One of his most loyal ideological allies. The president-elect of the United States, Republican Donald Trump, announced this Wednesday that he will appoint Congressman Matt Gaetz, from the party’s hardline, as the country’s next attorney general. The Florida congressman is loyal to Trump, thrives on controversy and was investigated by the House ethics committee for sexual misconduct and embezzlement.
Since his arrival in Washington, this legislator has forged a political brand as a far-right provocateur, seeking controversy as something natural.
Like Donald Trump, to whom he is fiercely loyal, Gaetz is more interested in confronting his political adversaries than in the dry business of governing, according to his critics. On Capitol Hill he has repeatedly disrupted House proceedings, even once broke in at a high-security facility where Democrats were holding a hearing.
In 2018 he was convicted for inviting a denier from the Holocaust to Trump’s State of the Union speech. A year later, he hired a speechwriter who had left the Trump administration after speaking at a conference that regularly draws white nationalists.
Months after the January 6 assault on the Capitol, Gaetz embarked on an ‘America First’ tour with Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right congresswoman from Georgia, in which they amplified the former president’s lies about fraud in the US election. 2020. He also continued to attack Republicans critical of Trump, using language that reportedly alarmed McCarthy, who feared the lawmakers’ words could incite violence.
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