‘I Always Thought Matt Gaetz Was in the Clown Car’: Fox’s Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade Extremely Skeptical of Trump AG Nominee
Fox News’ Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade outlined a number of concerns on Thursday morning about President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to nominate Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general.
One point harped on by Doocy was that a House Ethics Committee report on an investigation into whether Gaetz “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct,” was likely to leak during the confirmation process.
Gaetz resigned his seat in the House after being announced as the nominee on Wednesday in order to stop the Committee from being able to officially release the already-written report, which Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman has suggested is “highly damaging.” But Doocy predicted that the report would come out anyway.
“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,” said Doocy.
Ainsley Earhardt jumped in to argue that Gaetz and Trump might be able to relate to one another over the investigations into their conduct and Lawrence Jones submitted that a leak would only help Gaetz, before Doocy cautioned them that, “We don’t know what is in the House Ethics report.”
Jones continued to argue that it would be wrong to leak the report before Kilmeade jumped in to note that “it was going to come out if he stayed in the House.”
“Within a week,” added Doocy.
“Yeah, it was within a week,” affirmed Kilmeade. “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 went on to bash Gaetz for being being “solely responsible for blowing up the House last year,” and having “no plan” to put it back together.
The hosts returned to the subject later in the program, with Kilmeade again charging Gaetz with having handled his ouster of former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy “terribly” before going even further in his criticism of the ex-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,” said Kilmeade.
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