Trump to Nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to Head the DOJ

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will nominate Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General. The polarizing MAGA congressman from Florida engineered the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and is the subject of an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. We talk about the implications of Gaetz’s nomination and what the Department of Justice could look like under a second Trump term. Guests: Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare; senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute Claudia Grisales, congressional correspondent, NPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kinn. Coming up on Forum, what the nation's Justice Department could look like under Trump. The President-elect surprised many yesterday when announcing for Attorney General Matt Gates,
1:15.6	the former Florida Congressman who was under investigation for having sex with a minor, misuse of funds, and other offenses.
1:23.6	Trump has long indicated he'd used the Justice Department to exact revenge on enemies from within, if given a second term.
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