Top Democrat on Senate judiciary committee calls for sharing of ethics report on Gaetz
Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate judiciary committee, has called on the House ethics committee to share its report into Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general who resigned his seat in Congress yesterday.
The judiciary committee is tasked with holding hearings into nominees to lead the justice department, but Gaetz will only come before the body next year, when the GOP takes control of the Senate after winning a majority in last week’s elections.
In a statement, Durbin said:
In light of Donald Trump’s selection of former congressman Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, I am calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the Senate Judiciary Committee. The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report. We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people. Make no mistake: this information could be relevant to the question of Mr. Gaetz’s confirmation as the next attorney general of the United States and our constitutional responsibility of advice and consent.
Gaetz’s resignation from the House yesterday could prevent the ethics committee from releasing its investigation into sexual misconduct and drug use by Gaetz. Yesterday, Punchbowl News reported that it was expected to soon do so, before Gaetz resigned.
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“We have to deliver for the people, and we will,” the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, told Fox News last week. “President Trump wants to be aggressive. He wants to go big and we’re excited about that. We’re going to get to play offense.”
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Trump’s selection of at least three House Republicans to join his administration further complicates the math for Johnson. Trump had already tapped the New York representative Elise Stefanik to serve as ambassador to the United Nations and Mike Waltz, the Florida representative, to fill the role of national security adviser. On Wednesday, Trump announced he would also nominate Matt Gaetz, the Republican congressman of Florida, as his attorney general.
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Donald Trump’s decision to nominate the far-right Republican congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general has sent shockwaves through Washington, including the president-elect’s own party.
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Trump on Wednesday announced Gaetz as his pick to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer in the justice department, a role that directs the government’s legal positions on critical issues, including abortion, civil rights, and first amendment cases.
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Republicans were puzzled over this nomination, expressing this move was not on their “bingo card”.
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“I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for the attorney general,” Republican senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, told NBC News. She added:
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We need to have a serious attorney general. And I’m looking forward to the opportunity to consider somebody that is serious. This one was not on my bingo card.”
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A rightwing firebrand, Gaetz was a thorn in the side of his fellow Republican and former House speaker Kevin McCarthy, eventually leading the successful charge to oust McCarthy from his role.
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He was investigated by the justice department in a sex-trafficking case, though the department ultimately declined to bring charges. And was under investigation by the House ethics committee amid allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and other alleged ethical breaches.
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Gaetz has fiercely denied wrongdoing.
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In other developments:
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Republicans have secured a majority in the US House of Representatives, extending their hold on the lower chamber and delivering a governing trifecta in Washington that could give Trump sweeping power to enact his legislative agenda.
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Trump also announced his nominee for director of national intelligence would be Tulsi Gabbard, who is a critic of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and has questioned atrocities attributed to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Gabbard has previously clashed with Marco Rubio, who Trump on Wednesday confirmed would be nominated as secretary of state. The new appointments followed Trump’s announcement of Peter Hegseth for defense in a move that stunned military officials, some of whom questioned whether Hegseth had the experience to manage a government department with a budget of more than $800bn.
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Republican senators chose South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, rejecting a challenge from Florida senator Rick Scott, who had the backing of key Maga figures Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. Thune’s elevation comes after long-serving Mitch McConnell stood aside.
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Joe Biden met Trump at the White House, extending a courtesy to the president-elect that Biden was not offered in 2020 when Trump refused to acknowledge Biden’s election victory. Trump thanked Biden for welcoming him back to the Oval Office and said: “Politics is tough, and it’s (in) many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today.”
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The president-elect met with House Republicans before going to the White House, and joked about seeking a third term, which would be constitutionally prohibited after his second term.
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Wednesday’s appointments leave a handful of roles to fill in Trump’s cabinet. Reuters reported billionaire banker and co-chair of Trump’s transition team Howard Lutnick had emerged as a serious contender against investor Scott Bessent for the role of Treasury secretary, the highest profile job without a name yet attached.
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The Democratic minority leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, said his colleagues had “over-performed the national political environment”, pre-empting the news that Republicans had retained the chamber. Elizabeth Warren argued Democrats should show they stand ready to “unrig this economy” as billionaires join the Trump administration. Warren was appearing at an event alongside fellow senator Bernie Sanders.
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Two Democratic state governors have launched an initiative aimed at “pushing back against increasing threats of autocracy and fortifying the institutions of democracy”. The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, and the Colorado governor, Jared Polis, hope to form a non-partisan coalition with their new organisation, Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
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Dan Scavino, who on Tuesday suggested Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, was running out of time, has been named as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff. Scavino’s provocative post on X has continued to fuel Australian anxieties over its relationship with the incoming president, whom Rudd in 2021 described as “a village idiot” and “not a leading intellectual force”.
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Senior Republican senator joins calls for sharing of Gaetz ethics report
John Cornyn, a long-serving Republican senator from Texas who came in second in yesterday’s election to lead his conference, also wants to see the House ethics committee report into Matt Gaetz, Reuters reports:
Cornyn told reporters “there should not be any limitation” on the Senate’s investigation as lawmakers consider whether they should confirm Gaetz to head the Justice Department, “including whatever the House Ethics Committee has generated.”
