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The editors of the conservative Wall Street Journal are warning former President Donald Trump against carrying out a recently leaked scheme to purge the American military of senior officers.

In an editorial about Trump's nomination of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to lead the United States Department of Defense, the editors urged Trump to act with caution when it comes to plans to shake up the military brass.

John Clune, an attorney for an alleged victim of sexual misconduct, called on the House Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Clune's remarks came after Gaetz resigned from Congress Thursday to be President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general.

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski laughed at Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) on Thursday after he professed his loyalty to Donald Trump — no matter what he asks or what he does.

Speaking with reporters about the former president's cabinet picks that include controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Tulsi Gabbard and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth — all of which are being criticized on both sides of the ideological divide — Nehls was undeterred, saying of the president-elect, "So now he's got a mission statement — his mission, and his goals and objectives, whatever that is, we need to embrace it. All of it. Every. Single. Word."

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went ballistic after his Infowars website was taken down during a live broadcast.

During a simulcast with Steve Bannon's War Room on Thursday, Jones announced that Infowars.com was offline after The Onion successfully won an auction for the site's assets.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that he's demanding that the House Ethics Committee release the report about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to the Senate Judiciary Committee so they can examine it. Gaetz is headed for Senate confirmation after Donald Trump picked him for the attorney general post.

On Wednesday, Gaetz resigned from Congress, which stopped the ethics investigation into allegations about drug use, sexual misconduct, accepting improper gifts, dispensing special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and attempting to obstruct government investigations of his conduct, CNN reported Wednesday. Gaetz denies all of the allegations.

The Onion is making Americans cry tears of laughter over its "revenge" on Alex Jones.

News that the satirical news site had purchased the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist's media platform Infowars — with backing from the families he was found liable for defaming in a $1.4 billion lawsuit — spurred hilarity and joy on social media Thursday.

Reacting to Donald Trump's controversial and much-derided choice of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be his attorney general, MSNBC analyst Katty Kay suggested the reported inner-circle fighting over the selection among the former president's people is a sign that things are not running as smoothly as it would seem.

Speaking with the hosts of "Morning Joe," Kay stated that the president-elect's team was on a smooth glide path with earlier nominations but has hit a bumpy road with the picks of Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard to head DNI and Fox News personality Peter Hegseth as defense secretary.

"The reporting is that Matt Gaetz was not high up on the list [for AG]," Kay began. "Other people around Donald Trump didn't think he was going to necessarily be the attorney general pick and then he flew up with Donald Trump yesterday morning to Washington, D.C.., and the reporting is that as the result of those conversations his name was announced."

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"Maybe this is Donald Trump not being as organized about his cabinet as we had thought he was from the early picks when he came in and immediately announced Susie Wiles," she suggested. "We thought this is different from 2016 –– this is somebody who has been planning this, it's organized, there is a system here."

"Yet, the last couple of appointments suggest that may not be the case, that some of this is being –– Pete Hegseth, only went down to Mar-a-Lago Monday, announced quickly," she reported. "Matt Gaetz was announced quickly after those conversations on the plane. So perhaps there is a little bit more chaos around this one."

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Many conservatives, including some who supported former President Donald Trump's 2024 bid for the White House, are drawing the line at his decision to pick scandal-plagued former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be his attorney general.

Writing in the National Review, Jeff Blehar said that many of Trump's cabinet picks were acceptable to him but he drew a bright red line at Gaetz.

A Justice Department veteran described how Donald Trump's attorney general nominee could destroy the federal law enforcement agency from the inside.

Andrew McCabe, who became acting FBI director when Trump fired James Comey but was then pushed out himself in what he has called a purge of disloyal officials, told CNN that former congressman Matt Gaetz was chosen to lead the department so he could exact revenge for the president-elect.