President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to nominate Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general raised a number of concerns among Fox News hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade during their Thursday morning segment.
Gaetz resigned from his House seat immediately after being named the nominee on Wednesday, a move which many have speculated was due to a highly damaging House Committee report which was set to soon be released. Gaetz resigning only two days before the date this was supposed to happen theoretically allowed the matter to be tabled indefinetely.
Doocy claimed, though, that the story would still come out in time.
“The report has been written, apparently, and Washington, D.C. leaks like a sieve. And you can bet, dollar to donuts, if he is…undergoes the confirmation hearing process as is standard, somebody is going to read verbatim from whatever it says,” Doocy said.
Ainsley Earhardt intervened to suggest that Gaetz and Trump may be able to establish a connection due to the investigations into their conduct, while Lawrence Jones contended that a disclosure would be advantageous to Gaetz.
However Kilmeade noted that the report “was going to come out if he stayed in the House.”
“Within a week,” Doocy remarked.
“Yeah, it was within a week. So we know this, The Wall Street Journal said bad choice. Senator Joni Ernst says he’s got a lot of work to do. Senator Lisa Murkowski says not a serious candidate. So we’ll see.” Kilmeade said.
Later in the program, the presenters revisited the subject, with Kilmeade accusing Gaetz of having “terribly” managed the ouster of former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. He then escalated his criticism of the former congressman.
“The other thing is, I always thought when there was-, when Susie Wiles took the job [of chief of staff] you heard, she says, one thing I’D said is I don’t want to see any of the clown car. I always thought Matt Gaetz was in the clown car, so I’m surprised he’d be part of the starting lineup,” Kilmeade concluded.
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