‘No! No! No!’ CNN’s Mark Preston Derides Anyone Who Thinks Trump Suffered ‘Big Loss’ By Losing Gaetz Nomination

CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston was emphatic that losing the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general was not “a big loss” for President-elect Donald Trump, at least “if you understand politics.”

Gaetz announced Thursday that he was withdrawing his name from consideration as Attorney General after CNN contacted him for comment about a new allegation regarding a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old girl. The bombshell came after intense whipping by Trump and his allies.

On Friday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, Preston told anchor Pamela Brown that despite what “people in social media” say, Trump did not blow a lot of political capital on Gaetz:

PRESTON: You know, we’ve spent the last couple of weeks, as we have for every previous administration, where we talked through the qualifications for some of these folks that would be going into these positions. The reality is where we are right now is that you don’t necessarily need to be qualified.

I’m not saying that Pam — like Pam Bondi is qualified, right? There are certainly people that are qualified in, you know, Marco Rubio as well as somebody else. However, you are still putting people into positions that are just going to parrot what you want. So I know there’s all this outrage from MAGA World saying Matt Gaetz didn’t get through. It doesn’t matter. As I said yesterday, it could have been Matt Gaetz, Matt Barnes, Matt Thompson, it could have been any kind of Matt as long as the person — person does what Donald Trump wants him to do with the DOJ.

BROWN: Did he squander any political capital with Matt Gaetz?

PRESTON: No, no, no! And — and I got to tell you, like I have — I have certainly seen this, what it has people in social media, certainly those on the left are saying big loss, big loss, not a big loss at all. I mean, come on, if you understand politics, it is not a big loss. What it does show, though, is that the United States Senate will push back a little bit when they absolutely have to.

Matt Gaetz was one of those people where you absolutely have to. Those allegations are brutal. They are awful. I don’t know how he could have ever led the Justice Department given what he is facing right now. But the fact of the matter is Donald Trump is going to get what Donald Trump is going to get.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom.