Donald Trump has nominated the Maga folk hero as his attorney general, but Gaetz’s stunning rise may be undone by claims that he paid for sex with a minor
Matt Gaetz: the most controversial of all the Republican politicians who fall under the category of long-standing hard-core Trumpites. Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times“We got the band back together,” he laughed before offering a typically audacious and brazen review of the debate delivered with his distinctive South Floridian bass note.
Those few minutes contained much of what makes Gaetz the most controversial of all the Republican politicians who fall under the category of long-standing hard-core Trumpites. He is bright, abrasive and, as his 2020 book title declared, a firebrand. In less than a decade, he has gone from novice, obscure congressman to one of the most divisive figures on Capitol Hill, with a villainous comic-book look of Presley-esque quiff, sharp eyes and a constant knowing smirk.
By then Gaetz was glorying in an acquired infamy. His rise to prominence, since his election to Congress in 2016, was rapid and stealthy and one of those classically southern political stories. He grew up in the Florida panhandle as the son of a multimillionaire and state politician and distinguished himself in high school as an exceptional and provocative debater.
Gaetz has denied allegations and the department of justice declined to press charges, but as the internal investigation continued, he found himself as a kind of lone wolf on Capitol Hill. Many Republican House representatives resented his move against McCarthy. “I don’t think any of us want to fly blind,” Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas said this week. “Part of this is to protect the president against information or surprises coming out later that he and his team weren’t aware of.”
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