The Gaetz Close On Trump's Dictatorship And Morning Joe Continues To Nosedive

What does the defeat of Matt Gaetz's nomination to be attorney general really mean? Also, Morning Joe's ratings nosedive.

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The Gaetz Close On Trump’s Dictator Dreams

Donald Trump tried to bully the Senate. He really did. The president-elect got on the phone and threatened Republican senators with primary challenges that would be paid for by Elon Musk. He issued the threat that every Republican must vote for all of his nominees, or else they would pay. More accurately, Musk would pay to primary them.

A couple of hours later, Matt Gaetz issued a statement about not being a distraction and withdrawing his name from consideration to be attorney general.

There are some out there in the DC pundit class, the ones who seem to live to make Trump out to be smarter than he really is, who are saying that the Gaetz nomination was a set up by Trump to make sure that all of his other nom…