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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered a threat to any Republican who might break rank on confirming Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as Donald Trump's next attorney general: MAGA will come for your job.

“I don’t know, you’re finding all the swamp creatures coming out right now” to oppose Gaetz's nomination, Tuberville said Wednesday evening on Fox Business. “Everybody’s got an opinion up here but at the end of the day, President Trump was elected by an enormous vote, and he deserves the team around him that he wants. It’s not up to us to determine that.”

Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be the country's next attorney general prompted his resignation from Congress, but according to reports, the possible release of a House Ethics Committee investigative report may have also played a role in his stepping down.

Gaetz, a MAGA enthusiast and Trump loyalist, has been under sporadic investigation by a House panel since 2021, and according to new reporting in Punchbowl News, his resignation hours after Trump announced him as the next leader of the Justice Department came two days before the committee was scheduled to vote on whether to release a “highly damaging” report detailing its investigation.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board is known for being very conservative and complimentary of the GOP — but they had no enthusiasm for Donald Trump's choice of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to serve as attorney general.

Gaetz, who has already resigned from Congress ahead of a confirmation battle, has broadly alienated the rest of the GOP caucus and has faced both an FBI investigation and a House Ethics Committee probe over a child sex trafficking case, as well as allegations of drug use, campaign finance violations, retaliation, and other misdeeds.

As Republicans celebrate their wins across all three branches of government, The Atlantic's Russell Berman lays out why a good chuck of Donald Trump's proposed legislation will have a difficult time passing through Congress — even despite the party's "218th House-race victory."

In a Wednesday article, Berman notes, "How many more seats the Republicans will win depends on the outcome of a few contests, in California and elsewhere, where ballots are still being counted. But the GOP’s final margin is likely to be similar to the four-seat advantage it held for most of the past two years, when internal division and leadership battles prevented the party from accomplishing much of anything."

Washington insiders continued to be stunned Wednesday evening by President-elect Donald Trump’s unusual pick for attorney general of Matt Gaetz, who a former congressional colleague described as “a gonzo agent of chaos” who is disliked even by those in his own party.

“There’s a lot of attributes the attorney general needs – equanimity, care, prudence, a deep respect for the rule of law. Matt Gaetz is the opposite of all of those things,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during an appearance on his show, “The Situation Room.” The comments came after Himes, a top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told the host he agreed with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy’s description of Gaetz’s selection to lead the Justice Department as “a red alert moment.”

Former George W. Bush administration aide David Frum is horrified by many of Donald Trump's proposed Cabinet picks, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.

And yet, he told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Wednesday, all of this may come back to bite Trump quickly — by setting off a protracted fight in the Senate within his party that could put his administration on a weak footing to get anything accomplished.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has already resigned from Congress — a strategic move meant to help the party find a quick replacement— after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him for attorney general, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday evening, Johnson said he and Gaetz were classmates who came to Congress at the same time in January 2017 and served together for seven years — even sitting next to each other — on the judiciary committee.

President Joe Biden’s warm welcome of Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday – fire roaring and all – seemed to be quite the “cozy moment,” according to a New York Times columnist, who wondered: “So why did it feel so nauseating?”

And it wasn’t just the “gracious” display put on by Trump during the presidential encounter four years after he refused to concede his own race that was unsettling, Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in her piece, adding that Biden was also hard to watch “because he was confronting a monster of his own making.”

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump upended Capitol Hill late Wednesday when he tapped firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be attorney general.

While some of Gaetz’s former GOP foes are warming to the thought of him as the nation’s top cop — even as other Republicans seem to be quivering before Trump — other lawmakers say they can’t even discuss his nomination because Gaetz is still being investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor.

Retired fighter pilot Amy McGrath added her name to the list of former military personnel who aren't happy about Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth as the secretary of defense. But more, she feared the campaign that Hegseth would deploy to bring down his opposition.

Speaking to a panel of former soldiers, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked how military men and women would view former generals being court-martialed to enact Donald Trump's revenge.

Former President Donald Trump's decision to choose Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general was not simply a question of selecting a loyalist, said CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday. In fact, it was a move made out of desperation — as Trump couldn't find candidates he liked for the role.

"I think today is sending shockwaves through, certainly Capitol Hill," said Collins. "What we're hearing from more moderate mainstream Republicans is not this fervent outrage over what was happening with Susie Wiles as chief of staff, Marco Rubio, which was confirmed today as secretary of state, Mike Waltz as national security adviser. That has shifted, and you're seeing the reaction on Capitol Hill to people Trump was always inclined to pick. People that are fiercely loyal to him. And really that has been the number one qualification."

North Dakota Sen. John Thune’s win as GOP Senate majority leader exposed the first cracks in Donald Trump’s "MAGA-verse" that became more fortified after his decisive election night victory, according to a longtime conservative columnist, who added that MAGA influencers "just don’t carry that much weight in the halls of the Senate."

“Not every established rule, custom and norm in Washington will be revoked as Trump returns to the Oval Office,” National Review’s Jim Geraghty wrote Wednesday in an editorial for The Washington Post, where he suggested that Thune’s victory is an early indication that “not all of Washington is Trump-ified.”

Former Justice Department officials rushed to denounce Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace quoted some sending out anonymous messages saying, "truly stunning" and "insane."