Matt Gaetz, who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee on sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls, is Donald Trump’s pick to be attorney general, because of course that’s what Trump would do.
“Matt will root out the systemic corruption at DOJ, and return the Department to its true mission of fighting Crime, and upholding our Democracy and Constitution,” Trump said in what passes for a statement.
Gaetz is a William & Mary Law grad, which we’re sure the folks there are proud of, and he has been the guy instrumental in making sure House Republicans did nothing with their majority the past two years.
A former buddy, Joel Greenberg, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2022 in the sex trafficking case that is linked to the House investigation.
Greenberg got a reduced sentence in exchange for cooperating with authorities in the Gaetz case.
Gaetz, you may remember, sought a pardon in the case from Trump in the final weeks of Trump’s first term as president.
This would be a good time to remind you that 82 percent of the 30 million White evangelicals who voted in the 2024 elections voted for Trump, despite his own issues with sex crimes.
The big one there: two juries sided with a woman, E. Jean Carroll, in defamation cases in 2023 and 2024 in which the central point was Trump’s claims that Carroll was making up a story about Trump sexually assaulting her in 1996.
The judge in the first case, Lewis A. Kaplan, dismissed a post-trial claim from Trump’s legal team that Carroll had defamed Trump by saying Trump had “raped” her, ruling that her words were “substantially true.”
The juries awarded $88.3 million to Carroll in the cases.
So, an adjudicated rapist got the White evangelicals’ votes, and their votes enabled the adjudicated rapist to put a suspected child sex trafficker in charge of the Department of Justice.
And this is the side that wants you to believe that they’re big on family stuff.
Just so we’re clear on that.
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