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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Media reports exist of Angst at DOJ over Trump's nomination of Gaetz to head the Department.

 https://www.startribune.com/anxiety-and-dismay-inside-the-justice-department-after-trump-taps-gaetz-as-attorney-general/601181698

That is a published AP feed, saying at the beginning:

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general has many Justice Department employees reeling, worried not only about their own jobs but the future of the agency that the Trump loyalist has railed against.

[...] Career lawyers at the department interviewed by The Associated Press, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share their feelings publicly, described a widespread sense of being stunned by the nomination — even outrage. They spoke of being flooded with calls and messages from colleagues as soon as the news broke.

Some inside the department were not immediately sure that Gaetz, who graduated law school in 2007 but has spent his career as a lawmaker, including in Congress, was even a lawyer. And some are already looking for new jobs as concerns grow over Gaetz's rhetoric about going after the ''deep state."

Gaetz has claimed the department is ''corrupt and highly political,'' and strongly criticized the federal prosecutions of Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters. He also has suggested abolishing two agencies he would oversee as attorney general, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He would arrive in the job without the legal experience of his predecessors, including the current attorney general, Merrick Garland, who as a high-ranking Justice Department official supervised the prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombing case before becoming a federal appeals court judge.

Trump described Gaetz as the right person to "root out the systemic corruption" within the agency, end ''weaponized'' government and ''restore Americans' badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.'' Trump has yet to announce a similar leadership change at the FBI, though one may be coming given his long-running criticism of the director, Christopher Wray.

The critique is that some are worried, some dislike Gaetz as an agency head nominee, and there IS the remainder of the article.

Earlier, Crabgrass published a link to the 2024 CPAC speech given by Gaetz.

Timing for the nomination going to the Senate committee hearings, if published, has not been seen by Crabgrass online.

As a guess from reading online items, there is more second guessing of the Gaetz and Hegseth nominations, than for other nominees. It is a subjective impression.

Some media publishing concerns the Tulsi Gabbard nomination. Crabgrass readers have likely already read online items about Trump's choices.

The impression is that confirmation hearings are yet to be set on a timeline.