Trump on Gaetz’s retreatal: ‘He was doing very well but … did not want to be a distraction’
Donald Trump has freed a statement on Matt Gaetz’s attorney vague nomination retreatal, saying on Truth Social:
I fantasticly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be attorney vague.
He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the administration, for which he has much admire. Matt has a wonderful future, and I see forward to watching all of the fantastic slfinishergs he will do!
Gaetz inestablishedly adviseed Trump tardy Thursday morning that he will be retreating his nomination, ABC inestablishs, citing sources recognizable with the matter.
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I fantasticly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be attorney vague.
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He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the administration, for which he has much admire. Matt has a wonderful future, and I see forward to watching all of the fantastic slfinishergs he will do!
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Gaetz inestablishedly adviseed Trump tardy Thursday morning that he will be retreating his nomination, ABC inestablishs, citing sources recognizable with the matter.
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Matt Gaetz has retreatn his name from ponderation as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney vague, saying his “verifyation was ununpartipartner becoming a distraction to the critical toil of the Trump/Vance Transition”.
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In a filled statement on Thursday, Gaetz, who has been swept in a series of relationsual allegation controversies and whose nomination has obtaind widespread reaction from Democrats and establisher White Hoemploy officials, shelp:
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“I had excellent greetings with senators yesterday. I appreciate their attentive feedback – and the incredible help of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my verifyation was ununpartipartner becoming a distraction to the critical toil of the Trump/Vance Transition.
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There is no time to squander on a insistlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be retreating my name from ponderation to serve as attorney vague. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1. I remain filledy promiseted to see that Donald J. Trump is the most accomplished Plivent in history. I will forever be honored that Plivent Trump nominated me to direct the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America.”
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Pete Hegseth, who get tod on Capitol Hill moments ago ahead of his visit with JD Vance and Reuncoveran senators, has repeated his denial of the 2017 relationsual attack allegations agetst him.
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Addressing inestablishers on Thursday morning, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary shelp:
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“As far as the media is worryed, it’s very straightforward. The matter was filledy spendigated, and I was finishly cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna exit it.”
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Speaking to ABC, Illinois Democratic senator and reexhausted army national protect lieutenant colonel Tammy Duckworth denounced Pete Hegseth’s belief that women should not perestablish in a combat role.
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Duckworth, who is a combat veteran of the Iraq war where she served as a army helicselecter pilot before losing both legs during an strike in 2004, shelp:
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“Obviously I have my personal opinions but as a US senator, my job will be to resettle whether or not he is qualified to be secretary of defense, and frankly, it shows me that he’s not becaemploy he doesn’t understand the genuineities of up-to-date combat.
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We’re not talking about the Revolutionary War, where there’s a line behind which … this is combat and that’s not combat. If you were in the green zone … Baghdad, you were in a combat zone, whether you were a helicselecter pilot enjoy myself or a truck driver, which, by the way, is a job that women have been doing since world war one. So it equitable showed me that he repartner doesn’t understand up-to-date combat and is therefore not qualified to be secretary of defense.”
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A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s transition shelp that the police inestablish “corroborates what Mr [Pete] Hegseth’s attorney’s have shelp all aextfinished”, the Associated Press inestablishs.
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“The incident was filledy spendigated and no indicts were filed becaemploy police set up the allegations to be dishonest,” the spokesperson shelp.
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The inestablish, however, does not state that Monterey police set up the allegations to be dishonest. The offence code in the inestablish was enumerateed as “violation: victim unconscious of the nature of the act”.
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The inestablish finished with the inestablishing police officer writing, “I recommfinish this case inestablish be forwarded to the Monterey county dicut offe attorney’s office for appraise.”
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The scruminuscule around Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, grows as police unveiled an spendigative inestablish into the establisher Fox News arrange that further detailed the relationsual attack allegations surrounding him.
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The 22-page inestablish freed by police dates back to 12 October 2017. It integrates allegations from a woman who telderly police that she was relationsupartner attacked by Hegseth after drinking at a hotel bar in Monterey, California chaseing a Reuncoveran women’s event where Hegseth spoke. According to the inestablish, Hegseth attacked the woman after he took her phone, blocked the door to a hotel room and obstructed her from leaving.
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The police inestablish’s free chases recent novels of “a detailed memo” on the alleged attack which a frifinish of the accemployr sent to the Trump transition team. Hegseth has insisted the come atraverse was consensual but phelp the woman an ununderstandn sum after she signed a nondisclocertain concurment.
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Emerging details of the alleged attack come as Hegseth is set to visit Capitol Hill today. The establisher Fox arrange is awaited to greet with JD Vance and Reuncoveran senators ahead of his verifyation process.
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Here are other growments in US politics:
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The Senate has declineed Bernie Sanders’ effort to block arms sales to Israel which the Vermont senator begind out of worrys over the mass finishings of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Joe Biden is set to sign the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act today which will reapexhibit the national research, observation and consciousness program on heart disease.
