Matt Gaetz is Trump's pick for Attorney General - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump has long signaled his view of the Justice Department's importance to his priorities, and Vice President-elect JD Vance has called the attorney general's job the second-most critical in government.
48% : As a lawmaker, Gaetz, a graduate of William & Mary Law School, has used his perch on the House Judiciary Committee to excoriate FBI and Justice Department leadership, particularly over investigations involving Trump.
43% : "Trump has long complained that his past attorneys general fell far short of his expectations, setting an ambitious agenda for battling what he calls "Deep State" operatives at the department in his second term.
34% : Trump passed over several more conventional candidates who had emerged in recent days, including Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, a conservative whose nomination would have been far better received in the chamber.
34% : "In recent days, Trump had considered a number of possible candidates, but did not seem to settle on any of them, including the attorney general of Missouri, Andrew Bailey, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal deliberations.
28% : Like so many in the president-elect's circle, Gaetz was once a critic of Trump.
25% : The president-elect also listed grievances he suggested Gaetz address as attorney general, key among them the multiple investigations into Trump -- the "Russia Hoax, and exposing alarming and systemic Government Corruption and Weaponization," he wrote.
23% : Trump has said he wants to see changes to what he calls the "corrupt" courts overseeing foreign intelligence surveillance.
20% : It is "a shocking harbinger that Trump will try to subjugate the Justice Department to his political will," he said.
10% : Trump made his announcement on Truth Social, stating that part of Gaetz's job would be to root out "systemic corruption at DOJ, and return the Department to its true mission of fighting Crime.

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