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FED UP Republicans LOSE IT on Fox over Trump Picks

2024/11/16
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主持人Ben Meiselas报道了共和党人对特朗普提名盖茨为司法部长的强烈不满,以及福克斯新闻网内部就此议题产生的分歧。 特雷·高迪对盖茨的提名表示强烈反对,他认为众议院伦理委员会的调查报告应该公开,公众有权了解盖茨的性行为不端指控。他认为盖茨既缺乏能力又缺乏品格,不适合担任司法部长。 其他共和党人,如Molly,也表达了对盖茨提名的担忧,认为此举会掩盖特朗普其他优秀人选的优点,并损害司法部的声誉。 迈克·约翰逊作为众议院议长,却强烈要求不要公开盖茨的伦理委员会报告,此举引发了公众的强烈不满和批评。 民主党人Debbie Wasserman Schultz强烈反对盖茨的提名,她认为盖茨缺乏经验,且面临性交易指控,不适合担任如此重要的职位。 南希·梅斯最初反对盖茨,但在其选区被改划后转变立场,并对盖茨表示支持,这体现了部分共和党人为了党派利益而放弃原则的现象。 艾米·克洛布查强调参议院有责任调查盖茨的指控,因为这些指控关系到司法部的公正性。 拉尔夫·诺曼则为盖茨辩护,认为盖茨是一个杰出的法律人才,并能激怒自由派人士,这反映了部分共和党人对盖茨的盲目支持。

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Why are Republicans on Fox News criticizing Donald Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General?

Republicans are concerned about Matt Gaetz's ethical and legal issues, including allegations of sexual misconduct with underage girls and drug use, which they believe disqualify him from leading the Department of Justice.

What did Trey Gowdy say about Matt Gaetz's suitability for the Attorney General position?

Trey Gowdy argued that Matt Gaetz is not fit to lead the Department of Justice due to his lack of both character and competence, and because he was under investigation for serious ethical violations.

How did Senator Amy Klobuchar view Matt Gaetz's nomination?

Senator Amy Klobuchar expressed concern about Gaetz's past allegations and questioned his ability to oversee an agency responsible for investigating serious crimes like fentanyl trafficking and sex trafficking rings.

What was the reaction of some Republicans to the House Ethics Committee's report on Matt Gaetz?

Some Republicans, like Maga Mike Johnson, urged the House Ethics Committee not to release the report, which they believed contained damaging information about Gaetz, highlighting their concerns about transparency and integrity.

How did Nancy Mace, a Republican Congresswoman, justify her support for Matt Gaetz?

Nancy Mace defended Gaetz by claiming he was a champion of civil rights and good on cannabis issues, despite his controversial past and the serious allegations against him.

What was Ralph Norman's justification for supporting Matt Gaetz's nomination?

Ralph Norman argued that Gaetz was a brilliant legal mind and would be a formidable opponent to left-wing socialists, dismissing the allegations against him as a political witch hunt.

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Republicans, including Trey Gowdy, express strong opposition to Donald Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, citing concerns over Gaetz's ethical conduct and suitability for the role.
  • Trey Gowdy criticizes Gaetz on Fox News, questioning his integrity and competence.
  • Gaetz's nomination is seen as a 'wild card' that overshadows other good picks.
  • Republicans are divided on Gaetz's nomination, with some senators not supporting him.

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for most of their hosts and most of their panels. Here's Trey Gowdy on Fox referring to the fact that the House Ethics Committee has completed an ethics report on Matt Gaetz, who Donald Trump has now nominated to be the Attorney General of the United States of America. And Trey Gowdy says, "Look, that report's going to come out. I know that the MAGA Republicans in the House want to try to bury it, but

It's either going to come out one way or another. So let it come out right now. Let's know what the people said about Matt Gaetz and the underage girls who testified before the House Ethics, the witnesses out there who were saying that Matt Gaetz was having sex with underage girls. Let's get it out there. The public deserves to hear it. This is on Fox. Here's what Trey Gowdy says on Fox. Republican, play this clip.

Yeah, the overwhelming majority of his picks will sail through because they were grand slam picks. But to Molly's point, you don't root out corruption at the Department of Justice by picking a corrupt person to lead it. So Matt Gaetz, either the report comes out and he's not going to be the attorney general or the report doesn't come out and he's not going to be the attorney general. The problem, Brett, is all

the good picks, John Lee Radcliffe, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin, Mike Walsh, all the good picks. Nobody's talking about those right now. They're talking about this wild card pick of someone who had to get out of the House to avoid being sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee. That dumbfounding pick is just sucking the oxygen out of all the good ones he made.