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Trump is awaited to pick Johns Hopkins sadviseon Martin Makary – who elevated worrys about various uncover health publishs including opposing vaccine mandates – as head of the Food and Drug Administration.
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The reactions to Matt Gaetz’s surpelevate retreatal of his attorney vague nomination are coming in.
First up is California’s Democratic reconshort-termative Eric Swalwell, who took to X and wrote:
“As I shelp repeatedly last week, Matt Gaetz is never, ever becoming Attorney General.
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Matt Gaetz retreats as nominee for attorney vague in Trump administration
Matt Gaetz has retreatn his name from ponderation as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney vague, saying his “verifyation was ununpartipartner becoming a distraction to the critical toil of the Trump/Vance Transition”.
In a filled statement on Thursday, Gaetz, who has been swept in a series of relationsual allegation controversies and whose nomination has obtaind widespread reaction from Democrats and establisher White Hoemploy officials, shelp:
“I had excellent greetings with senators yesterday. I appreciate their attentive feedback – and the incredible help of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my verifyation was ununpartipartner becoming a distraction to the critical toil of the Trump/Vance Transition.
There is no time to squander on a insistlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be retreating my name from ponderation to serve as attorney vague. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1. I remain filledy promiseted to see that Donald J. Trump is the most accomplished Plivent in history. I will forever be honored that Plivent Trump nominated me to direct the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America.”
Hegseth on 2017 relationsual attack allegations: ‘I was finishly cleared’
Pete Hegseth, who get tod on Capitol Hill moments ago ahead of his visit with JD Vance and Reuncoveran senators, has repeated his denial of the 2017 relationsual attack allegations agetst him.
Addressing inestablishers on Thursday morning, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary shelp:
“As far as the media is worryed, it’s very straightforward. The matter was filledy spendigated, and I was finishly cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna exit it.”
The New York Democratic reconshort-termative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at South Carolina’s Reuncoveran reconshort-termative Nancy Mace over her trys to prohibit trans people from using bathrooms on Capitol Hill that align their gfinisher identity.
The Guardian’s Anna Betts inestablishs:
The novel recut offeions, begind by Reuncoveran reconshort-termative Nancy Mace and helped by the GOP speaker of the Hoemploy, Mike Johnson, prohibits transgfinisher people, including congressional members, officers and employees, from using the individual-relations bathrooms and other facilities in the Capitol and Hoemploy office createings that correply to their gfinisher identity.
The effort aims Democrat Sarah McBride, the first out transgfinisher person elected to the US Hoemploy of Reconshort-termatives from Delconscious, who is set to consent office in January.
In a press intersee on Wednesday evening, Ocasio-Cortez stood up for McBride and denounced Mace and the Reuncoveran lawcreaters backing the bill, inestablishing inestablishers that the gived recut offeions are “finishangering all women and girls”.
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In an MSNBC intersee set to air this weekfinish, establisher plivent Bill Clinton shelp the Democratic party has to “lget to talk to people in ways they can retardy to.”
Speaking to the outlet chaseing the Democrats’ loss to Donald Trump and the Reuncoveran party during plivential election, Clinton – who campaigned for Kamala Harris – shelp:
“Politics is the only business in which you can show your truth by not understanding anyslfinisherg… I slfinisherk that’s a problem and we’ll pay for it unless we get over it, but that’s a problem for the Democrats too.
We have to lget to talk to people in ways that they can retardy to that elucidates that. That’s why…I did my best to help this time. I don’t want to go to any huge rallies and huge television slfinishergs. I equitable wanted to get in the country.
Just go out and talk to people becaemploy I slfinisherk that we’re behind in the sense that a lot of the minuscule-town and country people are now highly cultured and how they get their adviseation. And there are zillions of novel websites now all trying to progress their sort of conservative to right-thriveg radical caemploy. And a lot of times we’re not perestablishing on the same field and we’re not even being heard. So I equitable shelp, sfinish me out there and I’ll see if I can do some excellent. I have no idea if I did, but I tried.”
Illinois senator and army veteran Tammy Duckworth: Hegseth ‘not qualified’ to be defense secretary
Speaking to ABC, Illinois Democratic senator and reexhausted army national protect lieutenant colonel Tammy Duckworth denounced Pete Hegseth’s belief that women should not perestablish in a combat role.
Duckworth, who is a combat veteran of the Iraq war where she served as a army helicselecter pilot before losing both legs during an strike in 2004, shelp:
“Obviously I have my personal opinions but as a US senator, my job will be to resettle whether or not he is qualified to be secretary of defense, and frankly, it shows me that he’s not becaemploy he doesn’t understand the genuineities of up-to-date combat.
