11/13/2024

Matt Gaetz Selected as Nation's New Attorney General

His selection is an unexpected move

President-elect Donald Trump continued his flurry of personnel announcements on Wednesday by naming Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida as his pick for attorney general, a surprise decision to make one of his fiercest defenders as his nominee for the country's top law enforcement official.

The announcement came as Trump made a return to the seat of American power that he begrudgingly left four years ago, meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office and observing a decades-old tradition he himself defied four years ago when he refused to accept his actual 2020 loss.

Republicans are poised to carry out what Trump has vowed will be a sweeping agenda.

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