It appears Matt Gaetz was a stalking horse

[jmowreader]

Trump probably wanted Florida AG Pam Bondi from the beginning - she's cute, she adores President-for-Life Elect Trump, and she's one of the worst fascists Trump has put forward to date. Because of how far out of whack her leanings are he knew she wouldn't get in without help...so, throw an utter sex fiend's name into the hat then when he gets chased out of consideration bring in Bondi, whose sole desirable attribute seems to be "as far as we know, she hasn't committed any heinous sex crimes yet."

[peregrinus]

1. I'll bet she attends all the same sex parties as Gaetz

She’s just smart enough not to record it

[Traildogbob]

2. So I am guessing

Now, what was it MTG said, let’s bring the dance into the light, and expose all the sex freaks if Gaetz goes down? Gonna be like the Soul Train dance line as the scum get exposed in retribution for Mattress Matt being taken out?

[summer_in_TX]

21. Maybe keeping her in line is why she's been named to a DOGE subcommittee.

Musk, Ramaswamy, and Greene. A toxic stew.

[Joinfortmill]

3. Could be, but I don't think the rapist is that smart.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Someone is helping him. He is not capable of doing much work.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. traitortrump is a puppet with many masters.

[rsdsharp]

4. I agree, but I think it goes beyond AG. Gaetz was so horrible, all the other "nominees" look better in comparison.

The worst one didn’t make it through (and wasn’t intended to), so the rest will likely pass. Which means if Gabbard is DNI, Putin will be on the PDB distribution list.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I agree, it is about all of them sliding in because they look better than Gaetz.

Even some of them are more dangerous than Gaetz.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. I don't think it was necessary or worth it

He could have gotten pretty much ANYONE through a GOP controlled Senate except Gaetz.

He spent a bucket load of political capital on nominating Gaetz. All of his appointments are horrible, but this one just pissed off even his allies there who were forced to go on record pretending that this was acceptable and normal. I think it also may have killed his plan to get them to go along with the recess appointment scheme.

[bigtree]

6. it's not as if she's inevitable

...I don't understand this thinking that one corrupt nominee is supposed to be covering for the next one he appoints.

We can all see them. Bondi is mixed up with the Trump Foundation, and it's entirely probable she won't stand up to scrutiny, either.

[edhopper]

8. She will get

Every GOP vote.

[bigtree]

17. I read people saying that about Gaetz

...jfc, most of us aren't just bystanders waiting for the end of the world.

Never will be.

Any Democrat claiming the inevitability of this needs to be doing something to try and prevent it, instead of just making as if republican senators and their criming cohorts are invincible.

[FBaggins]

55. I can't imagine anyone saying that about Gaetz

Other than just the blanket assumption that republicans will reflexively support Trump - but there were two instant “no” vote republicans as soon as he was named and a dozen or more Republican “huh???!” responses.

Bondi is far more acceptable to these potential crossover votes that we absolutely need in order to defeat a nominee. Also - we have limited ammunition in this battle and much easier targets.


Yes - I think we’re being played and she was the pick all along.

[jmowreader]

9. Another way to consider...

Gaetz is Corrupt x 1.
Bondi is Corrupt x 2. If they kick her back, he'll be advancing more and more corrupt people until Trump advances Bob Odenkirk, who has no actual legal experience to speak of but played a corrupt lawyer on TV. And then if THAT doesn't work most of Fred Phelps' children are licensed attorneys, and he'll just get one of them.

If the Senate signs off on Bondi, though, it saves him the trouble of combing Bureau of Prisons records for incarcerated lawyers.

[underpants]

7. He was inner circle.

Trump picks from whomever is left and he has over a barrel.

[Skittles]

14. inner whore

WOOT!

[sheshe2]

31. Skittles is not a male, little buddy.

[ShazzieB]

32. WTF is wrong with you?

[greatauntoftriplets]

33. Skittles is going to whoop your ass.

[sheshe2]

34. Bahahahaha

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. You know she would!

[sheshe2]

37. I do!🤣

[ShazzieB]

41. That troll would have deserved it, too!

I'm SO glad that post is gone. (I actually came back here just to check, lol!)

I can't help wondering if that was one of our "regulars" who repeatedly sign up, just to post something obnoxious and immediately get banned. If so, I'm sure MIRT will deal with them appropriately. 😁

[greatauntoftriplets]

45. Indeed it was.

They took a break from hitting the books.

[Skittles]

42. AW MAN WHAT DID I MISS

getting sick of the HIDES

[greatauntoftriplets]

43. Library girl.

[Skittles]

44. drawing a blank

is it polly gal?

[greatauntoftriplets]

47. That was one of their recent usernames.

Joins regularly, insults members and posts conspiracy theories, anti-vax, anti-Dem. Uses lots of smileys.