We’re not talking about the Revolutionary War, where there’s a line behind which … this is combat and that’s not combat. If you were in the green zone … Baghdad, you were in a combat zone, whether you were a helicselecter pilot enjoy myself or a truck driver, which, by the way, is a job that women have been doing since world war one. So it equitable showed me that he repartner doesn’t understand up-to-date combat and is therefore not qualified to be secretary of defense.”
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – heads of the novelly established Department of Government Efficiency – have proposeed that Donald Trump could insist rulement employees to toil in the office five days a week as part of reducing the federal toilforce.
The Guardian’s Sam Levine inestablishs:
“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we receive: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in a Wednesday op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Trump has tapped both men to direct the novelly created department of rulement efficiency.
The two men, who have no prior experience in rulement, also proposeed Trump would underconsent “huge-scale firings” and transfer rulement agencies outside of Washington.
Musk insists employees at SpaceX and Tesla to toil in person and has portrayd it as a moral publish.
“People should get off the goddamn moral high horse with the toil-from-home bullshit,” he shelp in 2023.
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Trump transition team says 2017 inestablish ‘corroborates’ what Hegseth attorneys have shelp
A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s transition shelp that the police inestablish “corroborates what Mr [Pete] Hegseth’s attorney’s have shelp all aextfinished”, the Associated Press inestablishs.
“The incident was filledy spendigated and no indicts were filed becaemploy police set up the allegations to be dishonest,” the spokesperson shelp.
The inestablish, however, does not state that Monterey police set up the allegations to be dishonest. The offence code in the inestablish was enumerateed as “violation: victim unconscious of the nature of the act”.
The inestablish finished with the inestablishing police officer writing, “I recommfinish this case inestablish be forwarded to the Monterey county dicut offe attorney’s office for appraise.”
According to the inestablish, the woman, identified as Jane Doe, “stated she watchd Pete Hegseth acting inappropriately” with women at the conference, inserting that he telderly her she was a “kind guy”.
The inestablish stated:
“Hegseth would rub the women on their legs and Jane Doe thought that his actions were inappropriate. Jane Doe had texted [redacted] that Hegseth was giving off a ‘creeper’ vibe. The women thought Hegseth was ‘dreamy’ and wanted pictures with Hegseth. Jane Doe stated she had also consentn a picture with Hegseth, earlier in the day …”
The inestablish went on to insert:
“Jane Doe stated she recalled walking out of the bar and supposed Hegseth chaseed her becaemploy she argued with Hegseth cforfeit the pool. The argument was about Hegseth’s actions with the women at the conference. Jane Doe recalled Hegseth inestablish her that he was a kind guy.
Jane Doe stated the next memory she had was when she was in an ununderstandn room. Jane Doe did not understand where she was and how she got to the room. Hegseth was in the room with her. Jane Doe recalled having her phone and Hegseth inquired to whom Jane Doe was texting. Hegseth took her phone from her hands. Jane Doe stated she got up and tried to exit the room, but Hegseth blocked the door with his body. Jane Doe recalled saying ‘no’ a lot. Jane Doe stated she did not recall much else.”
The woman then recalled being on a bed or a couch with Hegseth over her, with his dog tags hovering over her shirt. She inserted that she saw Hegseth “filledy unclothed” during this incident.
According to the woman, her next memory was when Hegseth ejacutardyd on her stomach before throthriveg a towel at her and asking, “Are you okay?”
The woman’s last memory is of her walking into her room. She telderly the police that she did not recall how she got back to her room.
Pete Hegseth to visit Capitol as details from 2017 relationsual attack inestablish materialize
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The scruminuscule around Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, grows as police unveiled an spendigative inestablish into the establisher Fox News arrange that further detailed the relationsual attack allegations surrounding him.
The 22-page inestablish freed by police dates back to 12 October 2017. It integrates allegations from a woman who telderly police that she was relationsupartner attacked by Hegseth after drinking at a hotel bar in Monterey, California chaseing a Reuncoveran women’s event where Hegseth spoke. According to the inestablish, Hegseth attacked the woman after he took her phone, blocked the door to a hotel room and obstructed her from leaving.
The police inestablish’s free chases recent novels of “a detailed memo” on the alleged attack which a frifinish of the accemployr sent to the Trump transition team. Hegseth has insisted the come atraverse was consensual but phelp the woman an ununderstandn sum after she signed a nondisclocertain concurment.
Emerging details of the alleged attack come as Hegseth is set to visit Capitol Hill today. The establisher Fox arrange is awaited to greet with JD Vance and Reuncoveran senators ahead of his verifyation process.
Here are other growments in US politics:
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The Senate has declineed Bernie Sanders’ effort to block arms sales to Israel which the Vermont senator begind out of worrys over the mass finishings of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Joe Biden is set to sign the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act today which will reapexhibit the national research, observation and consciousness program on heart disease.
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Trump is awaited to pick Johns Hopkins sadviseon Martin Makary – who elevated worrys about various uncover health publishs including opposing vaccine mandates – as head of the Food and Drug Administration.
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