You are referring to the situation with the report in the House Ethics Committee. Johnson. Here he is again on the Bret Baier show. And Gowdy says, I don't even think it's 50-50 amongst Republicans in terms of the support for Matt Gaetz. He goes, Republicans don't support this guy in the Senate. That is now the House is a whole different story. But watch Trey Gowdy here play this clip. All right. Let me ask this back to our cabinet casino.

If you have $100 in chips, this is an audible, what percentage of those chips are you putting down that at least one of these cabinet nominees does not make it through? Trey? Can I get more than $100? Everything I have. I talk to senators all the time. One of them is not going to get through. Because you're confident that the headcount is...

is not there the head count is not even 50 50 on one of them one one one of them can't even get half the republican senators but i'll let you guess from our earlier discussion who that might be i sense i sense where that's going with you okay molly you know in this line by trey gowdy is it's not even a matter here if you have to pick between someone who's competent but has low character he's like gates lacks both competence and character here play this clip

Well, we'll see. I think, like I said at the beginning, a lot of these senators want to get most of these through, if not all, that they can. Trey, I'll give you last word on this, about Molly's point about the DOJ not going forward, the FBI not going forward with charges against Gates.

Yeah, with all due respect to Molly, I was there for it. If you want to give credit to somebody, give it to Kash Patel, Jim Jordan, John Radcliffe, James Comer. Don't give it to the guy that was out putting on makeup while other people were doing the investigation. He just picked Jay Clayton. He just picked Todd.

Both of whom would be fantastic. They would do exactly what you want it done. You don't have to pick between character and competency. You can actually have both in a nominee, but Gates doesn't have both.

You know, it is a lawyer from California named Mitch Jackson says he goes, oh, brilliant move, America, out of a country full of seasoned lawyers and judges. Your guy is really going with Matt Gaetz for attorney general, the guy under investigation for, let's see, sexual misconduct, drug use and obstruction of justice. I mean, why not add in a circus act while we're at it? This is the highest legal office in the nation.

not amateur hour. Gates's legal resume, and listen to this because I know there's a lot of talk about Gates and of course his potential criminal conduct, but Gates's legal resume, it's a masterpiece. He practiced law for a grand total of about one year. He never took a case to trial. Did he ever even set foot inside a courtroom? His top three cases, let me paint you a picture of what Gates was doing when he was a lawyer.

He sued an elderly woman in a debt collection case because she couldn't pay a home care firm his dad just happened to own, Classy. He battled it over a beach volleyball net placement for a homeowner's association. Legal, legal stuff right there. And my personal favorite,

A lawsuit against two fishermen accused of swiping a promotional boat from a local restaurant. High stakes. So this is who your guy and the GOP are trusting with the entire Justice Department? Yeah.

That'll go well. I wanted to share that one because I know a lot of time is spent talking about Gates and underage women and drug use girls and drug use. But I think that that's his full legal resume right there as well when he was a lawyer. Here is Senator Amy Klobuchar. And here's what she has to say about Gates. Play this clip. Secondly, this is a

our job in the US Senate and how the founders of our country set this up was a system of checks and balances. That's why we have to have hearings. That's why we have to get to the bottom of this. And these are clearly allegations. While they may not have at the time risen to the level of criminal, these are allegations we need to know when this person would be overseeing an agency that does things like

investigate fentanyl crimes, take on major sex trafficking rings. I think we need to know this. And I just keep looking at like conservative commentators like Ben Dominic, who said that he considers Matt Gaetz vile. Okay, I don't know Matt Gaetz, but I have heard more negative things about him from the Republican side than I don't think I've heard ever before for a nominee.

So clearly they would, they have to, it's going to be on them to make this decision. - So Trump is- - Here she is again with Jake Tapper, let's play it. - Let me just do a little devil's advocating here. - Okay, Jake. - One, allegations and investigations are not convictions. The Justice Department did look into this case and they did not bring charges against Congress, former Congressman Gates. And two, Speaker Johnson might say,

He's no longer a congressman. He resigned and it is not the tradition of the House Ethics Committee to release reports on people who are no longer members of Congress. Well, first of all, this has happened a number of times with a Republican senator when he left for the good of the public. The report was released and a Democrat in the House of Representatives once left and the report was released after. So that's not true. These reports have been released. It's time to break up with your trash can.

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So did you hear him there?

Why wouldn't you? How corrupt to your bone, to your core can you actually be where you go? You know what? There's a report out there that has detailed, credible information that the guy that Donald Trump appointed to be the attorney general of the United States is a pedo, a drug user, a crook, a criminal. There's an obstructor of justice to lead the Justice Department. We have a report out

But as the Speaker of the House, I'm strongly urging, do not release the report. If that doesn't make your blood boil, then I don't think you have blood because that should piss you off, on the other hand.

