under President-elect Donald Trump amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Senate Republicans had a line they wouldn’t cross. Here’s why it was Matt Gaetz.
The former Florida congressman had a reputation for causing unnecessary chaos — and had few friends within his own party.
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Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal is good news for Donald Trump, and for Gaetz himself
The system worked. Donald Trump and his loyalists huffed and puffed about breaking the US Senate’s role as a check on bad appointments by the president, but in the end Matt Gaetz withdrew his name with shocking speed from consideration to be Trump’s attorney general.
Matt Gaetz and the D-word
Its end, though, came a little more conventionally. When gravity exerted its pull on that now-former congressman, Matt Gaetz, he reached for a tried-and-true excuse that has softened the landing of many nominees who failed before him, albeit for less shocking reasons. He used the D-word.
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