Embattled former congressman Matt Gaetz, who withdrew his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, said in an interview Friday that he doesn’t intend to return to his House seat in the next congressional term.
“I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch,” Gaetz said in an interview published Friday with Charlie Kirk, a staunch supporter of President-elect Donald Trump and prominent podcast host. “I do not intend to join the 119th Congress.”
Hours after Gaetz ended his bid on Thursday, Trump announced longtime loyalist and former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi as his new pick to head the Justice Department.
(c) Washington Post
As soon as he resigned from Congress effective immediately, I suspected that this was an off ramp for him.
My slightly educated guess is that he became aware that the House Ethics Committee got information that would would prove some of the unsavory allegations against him, and using the political goodwill he had created, he negotiated a soft landing through which he had a plausible reason to exit Congress and then found the opportunity to withdraw his nomination. This allows him to shut down the investigations, because the DOJ investigation already returned inconclusive.
Your theory is based on mainstream lies. You’ll soon see about him…
Interesting. So Gaetz went from being a big macher one minute, and a total gornisht the next minute.