While the media focuses on the juiciest details of the Ethics Committee report on the misdeeds of Matt Gaetz, the real story is something else.
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The House Ethics Committee on Monday released a salacious report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that dominated the front pages of mainstream media organizations… all of whom missed the real story.
Yes, sex sells, so it makes sense that the major news outlets would focus on juicy details, like the revelation that the committee believes there was “substantial evidence” that Gaetz committed statutory rape, used illicit drugs, and paid a smattering of women with whom he had sex (including one of them who was 17 at the time) roughly $90,000.
The report outlined a bunch of other misconduct and potential violations of state and federal laws as well as House rules, but they weren’t as scandalous, so nobody focused on those.
Neither will we.
That’s because they are also not the most important aspect of this story.
What is, however, is that Donald Trump wanted to make Gaetz the attorney general of the United States of America.
There isn’t an official job description for the nation’s top law enforcement official, but we are reasonably sure that “being a generous (wink, wink) lover” or “first-nose knowledge of cocaine” would never be part of it.
Therefore, Gaetz should have been considered wholly unqualified because he couldn’t even meet the minimum standard of “no suspected history of extensive criminal behavior.”
Of course, in a Trump regime, the only required qualifications are blind loyalty and adulation.
While Gaetz withdrew his name after realizing that this report would probably see the light of day, there are still tons of nominees for important government posts who can’t clear the lowest hurdles necessary to fill their respective positions.
By the way, we are not saying that they are unfit per se, just that they are unqualified for the jobs Trump wants them to do.
For example, Pete Hegseth would be a great choice to run the “Department of Getting War Criminals Off the Hook,” especially if that position required day drinking and Christian nationalism.
And Tulsi Gabbard has all the qualifications to be put in charge of the “US Agency in Support of Vladimir Putin.” There is no doubt that she would sail through the confirmation hearings since her credentials in that area are impeccable.
How about the “Center for Bringing Back Eradicated Childhood Diseases”? You know who would be an excellent pick for that one? That’s right: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Finally, if Kash Patel had been tasked with running the “Federal Bureau of Carrying Out Donald Trump’s Vendettas,” there would be nobody more qualified.
We could go down the list and find the right job for many more of Trump’s nominees (like “Ambassador to Getting Out of the Way so My Son Can Date Somebody Else”).
Unfortunately, they were all picked to fill positions they are (often uniquely) unqualified for.
And it would be nice if everybody were to focus on that a bit more than how many women Gaetz gave money to after having sex with them… out of the goodness of his heart, of course.
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