[Skittles]

48. AH OK YES I know now

OMFG do these people have anything better to do?

[greatauntoftriplets]

49. I figured that you would.

They've been around so long. And it doesn't look that way.

[H2O Man]

50. There is a reason

why Jake Paul opted to fight Mike Tyson and not Skittles.

[greatauntoftriplets]

51. Can't blame him.

[Skittles]

10. NOPE

they are both Trump whores

[onenote]

13. Sorry, but that makes no sense.

First, having your first big nomination blow up isn't a good look for Trump.
Second, Bondi wouldn't have had any problem being confirmed if she had been put forward from the start.

[jmowreader]

15. Not so sure

Bondi has a Trump Foundation-related scandal in her past, where TSF's fake charity donated money to her campaigns. She also has at least vestigial ties to Scientology; still-wealthy Scientologists have made large donations to her campaigns and she's spoken at their events. Dig a little and you'll find enough dirt on her to plant wheat in.

[onenote]

16. Which repubs would give a rat's ass about those things?

[pnwmom]

18. She took a $25K campaign donation from a Trump entity while she was investigating Trump university.

In a normal confirmation process that would be investigated as a likely bribe.

[onenote]

22. Do you honestly think the repub senate gives a rat's ass?

What do you think is "normal" about what is going on?

[pnwmom]

23. Where did I say anything now is normal?

[Karasu]

29. Was also a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia at the exact same time she was his lawyer.

Nothing weird about that.

[sheshe2]

38. She has her own scandal to overcome.

He wrote her a check for 25K to make his troubles go away.

She nixed the Trump University fraud case
In 2016, news emerged that Trump paid a $2,500 fine because his foundation improperly donated $25,000 to Bondi’s political election committee in 2013 before her office opted not to pursue a fraud investigation into Trump University. Trump eventually paid $25 million to settle fraud complaints against the now-defunct university.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/21/5-things-pam-bondi-00191199

[onenote]

39. Do you think the Senate repubs are going to care?

I don't think a single Repub senator opposes her confirmation.

[sheshe2]

40. Whatever.

We are screwed no matter who he picks.

[Cheezoholic]

19. Whittling his way to Paxton n/t

[rubbersole]

20. He's mocking the functionality of our government.

This is putin in action.

[Akakoji]

24. Yes

[Karasu]

25. She's yet another foreign asset.

Because apparently this kakistocracy still doesn't have enough of those.

[DET]

26. I Have to Wonder

If Gaetz actually thought he could get in. When will these people learn that everything Trump touches dies.

[Freethinker65]

27. No. He would have been fine with Gaetz. He had dirt on him and he was also chosen because of incompetence, loyalty.

Bondi is loyal and qualified, compromised but less so. More importantly, she will always know she came in second to an unqualified white male sex offender.

[Prairie Gates]

36. Good grief

[H2O Man]

46. Recommended.

Possibly, but there are reports that the felon was angry when republicans told him that they wouldn't support Gaetz.

I will note that Bondi is far more intelligent and disciplined than Gaetz, hence more dangerous.

[brush]

52. You're giving the mentally declining and weaving criminal too much credit.

Those in his cabal like Stevem Miller may have recommended Bondi after Gaetz withdrew. But I think crazy trump on his best day never had any second-level thinking like that.

He really wanted fellow pedophile Gaetz as AG.

[DFW]

53. That's what I thought, too

Even Trump has all but admitted that he didn’t think he could get away with it.

Not that I think any of these nominees are Trump’s sole personal doing. Bannon, Miller, the usual Trump manipulators who put all the ideas and names in his mouth, these are the ones who are the origins of the nominees. Trump probably barely knew the difference between Matt Gaetz and Bill Gates, and would have been happy naming either one.

[Mike Niendorff]

54. I think there was a dual purpose here.

First, they're still gunning for a "recess appointment" binge -- the Gaetz nomination gave them someone to sacrifice in pursuit of that. A little "give" to justify the "take". He was never intended to make it through, he was just a tool to be used in the broader project.

Second, he had become a liability, and they wanted him gone -- they needed him out of the House and they needed the House investigation buried. By convincing him to resign for a "promotion" (that he'd never get), they had a tool to both kill the ethics report and to eliminate him as a potential problem-child going forward.


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[Emile]

56. Besides being dumb as a box of hammers, what else is in Bondi's closet?

[boonecreek]

57. This reminds me

Of Dumbya nominating Harriet Miers to the SC. When she proved to be hopelessly incompetent he withdrew her stuck us with IIRC Alito. And if TSF thought Gaetz could be confirmed, he's even dumber than I thought.

[yardwork]

58. I think a lot of us thought that, yes.

[dalton99a]

59. Bondi is actually more dangerous then Gaetz

Gaetz is basically a sex fiend and an attention whore

Bondi is smart, focused, and insidious