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Articles about Gaetz's resignation from his House seat.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-resigns-congress-00189488

Gaetz can't automatically get House seat back after withdrawing | verifythis.com

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-resigns-congress-00189488

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"DeSantis’ office did not have an immediate response to questions about when the governor would schedule a special election. But deadlines in state and federal law would make it difficult to schedule one before Congress convenes in January.

Other GOP House colleagues believe his decision is actually tied to an Ethics Committee report investigating several allegations including that Gaetz engaged in sex with a minor, which they believe was poised to be released in a matter of days. Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has sought to attack the panel probing various allegations against him. If Gaetz is no longer a member of the House, the report likely won’t be formally released, though it could leak."

 

The Ethics Committee report on Gaetz won't be released to the public, at least for now.


House Ethics Committee won’t release Gaetz report for now

 

Another meeting is scheduled to convene in December to discuss whether to release to report on Gaetz.

Now that Gaetz has withdrawn from AG selection, less impetus exists to release the report.

Gaetz seems to be engaging in a musical chairs game. He resigned from Congress just after Trump nominated him for AG and just before the ethics report might have been released. Now he has withdraw from the AG nomination after intense scrutiny was on him that gave more impetus for the report to be released.

Now there's another vacant GOP seat in the House for a GOP which has a slim majority.

 

All around, strategically it seems like a foolish attempt by Trump to install Gaetz.

The fact that Gaetz withdrew from Trump's AG nomination implies that he doesn't have much hope that Trump would be able to install him as AG without Senate confirmation. Trump has been threatening to employ a fringe tactic of using executive power to adjourn Congress so that he can do recess appointments that don't require Senate confirmation.

 

As slimy as Mitch McConnell has been at using underhanded tactics as Senate majority leader (not allowing Obama's nominations to come to a floor vote), McConnell has said he doesn't approve of Trump adjourning Congress by force to install his nominations.

McConnell won't be majority leader in January 2025, so he has little power to stop Trump.

 

If he's actually concerned about health, RFK Jr. should be avoiding deep fried food, regardless of the type of fat used. Deep frying in fat creates unhealthy substances (furan, acrylamide, nitrosamines, heterocyclic aromatic amines), damages the native nutrients, and adds calories.

RFK, Jr. is talking like when he's in Trump's administration that he will somehow outlaw seed oils from being used at McDonald's so that he can return to enjoying 'healthy' deep-fried restaurant food.


What RFK Jr has said about McDonald's as photo with Trump goes viral

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On Saturday, a day before he was photographed eating McDonald's, Kennedy had posted on X: "I cant wait to eat McDonalds again! Bring back tallow!"

This is a key tenet of Kennedy's beliefs about nutrition — he even sells merchandise branded with the tagline: "Make frying oil tallow again."

 

Gaetz was unqualified from the start, regardless of the tactics Trump was ready to use to try to install him.

 

Bluster sells.


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Sorry, Roy Cohn is dead

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/21/donald-trump-attorney-general-matt-gaetz-00190953

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"Donald Trump is not a monarch.

That’s the unmistakable lesson of the ill-fated nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Rather than showcasing Trump’s absolute power over his GOP allies, it revealed his limits. The doomed nomination lasted just eight days — and its failure is an unwelcome lesson for the president-elect, who has been projecting invincibility and claiming a historic mandate despite his reed-thin popular vote victory."

 

Trump supporter who was convicted of rioting at Capitol is convicted again of plotting to kill FBI agents.


Tennessee man involved in Capitol riot guilty of plot to kill federal agents

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A Donald Trump supporter convicted for his part in the deadly January 6 attack on Congress was convicted a second time, this time for plotting to kill FBI special agents.

Edward Kelley, from Tennessee, developed a “kill list” of officials who investigated his participation in the January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the US Department of Justice said, after the conviction was secured on Wednesday.

“Every hit has to hurt,” Kelley said in recorded remarks, according to the justice department. “Every hit has to hurt.”

 

ME man sentenced to 50 months in prison for attacking police officers at Capitol riot.

He had a 'less than honorable' discharge from the Marines.


Biddeford man sentenced to more than 4 years for assaulting police during Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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"Klamann said Maurer, who was enlisted in the U.S. Marines for less than five years before a “less than honorable” discharge, should have known better. She asked the judge to impose a slightly higher 4 ½ year sentence, saying that despite his plea, Maurer has not expressed any remorse.

“Maurer had many choices on January 6, 2021 other than to attack police officers who were defending the United States Capitol,” she wrote. “His crimes were not motivated by necessity, abuse, neglect, or addiction, but instead by anger that his preferred candidate lost an election.”"

 

Clearwater, FL man found guilty of felony charge of obstructing law enforcement officers at Capitol riot.


FL Man Found Guilty Of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Riot Charge: U.S. DOJ

 

The Tampa area again.

 

Considering the amount of pathological support has has there, Trump should build a mansion in Tampa and live there.

Musk could live at one location and Trump at the other. They would occupy both the east and west coasts of Florida.

 

Ending remote work is one approach Musk is considering to reduce the federal work force.


Elon Musk's budget crusade could cause a constitutional clash in Trump's second term

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"Other plans are more ambitious and could reshape the federal government. The two wrote that they would “identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions,” leading to “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy.”

Civil service protections wouldn’t apply, they argue, because they wouldn’t be targeting specific people for political purposes.

Some employees could choose “voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.” But others would be encouraged to quit by mandating that they show up at the office five days a week, ending pandemic-era flexibility about remote work. The requirement “would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.”

Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said such cutbacks would harm services for Americans who rely on the federal government, and he suggested that Musk and Ramaswamy were in over their heads.

“I don’t think they’re even remotely qualified to perform those duties,” he said. “That’s my main concern.”"

 

Trump has his personal Deep State $250 billion Elon Musk and other billionaires available to start up PACs to 'primary' members of Congress out of existence who don't obey Trump.

Musk is right there at Mar-a-Lago day after day during the transition and will have a formal position within Trump's administration.

Trump and his supporters don't seem to have any issues with this type of personal Deep State.