When asked if that means he wants to see the ethics report, he replied: “Absolutely.”
The report investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use by Gaetz was reportedly days away from being released, before the congressman resigned his seat yesterday after Trump nominated for the post of attorney general. It is now unclear if it will ever be made public.
Cornyn is the second senator today to call for the document to be shared with the chamber, which is tasked with confirming a president’s cabinet appointments. Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the judiciary committee, made a similar demand minutes ago.
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CBS News reports that Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal says he knows of five to 10 of his Republican colleagues who will not vote to confirm Matt Gaetz as attorney general.
That would be enough to block the appointment, but weeks remain before the Senate will formally consider his appointment, and much could change between now and then.
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Whether or not Matt Gaetz becomes the next attorney general will be decided by Senate Republicans, who will take the majority in the chamber next year.
But in the House, Fox News reports that speaker Mike Johnson said he had no problems with Trump choosing Gaetz, who resigned his seat in Congress yesterday after receiving the offer.
I think President Trump and Matt Gaetz have had a close relationship for a long time. He respects his legal acumen … I think they decided that together it has to do more with Trump’s administration timing than anything else …
It’s not my decision. It’s the president’s decision. But Matt’s a colleague, and he’s someone who’s worked really hard against the weaponization of government, the lawfare that’s happened at DOJ. He’d be an instant reformer if given the position, and I understand the pick.
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Top Democrat on Senate judiciary committee calls for sharing of ethics report on Gaetz
Dick Durbin, the Democratic chair of the Senate judiciary committee, has called on the House ethics committee to share its report into Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general who resigned his seat in Congress yesterday.
The judiciary committee is tasked with holding hearings into nominees to lead the justice department, but Gaetz will only come before the body next year, when the GOP takes control of the Senate after winning a majority in last week’s elections.
In a statement, Durbin said:
In light of Donald Trump’s selection of former congressman Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, I am calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the Senate Judiciary Committee. The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report. We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people. Make no mistake: this information could be relevant to the question of Mr. Gaetz’s confirmation as the next attorney general of the United States and our constitutional responsibility of advice and consent.
Gaetz’s resignation from the House yesterday could prevent the ethics committee from releasing its investigation into sexual misconduct and drug use by Gaetz. Yesterday, Punchbowl News reported that it was expected to soon do so, before Gaetz resigned.
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Nikki Haley says she has no interest in serving in Trump’s cabinet
Nikki Haley was Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, and this year challenged him unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination.
After he won last week’s election, Trump announced that Haley would not be offered a post in his cabinet. On her SiriusXM radio show today, Haley offered a slightly different version of events – she told an advisor to the president-elect that she did not want a cabinet job:
I had no interest in being in his cabinet. He knew that. But to go a little further, his best friend, Steve Witkoff, came to our house in South Carolina, spoke to me and my husband, and basically wanted a truce between me and Donald Trump. And I told him at the time, there was no truce needed, that I had, that Trump had my support, there was no issue on my end. And at that point he was like, “What do you want? Tell me what you want. Is there anything you want?” And I said, “There’s nothing I want.” And there wasn’t anything I wanted.
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And the truth is, I know the game he was playing. I don’t need to play that game. But more importantly, we have to look at the bigger picture. It is time to move on. It is time for us to focus on what America needs to do to be strong again, what America needs to do to be safe. The American people have spoken and spoken very loudly, and at this point, we should pray that President Trump does well. We should pray that everyone that he appoints does well. We should hope for the sake of our kids and generations to follow us, that all of this goes forward. So, you know, do I take it personally? No. That’s who he is. He can be shallow at times and I think he showed that. But I don’t have to be shallow. And at the end of the day, I’m very comfortable with where I am, and I’m comfortable with what happened.
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Updated at 10.34 EST
Former national security adviser John Bolton calls for FBI to investigate Gaetz, Gabbard before confirmation
John Bolton, a former national security adviser under Donald Trump who has since fallen out with him, said the FBI should investigate both Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz before the Senate considers their nomination for cabinet posts.
Trump yesterday nominated Gaetz to serve as attorney general and Gabbard as director of national intelligence, drawing an outcry from Democrats and creating unease among Republicans. Gaetz, who immediately resigned his seat in the House, has been under investigation related to sexual misconduct and drug use, while Gabbard has been known for praising US adversaries like Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad.
In an interview with NewsNation, Bolton said:
I don’t think either she (Gabbard) or Matt Gaetz ought to have a confirmation hearing until they have both had full-field FBI investigation.
Given the Russian propaganda that she (Gabbard) has espoused … I think she’s a serious threat to our national security. I think Republican senators should reject both of them.
He was scathing about both Gabbard and Gaetz:
With his (Trump) announcement of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, he’s sending a signal that we’ve lost our mind when it comes to collecting intelligence.
