One of his most loyal ideological allies. The President-elect of the United States, Republican Donald Trump, announced on Wednesday that he would nominate hard-line Rep. Matt Gaetz as the country’s next attorney general. The Florida congressman is loyal to Trump, thrives on controversy and has been investigated by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct and embezzlement.
Since his arrival in Washington, this lawmaker has forged a political image as a far-right provocateur, seeking controversy as something natural.
Like Donald Trump, to whom he is fiercely loyal, Gaetz is more interested in confronting his political opponents than in the dry task of governing, according to his detractors. At the Capitol, he repeatedly disrupted House proceedings, even breaking into a high-security facility where Democrats were holding a hearing.
In 2018 he was convicted for inviting a Holocaust denier from the Holocaust to Trump’s State of the Union address. A year later, he hired a speechwriter who had left the Trump administration after speaking at a conference that regularly attracts white nationalists.
Months after the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, Gaetz embarked on an “America First” tour with far-right Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during which they amplified the former’s lies. president on fraud in the 2020 US election. also continued to attack Republicans critical of Trump, using language that reportedly alarmed McCarthy, who feared the lawmakers’ remarks could incite violence. violence.
