{"id":2370730,"date":"2024-11-19T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-making-personal-phone-calls-to-vouch-for-gaetz-nomination-reports-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:48:29","slug":"trump-making-personal-phone-calls-to-vouch-for-gaetz-nomination-reports-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-making-personal-phone-calls-to-vouch-for-gaetz-nomination-reports-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump making personal phone calls to vouch for Gaetz nomination: Reports &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-making-personal-phone-calls-to-vouch-for-gaetz-nomination-reports-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President\u200c Donald Trump is\u2063 actively seeking support for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-delivers-thune-his-first-big-test-as-senate-gop-leader-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump delivers Thune his first big test as Senate GOP leader - Washington Examiner\">controversial cabinet nominee<\/a>, Matt Gaetz,\u2064 for the position of Attorney General. Trump has been personally\u2063 phoning Republican senators to \u2063advocate for Gaetz, who has faced scrutiny due \u2063to past investigations\u200d related to sex trafficking \u2063and allegations of unethical behavior. Senators including Lisa Murkowski, John Cornyn, and Susan\u2062 Collins have expressed concerns regarding Gaetz&#8217;s nomination, leaving Trump needing their \u200bapproval given the narrow Republican majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz \u2062is also directly\u200b reaching out to senators in an effort to secure votes. While some members support his\u200d nomination, others are cautious and believe that a forthcoming House Ethics report is crucial for\u2063 assessing his suitability. House Speaker Mike Johnson has expressed opposition to releasing \u200dthe report,\u2063 citing potential repercussions. The situation is complicated\u2063 by the \u2062ongoing investigations and concerns about Gaetz&#8217;s past conduct, leading to uncertainty about whether he will be confirmed for the position.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump making personal phone calls to vouch for Gaetz nomination: Reports<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1885057\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">personally making moves<\/a> to shore up support for one of his more controversial Cabinet nominations: former Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Matt-Gaetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Matt Gaetz<\/a> for attorney general.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump is reportedly calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Republican senators<\/a> to discuss Gaetz and ask for their support. At least three Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Susan Collins (R-ME), have publicly expressed concern about the nomination and have not said if they would confirm him. With the Senate likely having a three-seat Republican majority, Trump would need them on board.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Trump] clearly wants Matt Gaetz,&rdquo; Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who received a call from Trump, told <em>Axios<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/18\/trump-gaetz-confirmation-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reported<\/a> the phone calls. &ldquo;He believes Matt Gaetz is the one person who will have the fearlessness and ferociousness, really, to do what needs doing at the Department of Justice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz has also been calling Senate Republicans. Five Republican senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3234179\/matt-gaetz-senate-republicans-fair-shake-attorney-general-confirmation-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> they have received a call from Gaetz since being nominated last week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh, I think Congressman Gaetz has reached out to everybody,&rdquo; said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. &ldquo;I mean, it would be malpractice for anybody in the White House to advise anything but &lsquo;call every member on the R side.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of Gaetz&rsquo;s past behavior, including being federally investigated for sex trafficking and a House Ethics Committee investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sunny-hostin-trump-made-the-republican-party-morally-bankrupt\/\" title=\"Sunny Hostin: Trump Made The Republican Party \u2018Morally Bankrupt\u2019\">alleged sexual relations<\/a> with underage girls and illicit drug use, have some senators hesitant to support Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>Many Senate Republicans believe the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3233045\/house-ethics-panel-meet-wednesday-gaetz-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Ethics report<\/a> is essential to vetting him for the critical post, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he does not favor the release of the report. He said releasing it would open &ldquo;Pandora&rsquo;s box.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do I think a report, if it exists, should be released? And the answer is no because we have a rule on that,&rdquo; Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3233852\/matt-gaetz-report-ethics-committee-partisan-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said on Monday at the Capitol<\/a>. There have been two other instances in recent years in which members who resigned from Congress had their own ethics investigations released after their resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The top Democrat on the Ethics Committee, Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/18\/politics\/trump-senators-matt-gaetz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told reporters<\/a> that &ldquo;everybody on the committee now has the report, so they&rsquo;ve got the opportunity to be reviewing it.&rdquo; Johnson, however, told CNN on Sunday that the report is &ldquo;not finished&rdquo; and is only in &ldquo;rough draft form.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is plenty of precedence in the Ethics Committee to disclose the report even after a member has resigned,&rdquo; Wild said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing, but lawyers representing the alleged victims have said<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/lawyer-tells-abc-news-2-clients-told-house\/story?id=115863675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> in recent days<\/a> that at least two women testified to the committee that Gaetz paid them for sex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, who has not left Trump&rsquo;s side since the election two weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1858768057256088021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">posted<\/a> on social media that he views the allegations as &ldquo;worth less than nothing.&rdquo; Trump has shown no sign of withdrawing the nomination, which he views as crucial to the goals of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unlikely that any Senate Democrats would grow favorable to Gaetz enough to vote on his confirmation. 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Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Gaetz is the &ldquo;least qualified person and most radical person ever nominated to be Attorney General.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1885057\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1885057\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is calling GOP senators to support Gaetz&#8217;s nomination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2370731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaetz-trump-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3624,9134,3634],"class_list":["post-2370730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gaetz","tag-nomination","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaetz-trump-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370734,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370730\/revisions\/2370734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}