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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources — Trump tapped Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the new attorney general. — Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2024.
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Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general — Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says he's open to subpoenaing the House Ethics Committee for information about Trump's pick. Others say the confirmation process will bring things to light.
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Politico:
Playbook: Trump floods the zone with new appointees — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — TALK OF THIS TOWN — Michael Schaffer's latest Capital City column: “The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It's Tuning Out: The first Trump …
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Gaetz Begins Lobbying Lawmakers, Hoping He Hasn't Burned All the Bridges — MATT GAETZ EARNED A REPUTATION IN CONGRESS as an acid-tongued, anti-establishment knife fighter who didn't come to Washington to make friends. — But now Gaetz wants to become the next attorney general of the United States.
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump moves to burn down the rule of law — His cabinet nominations are obscene and augur dark days to come. … 🌎 — When the sordid history of the second Trump administration is written, should we all survive that long, it will be difficult to sort out which of his early cabinet picks were the most atrocious.
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump picks ex-congressman Doug Collins for veterans affairs secretary — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to nominate former Representative Doug Collins for secretary of veterans affairs. — “We must take care of our brave men and women in uniform …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump looks to bypass Senate for polarizing Cabinet picks
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Ben Domenech / The Transom:
Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That
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New York Times:
Trump Transition Live Updates: Some in G.O.P. Balk at Choice of Gaetz for Attorney General
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Washington Post:
Republican senators say Matt Gaetz has ‘steep’ climb to nomination
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Denver Post:
Gov. Jared Polis cheers RFK Jr.'s nomination for health post despite anti-vaccine statements — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday cheered anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the nation's top public health agency, highlighting the controversial nominee's stances on “big pharma” and “corporate ag.”
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Politico:
Trump to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS — The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism. — President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
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Benjamin Mazer / The Atlantic:
The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.
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CNN:
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
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Jeongyoon Han / NPR:
Trump picks RFK Jr. to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin signals willingness to back Biden's final push on judges … - Manchin told Axios that “we're in different times right now” when asked about his previous pledge, adding that “my Republican friends are under the microscope.” … - Manchin's vote is critical …
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Senate Democrats caught flat-footed by GOP anti-trans attacks
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation — Sources say Donald Trump's transition team leadership met with the former Fox News host, who is a left-field pick to head the Department of Defense, about the claims on Thursday.
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Elon Musk Met With Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say — The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States. — Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump …
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Marc Bennetts / The Times:
Trump's intelligence chief pick Tulsi Gabbard is 'Russia's girlfriend' — Ukraine accused the president-elect's choice for cabinet of being on the Kremlin's payroll — Donald Trump's pick for US national intelligence chief was accused by Ukraine of being on the Kremlin's payroll after the start of Russia's invasion.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Curious Case of Tulsi Gabbard: Is She a Russian Asset or a Dupe?
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Lachlan Cartwright / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage — Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast. — The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election.
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It's Tuning Out. — The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage. This time, not so much. — In the weeks before the 2024 election, no media platform had more catnip for Donald Trump's detractors than the Drudge Report.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon Threatens Ari Melber, Says Matt Gaetz's DOJ Is Coming For Him And ‘All The Producers of MSNBC’ — Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon told MSNBC's Ari Melber and “all you hosts” and producers at the network that they had better “lawyer up” because Matt Gaetz's Justice Department would soon be coming for them.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair … - David Axelrod, who steered Barack Obama's campaigns and is a friend of Emanuel, floated earlier this week that the combative and energetic Emanuel would be an ideal leader for a deflated party. — “If they said, 'Well, what should we do?
Sam Sutton / Politico:
The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump — Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming. — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could not sell voters on the strength of the economy.
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