Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman couldn't hold it together when President-elect Donald Trump announced Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his pick for attorney general.
About 10 minutes before the selection, Sherman was on air saying former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) would struggle to survive a confirmation hearing for the Director of National Intelligence.
But Sherman said one person may stand an even worse chance.
"Matt Gaetz — er makes Tulsi Gabbard seem like this is child's play," he laughed.
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"Matt Gaetz is going to have a tremendously difficult time —" he had to pause again for laughter.
"I can't even say this with a straight face," he confessed. "A tremendously difficult time being confirmed as attorney general. He is under ethics investigations. I wrote a story several years ago with my colleague John Bresnahan at Politico about his misspending taxpayer and campaign money."
"Matt Gaetz is not going to be — I can't imagine a situation in which Matt Gaetz gets 50 votes in the United States Senate, period, hard stop."
Gaetz was also slapped with a complaint from the Bar Association after revelations he allegedly attended a teenage sex party.
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