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Gaetz Resigns from Congress Effective Immediately After AG Nodthehill.com/homenews/house/4989579-matt-gaetz-resigns-attorney-general/
383 sats \ 40 comments \ @Cje95 14 Nov Politics_And_Law
I just want to say for the record now I had a colleague at work call his and said it was a ploy to get him out of Congress. There is no way under oath that Gaetz is able to make it out. First of all he's under Federal investigation and second of all he has made nothing BUT enemies in Congress.
When they either hold a vote and he doesn't pass or more likely he withdraws it will be a time to celebrate. I'd be shocked if he actually made it to a hearing with the Senate next year because there is so much he would be forced to answer for under oath in public for the first time.
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14 sats \ 1 reply \ @Arceris 14 Nov
Well, I guess the "he's the sacrificial appointment" argument isn't valid anymore...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
His ethics report comes out in two days… its finna be bad
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21 sats \ 20 replies \ @Wumbo 14 Nov
Even if a nominee didn't have skeletons in the closet, why would one resign before the confirmation vote?
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Arceris 14 Nov
To allow a replacement to be appointed, or the special election timeline, to begin. Normally the replacement process cannot be started until the seat is vacant.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
This is the reason they gave but I think its the ethics otherwise Waltz would have resigned as well
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0 sats \ 15 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Nov
That was my thought. At the very least, it seems like he'd wait until Trump formally takes office.
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10 sats \ 14 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
His ethics report comes out in 2 days… word in the halls its going to be bad… very bad
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0 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Nov
Who prepares a congressional ethics report?
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62 sats \ 12 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
There is a bipartisan ethics committee with an even number of seats between the two parties… both parties put well respected members in this so it doesn't have the extremes.
Gaetz kicked McCartney in part because he refused to get involved in an ethics investigation. Its not the Speaker’s place to interfere and Gatez knew it would be bad.
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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Nov
That description doesn't inspire confidence in me, since I have nothing but disdain for the uniparty.
It just sounds like a mechanism for the establishment to protect itself from insurgents.
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21 sats \ 10 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
I'd look into it then and make the decision yourself but last year he refused to continue to voluntarily participate. The guy has a reputation in DC for not only his younger women thing but also how shitty of a person he is. I've seen that and he really is a POS and doesn't care about anyone but himself.
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Nov
I won't necessarily dismiss the findings, but I have doubts that someone who plays nice with party leadership would find themselves under investigation.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 14 Nov
But the larger impact of the resignation is that the House Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, which was in its final stages, will be effectively dead. The panel will have no jurisdiction to investigate Gaetz since he is no longer a member of Congress, and its findings may never see the light of day — a major boon for Gaetz as he prepares to face an already-skeptical Senate.
Basically, he was two days away from the internal ethics report being released, and now he's not in congress, so the report vanishes.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Well it doesn't vanish… esp because its pretty much complete. It immediately will be brought up in a Senate confirmation and is a reason why he won't be confirmed
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 14 Nov
The fact that he resigned right away suggests that you are correct and that this may be a way for him to avoid facing the ethics probe. If that's the case then most likely he will also withdraw from the AG nomination
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Max Miller is another Rep I work with and he is spot on with what he has said 😂
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @proeu 14 Nov
Lmao Jonathan Greenblatt of ADL is not happy about this. He posted "Rep. Matt Gaetz has a long history of trafficking in antisemitism - from explaining his vote against the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act by invoking the centuries-old trope that Jews killed Jesus to defending the Great Replacement Theory and inviting a Holocaust denier as his 2018 State of the Union guest. He should not be appointed to any high office, much less one overseeing the impartial execution of our nation's laws."
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Gaetz is a POS for sure and hated by Republican Members outside his bubble of like 5 people
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @_stacktoshi 14 Nov
He's unpopular in one of the world's most unpopular organizations? That's gotta count for something, right??
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52 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Exactly what I'm saying this is a hell of a lot of issues with one person from across the board
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @_stacktoshi 3h
Where there is smoke... even if he's not guilty of what they're accusing him of, I'm glad to get rid of the drama. Hopefully there's someone squeaky clean who can be just as effective.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 3h
Yeah he was a huge distraction
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 14 Nov
He's got a good reputation in libertarian circles recently, he's in good company (reputation-wise) when it comes to Trump's other appointments, and I haven't seen anything concrete, so I'm inclined to believe he's just considered an enemy of the state, not necessarily an enemy of the people. If these allegations are true, then he's a p.o.s. and can rot in hell. We gotta cut out the guilt by association crap. I'd rather my congressman be a partier than a war criminal.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Nov
what is the federal investigation?
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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
“Minor” sex trafficking, campaign finance violations, underage women all combined in one… its sick one of his friends pleaded guilty a while ago to his part…
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @_stacktoshi 14 Nov
Were these the same feds who entrapped the Whitmer kidnapping suspects, allowed protesters to enter the capitol building on Jan. 6 only then throw them in cages for years, and help create and exacerbate the COVID pandemic?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Nope entirely different
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @_stacktoshi 14 Nov
Oh, so I should blindly trust the government in this one instance (or just trust that there's legitimate suspicion)?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 14 Nov
Uhhh since his close friend pled guilty… yeah there are some issues plus his rep in DC is nothing but you g women and illicit substances soooo
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 14 Nov
That would be quite the ploy.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 14 Nov
Not not yet 😅
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