CNN’s Scott Jennings on Matt Gaetz pulling out as Trump’s AG nominee: “Well, I think it was probably right to do. I mean, this had a low probability of success from the beginning and the information that’s come out now made it even worse, so he did the right thing by President-Elect Trump, that’s for sure. I didn’t think he ever had a path to 50. And it didn’t — didn’t seem that he was ever going to get there. So, Trump deserves to be able to nominate someone who has a fighting chance of being confirmed. That obviously wasn’t happening with Gaetz. I mean, this transition though, is I said at the time, it’s entertaining. I mean, it has more twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan movie and now we’re going to get somebody else and we’ll see who that is. He had a list that he had before, and maybe he’ll go back to that.”
CNN’s Scott Jennings on what Trump will look for next in his pick to lead DOJ: “Oh, I think there’s several people who would be tenacious who see the world the way President Trump sees it, but just don’t carry the same amount of confirmation baggage that Gaetz obviously brought into this thing. So, of course, I mean, there’s a number of great choices, and I don’t think there’s any shortage of people who want to work for Donald Trump. I think he’s got all kinds of folks who are highly qualified for all these jobs, who are — would be more than happy to serve the American people in this, so I think he’ll have a good a good list to pick from. I do think this. He went out on a limb on this one and it got sawed off pretty quickly. My advice would be don’t do it again, you know, because if you nominate another person who starts below the line — I mean, that was the thing with Gaetz. He sort of always started below the line of any anywhere being near confirmable. If you do that again, you’re putting your party right back in the same position of having to fight to get above water.”
Sen. Markwayne Mullin praises Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth: “He’s a decorated combat veteran. He’s got two Bronze Stars, 20 years in service … The guy is a solid, solid individual. He’s the right man for the job.”
Alina Habba: “We need strong, America First people in the administration. We cannot have people weak in the knees. President Trump is picking every single person for the sole the purpose of cleaning up a mess very quickly.”
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Matt Gaetz pulling out as AG: low probability, entertaining, more twists & turns than movie