Trump's genius reason for picking accused sex pest Matt Gaetz

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : For even if he were to be confirmed as AG by the Senate, there is little likelihood that he'd know how to run the department well enough to accomplish the things Trump wants.
52% : All of which must have been known to Trump before he selected Gaetz.
44% : This all raises the question: Why would Trump tap such a man to be the nation's chief law-enforcement officer?
35% : Some of those senators are up for re-election in 2026; Trump isn't.
32% : The Justice Department, founded in 1870, is also an enormous bureaucracy that can stymie a chief executive - and Trump ran on a series of ambitious and controversial pledges to begin mass deportations, restore strict law and order, rein in the FBI and severely slim down the civil service.
26% : And finally, and perhaps most likely, if the Senate did go forward with confirmation hearings and then shoot down Gaetz's nomination, Trump will be setting himself against his own party's senators.
25% : Trump is reportedly now calling senators to lobby for Gaetz, while simultaneously pushing to bypass the Congress altogether.
24% : Trump and his allies are encouraging the Senate to take an extended recess so that he can make 'recess appointments' - a constitutional loophole through which a president can fill administration vacancies if Congress is out of session.
23% : It seems Trump has chosen Gaetz for one reason: To reform the Justice Department from within.
23% : Yes, Trump may have his reasons for wanting a disruptive attorney general.
17% : Joe Biden's attorney general unleashed all manner of crazy woke lawsuits and oversaw the appointment of the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, who charged Trump in two criminal cases.
15% : After Trump announced his AG pick last week, Gaetz resigned from the House early, perhaps to prevent the release of a pending Ethics Committee report into the allegations against him.
8% : After Trump backed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker, Gaetz nearly handed the House to Democrats by leading a rebellion that later ousted McCarthy from the speaker's chair.

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