President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Congressman Matt Gaetz for attorney general has rocked Washington. Gaetz’s controversial history, including a Justice Department investigation into alleged sex trafficking, makes him an absurd choice. But in a special Lever Time Premium episode exclusively for paid subscribers, political analyst and Lever contributor Matt Stoller points out that Gaetz has a surprising record on antitrust and issues of corporate power, raising questions about his potential impact on corporate regulation if he manages to be confirmed.
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Your lead-in to this interview with Stoller amounts to cooperation in a smear. After three, I repeat three, years of investigation, DoJ decided it did not have enough to even bring charges against Gaetz. How thin must the evidence have been for Justice not to even indict?
Like Stoller, I have no idea of how a Gaetz appointment to DoJ would work out. But let us judge Gaetz on his merits. Let's not participate in unfounded smears. Leave that to the DNC, and what's left of the old-guard RNC.