On Sunday, the AP published a story entitled, “Senators took down one Trump Cabinet pick. But the fight over their authority is just beginning.” The thrust was that Matt Gaetz withdrew from being Trump’s nominee for Attorney General because too many senators told him they wouldn’t vote to confirm him.
This is why we can’t trust the AP or the “news” media in general. The Senate obviously did not “take down” Gaetz because Gaetz obviously never was the real nominee for attorney general in the first place. Neither he nor Trump ever expected him to be confirmed.
The Gaetz nomination was all about preventing a House Ethics Committee report from being released while allowing Gaetz to save face. And it worked exactly as planned.
Over the past three years, the House Ethics Committee investigated allegations that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had sex with a minor, used illegal drugs, took bribes, and engaged in other illegal and unethical conduct. Gaetz has denied all of these allegations, and a separate investigation by the Biden Justice Department resulted in no charges being filed.
Nevertheless, the House Ethics Committee had completed its separate report, and indications were that the report was going to at least reflect negatively on Gaetz and might contain enough evidence to provide a basis to expel him from the House.
Gaetz obviously did not want that report to be released. Resigning from the House could prevent its release, but to simply resign immediately after having been reelected and right before the report was to be released would create the appearance of admitting guilt.
So, Trump provided Gaetz a different pretext for resigning by nominating him for attorney general on November 13th – knowing that Gaetz could never be confirmed for the position in the Senate.
On the same day Gaetz was nominated, he resigned from the House.
How do we know that this resignation was part of that plan and in not conjunction with a serious nomination? None of the Trump’s other nominees who are currently in elective office have resigned their offices: not Sen. Marco Rubio, Govs. Kristi Noem or Doug Burgum, or Reps. Elise Stefanik or Mike Waltz. None of them have resigned before being confirmed by the Senate.
Only Gaetz did, and he did it to stop the imminent release of that Ethics Committee report.
Sure enough, exactly one week later, on November 20th, the Republicans on the Ethics Committee voted to block the release of the report.
Then, the very next day, on November 21st, Gaetz withdrew from the nomination.
The very next day after that, on November 22nd, Trump announced his next – and real – AG nominee, Pam Bondi.
What’s the significance of Bondi being announced one day after Gaetz’s withdrawal? All cabinet appointees need to be vetted, and there’s no way Bondi could have been vetted in one day. She obviously wasn’t. She obviously was vetted weeks ago because she obviously was Trump’s real pick for AG from the beginning.
The Gaetz scheme had the added benefit of making Pam Bondi, a Trump/MAGA devotee who served on his impeachment defense team, look moderate by comparison to Gaetz.
Matt Gaetz was the AG nominee for a total of 8 days, and by the end of that 8 days, he managed to resign from the House with the Ethics Committee report blocked from release without his fingerprints on the blocking. And former Trump impeachment defense counsel Pam Bondi became the new “moderate” AG nominee.
And the AP thinks they have their first scalp and reported it as a “take-down” of a Trump nominee.
Now, if a mere political observer like me from 2,000 miles outside the Beltway could put these pieces together from my home in Castle Rock, Colorado to figure out what obviously happened, you would think that actual supposed journalists, and especially the ones that provide the news to the entire rest of the “news” media, should be able to do so.
But they didn’t – because today’s “journalists,” who were indoctrinated by Marxist professors rather than properly educated, lack the ability to engage in analytical reasoning.
And that’s why 80% of the American public know that we can’t trust the “news” media.
And that’s also why Donald Trump will continue to be able to play chess while they think the game is checkers.