The MAGA conduct speaks for itself on that analogy I gave right there. Here's Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz saying, Most parents would not trust or should not trust their daughters or kids around Gates. You're telling me that you're going to let this guy be entrusted with our entire Justice Department? Play the clip.

no experience whatsoever with the Department of Justice other than being a subject of investigation for trafficking, sex trafficking minors. I mean, that's his experience with the Department of Justice. And, I mean, we're talking about someone who would be responsible for the entire system of justice who has been an...

investigated by the system of justice and has no other experience other than that. It is an extreme outrageous nomination and one that obviously I think should be defeated.

And let's talk about former Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be director. Sorry, let me just add something else. I mean, because this is an extremely important appointment. I mean, you wouldn't trust Matt Gaetz. Most parents wouldn't trust Matt Gaetz with their teenager, never mind with our entire system of justice. And here, though, Nancy Mace, who used to be very anti-

Matt Gaetz until her district was gerrymandered so that it became full MAGA and then she leaned in full MAGA and wore the MAGA hat and went to Trump Tower and said, I love you, I love you. So embarrassing. After Donald Trump insulted her and said horrible things about her, she's like, I love you, take me back, Donald. That's literally what she said. I've done other videos on that. She also...

Did a video, local newspapers warned about this in South Carolina, where she was like, they were drinking shots of like vodka and vomiting in each other's mouths. It was like the grossest thing I've ever seen. I'm sorry I haven't shared that with you, but it's like a video from her days right before she ran from Congress and they were spitting vodka in each other's eyes. It's gross. Don't Google it. Don't watch it. Don't do it. Here she is right there talking about Matt Gaetz. Now she's a big fan of Matt Gaetz.

He's a champion of civil rights, she says. Play this clip. I support all of...

Trump's appointments that he is seeking, including Matt Gaetz. This is someone who's been very good on civil rights and civil liberty issues. He's good on cannabis issues, something that I'm very passionate about. He's someone that believes in the Constitution. And I think that's really important when you're looking at who's going to lead in that department. And also, Trump is also appointing other folks, including attorneys, as well to support Matt Gaetz. And I support all of the individuals Trump is putting forward today.

You know, curiously, on the one hand, you want to have the opportunity to ask questions and have people challenge for the sake of the American people's information in the vaccine space. But isn't there you kind of giving a carte blanche of sorts to Donald Trump? You don't have any questions about the process or concerns about any of the appointees?

Well, there's a process of checks and balances. You showed earlier on the program tonight the Senate majority leader, Senator Thune, who said that there is a process. Just to show you what a clown show these MAGs are as well, here's MAGA Republican Ralph Norman saying, look, the best thing about Matt Gaetz is he triggers the libs.

He owns the libs and these leftists, these left wing socialists. So they're afraid. Play this clip. As you know, Gates is Trump's pick for attorney general. He was the subject of an ethics committee investigation over whether he engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. The committee was supposed to vote on whether to release that report on Gates today. But now that Gates has resigned from Congress, the report has been scrapped. What are your thoughts on Matt Gates? Can he actually get confirmed or is it?

Not he's not getting confirmed and everybody knows that.

Look, Matt Gaetz is a brilliant legal mind. Matt Gaetz will be the left-wing socialist's worst enemy. I think he will get confirmed. Matt can handle himself. He has nothing to hide. The DOJ dismissed all the charges. The political witch hunt, and Matt knows this, the political witch hunt on the ethics reports had been done by House members, and we know who pushed that against him. He pushed back.

DOJ dismissed it. And so but he has nothing to hide. Matt Gaetz is a tremendous pick. You can trust what he does. And he's a risk taker, which is good and is what is what's needed in that position. OK, that's that's good to have to hear from you, because I know some of your colleagues don't feel that way. You know, how does that even happen? I guess greed, money, corruption. But how does that even happen? What we're watching there?

You are defending the indefensible, which shows you, though, in a broader lesson, right? The depths of depravity, it has no floor with them. If you can do the mental gymnastics with ease that a Ralph Norman does or a Nancy Mace does, you could in your mind.

justify any atrocity at all, right? I mean, you can see how these people can justify literally the unthinkable with that same logic or illogical. It's going to own the law. Y'all realize what you're supporting, right?

So I just hope we the people take note of it. I give Trey Gowdy credit and that Fox segment credit for doing the, telling the truth to the people, which they should. But then of course you have this other kind of counter-programming, if you will, that you see. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Woosah. Woosah. Subscribe. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.