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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated far-right Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general. The selection of Gaetz, a staunch Trump loyalist, appears to signify Trump’s intent to weaponize the Department of Justice to target political enemies.
Now, I don’t think anybody should be shocked when Donald Trump does exactly the kind of thing that Donald Trump said he would do and the kinds of things that he’s done in the past. So, in some ways, this is not a shocking nomination. Matt Gaetz is a loyalist to Donald Trump. He is a firebrand in the spirit of Donald Trump. But he is somebody who has no appreciable law enforcement experience.
What you heard from Matt Gaetz is the polar opposite of that. You heard Congressman Gaetz essentially saying that the Department of Justice and these other parts of government have to be brought to “our side,” they have to be brought to heel. They should essentially be made political weapons of a particular party and a particular president. That is not how the Department of Justice has ever functioned and not how it’s meant to function in our system.
Now, the civil rights question you asked — right? — so, what I was trying to do when I wrote that piece is to take what Trump and his staff had talked about sort of abstractly and see how it would play out when it applies to one portion of the Justice Department, specifically the Civil Rights Division, which has a very, very large ambit of responsibilities.
I think — you know, as I was saying before with the Matt Gaetz nomination, I think we can’t be shocked if Donald Trump does the things that he has said he was going to do. I think people tend to discount a lot of what he says, but I certainly expect that there’s a good possibility that he will do what he said he was going to do, that he will pardon some of these people.
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