Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) stated on Sunday that he considers former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s selection for legal professional basic, “disqualified” for the highest regulation enforcement job within the nation.
“I think he’s not only unqualified. He is really disqualified,” Schiff stated on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper.
“Are we really going to have an attorney general who has credible allegations he was involved in child sex trafficking, potential illicit drug use, obstruction of an investigation, who has no experience serving in the Justice Department, only being investigated by it?” Schiff continued.
Schiff advised that Trump is attempting to check how far the Congress will go as the previous president prepares for a second time period with Republican management of the White Home, Senate and Home of Representatives.
“But Jake, I think the whole point with these nominees, several of them, is their unqualification, is there affirmative disqualification,” Schiff stated. “That’s Trump’s point because what he wants to do with these nominees is establish that the Congress of the United States will not stand up to him with anything.”
“If they will confirm Matt Gaetz, they will do anything he wants,” Schiff stated.
The Home Ethics Committee has for years been investigating Gaetz, exploring whether or not he engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, amongst different allegations. He has vigorously denied allegations of wrongdoing, and the Division of Justice, which beforehand investigated whether or not he had intercourse with a 17-year-old, declined to cost him with a criminal offense.
Nevertheless, that Ethics Committee investigation got here to an abrupt finish Wednesday when Gaetz resigned from the Home shortly after Trump nominated him to function legal professional basic. The Ethics panel doesn’t have jurisdiction over former members of Congress.
It’s unknown what path the panel will observe with its Gaetz report. Some Republican senators, nonetheless, have pushed for the Senate Judiciary panel to be granted entry to the report and the probe’s findings as they undergo the vetting course of.
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