‘Maybe This Wasn’t Such a Good Idea’: Fox & Friends Wavers on Matt Gaetz Amid ‘Hired for Sex’ Report
The viability of President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, received a full-throated debate on arguably the most influential morning show in the world, Fox & Friends.
Trump is an avid cable news viewer and has close relationships with many Fox News hosts. The preponderance of television personalities in his planned cabinet has proven once again how much he cares about what is said on Fox News. So, amid multiple reports that Gaetz paid women for sex and is alleged to have had sex with a 17-year-old, Gaetz’s future as the nation’s top cop has become a hot topic.
Including on Trump’s favorite morning show.
“If they can feel as though they can live with, the … whatever their ethics revelations come out, and he gets in front of people, he is such a strong communicator,” said Brian Kilmeade. “And if he could tone it down and say, that’s the old me, I was a firebrand in the house. But the way I’m going to approach the Department of Justice is this. It might make people pause and say, maybe people can have a different approach for a different job.”
“The Trump transition team — you look at the big screen — there isn’t, you know, there isn’t the kind of headlines around any of those that you see around Matt Gaetz and the constant drip, drip, drip every day of some new revelation,” offered Steve Doocy. “The Trump team’s got to be thinking, you know, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. We don’t want to be spinning our wheels.”
“I actually think the opposite,” Lawrence Jones pushed back. “[Trump] was aware of this investigation before. And the position of the former president is that there’s a Department of Justice that went after me, and it was unfair, and they didn’t find anything with me. And the same thing with Matt Gaetz. He’s actually doubled down. He wants him to be the person.”
“Well, the front page in The New York Times says this federal inquiry traced payments from Gaetz to woman,” Kilmeade reported, citing a damning report from the Times. “A document prepared by the federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex. And then they go into a first during The New York Times. So if this happens for the next two months, it might be too much.”
“It’s a lot,” Doocy chimed in.
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