House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
MATT GAETZ LABELS HIMSELF a “firebrand.” Now he’s ready to torch the Department of Justice, the agency Donald Trump has tapped him to lead.
Of all the lawyers Trump interviewed to be his next attorney general, the Florida congressman checked the most boxes. Gaetz is a loyal, longtime adviser, an acid-tongued debate champ, and—perhaps most important to the oft-investigated former and future president—an aggrieved target of the feds. Gaetz was the subject of a federal sex-crime probe that he survived and labeled a Deep State fix.
As Trump began formulating the type of individual...
