The Daily Blast: Trump’s Unhinged Rant Announcing Matt Gaetz as AG Signals Chaos Ahead

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On Wednesday, Donald Trump unleashed a rambling announcement explaining his choice of Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general, lying manically about Gaetz’s supposed work revealing how the Justice Department had been weaponized against him. Translation: Trump wants Gaetz to use DOJ to carry out his personal vendettas. This comes as Trump has picked the Putin-friendly Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. We talked to Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the Meidas Touch Network. He explains why these choices signal chaos ahead, and why the Gaetz pick in particular shows he’s fully determined to subvert the rule of law to punish his enemies, just as he advertised in his rant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Two big things just happened with major implications for the future of Donald Trump's agenda.
1:09.8	Trump has tapped Matt Gates to be his attorney general,
1:13.1	and a number of Republican senators are reportedly aghast at the pick. On another front,
1:19.0	Republican senators elected John Thune as their next majority leader, passing over Rick Scott,
1:24.7	who was the first choice of MAGA influencers. And this has some MAGA personalities screaming that the GOP has already betrayed Trump.
1:32.5	These two things raise a question.
1:34.3	How bad will the splits between the GOP establishment and MAGA really get?
1:39.4	Today we're chatting about this with Ben Micellis, the co-founder of Midas Touch Network, who has been
1:45.2	closely tracking the MAGA response to all these developments and is a good chronicler of
1:50.0	maga madness in general. Good to have you on, Ben. Good to be your Greg. So Ben, here we are
1:56.7	already. Trump has tapped Matt Gates of all people as his choice for attorney general.
2:02.1	Senate GOP aides are telling Politico's Andrew Desidero that there's no way Gates gets confirmed.
2:08.7	CNN's Melanie's Anona reports that House Republicans literally ran away from her when she tried to get comment on Gates.
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