Up until a few hours ago, I would have said that (Gabbard) was the worst Cabinet appointment in recent American history. Since Matt Gaetz’s nomination (to be attorney general), he clearly has taken the lead on that score.
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Updated at 10.22 EST
The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars in bankruptcy auction
Satire pioneers The Onion have bought InfoWars, the conspiracy theory promoting website that owner Alex Jones was forced to put up for auction after declaring bankruptcy following a lawsuit from the families of those killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.
The Onion announced the purchase in a typically sardonic column:
All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an easy one for the Global Tetrahedron executive board.
Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.
Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society – values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.
There is a far more sober backstory to the purchase, which the New York Times delves into:
The Onion said that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who in 2022 won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence that was founded in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, will sponsor a relaunched version of the site under The Onion.
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Ben Collins, the chief executive of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, said in an interview that he was informed late Wednesday by the trustee in charge of the bankruptcy auction that The Onion’s bid had prevailed. The trustee was expected to inform Mr. Jones of the result of the auction on Thursday morning.
The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars in January as a parody of itself, he said, mocking “weird internet personalities” like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements.
“We thought this would be a hilarious joke,” Mr. Collins said. “This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything’s kind of insane.”
Here’s more on Jones’s bankruptcy:
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Matt Gaetz is not the only objectionable nominee Donald Trump announced yesterday.
The president-elect also named former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence – which immediately set off alarm bells. She gained something of a reputation in Washington DC, after defending Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, even as his military stood accused of war crimes, and criticizing US allies like Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Among those concerned about Gabbard’s nomination was Democratic congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer who is expected to soon launch a campaign for Virginia’s governor. Here’s what she had to say, on X:
As a former CIA case officer, I saw the men and women of the U.S. intelligence community put their lives on the line every day for this country — and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to lead DNI.
Not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics in conspiracy theories and cozies up to dictators like Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin.
As a Member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am deeply concerned about what this nomination portends for our national security. My Republican colleagues with a backbone should speak out.
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Matt Gaetz was not known for passing much legislation in the House, but made a huge splash last year when he played a major role in the putsch that saw fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy removed as speaker.
Needless to say, McCarthy, who later resigned his seat, is very bitter over the whole episode. Earlier today, Bloomberg News reports that McCarthy predicted Gaetz would not get Senate confirmation as attorney general:
“Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the Barclays Asia Forum in Singapore on Thursday.
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“Doesn’t matter,” McCarthy said of the nomination’s prospects. “It’s a good deflection.”
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During their meeting at the White House yesterday, Joe Biden asked Donald Trump to work with him on a ceasefire deal that would see the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Axios reports.
The Biden administration has tried to negotiate such an agreement, as well as another deal to end Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, for months, with no luck. His time as president is running out, and the conflicts will become Trump’s problem once he takes office.
Here’s more, from Axios:
Biden wants to use the two months he has left in office to break the prolonged deadlock in the negotiations over a Gaza deal. Trump, on the other hand, would likely be happy to reach Inauguration Day with one less crisis on his plate.
Biden also met yesterday with the families of the American hostages who are held in Gaza, two sources with knowledge of the meeting told Axios.
One source said the families stressed that the hostages are running out of time and expressed concern for their lives.
Biden told the families that he and Trump agreed that the hostage issue is urgent and that they want to try and solve it before Jan. 20, the other source said.
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Joe Biden hosts Donald Trump at the White House
David Smith
Nancy Pelosi once said Donald Trump would be “fumigated out” of the Oval Office if he lost the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden relished describing him as “the former guy” and “loser”. They thought the American nightmare was over.
Then, like in the movies, Democrats woke up in a cold sweat only to realise it wasn’t a dream after all. Instead they are doomed to be supporting players in a sequel. Trump: The Revenge. This time, it’s personal.
On Wednesday, Trump made a triumphant who’s-got-the-last-laugh-now return to Washington, probably the least Trumpy place in the nation: Kamala Harris got 92.5% of the vote here compared to his 6.7%. One of his most recent visits was to appear in court as a criminal defendant accused of an attempted coup.
But hey, who cares about that now? Sporting his red tie, Trump was back in the sacred space where Pelosi, Liz Cheney and others swore he must never foot again: the Oval Office. The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president was hosted by Biden, the 46th, to discuss the presidential transition, a courtesy he never extended to the man who beat him in 2020.
The pair sat on cream armchairs before a roaring log fire – the flames licking high and lustily as if to evoke Christopher Marlowe’s line, “Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.” Behind Biden was the bust of Robert Kennedy, a former Democratic senator whose son, Robert Kennedy Jr, helped deliver the White House to the Republican Trump.
“Well, Mr president-elect and former president … ,” Biden began, shaking the right hand of Trump, whose left hand didn’t quite know what to do as he breathed: “Thank you very much, Joe.”
Biden settled on, “Donald, congratulations” – the first time he had used his rival’s first name since the attempted assassination of Trump in July.
“Thank you very much,” Trump repeated.
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