Donald Trump himself has been quiet. Maybe too quiet.
And now a Fox News guest has just noticed something about Donald Trump that everyone else missed.
Is it possible that Matt Gaetz was never supposed to be the U.S. Attorney General and that it was a 200 IQ moment for Donald Trump to nominate him and ultimately get Gaetz out of the way? Well frequent Fox News guest and radio host Dana Loesch seems to think so.
Conservative radio host Dana Loesch weighed in on former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration for a Cabinet position under President-elect Donald Trump, calling it a strategic move in a game of “4D chess.” On Thursday, Gaetz announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he would step back from Trump’s nomination for attorney general, but expressed his continued support for the former president, vowing to work toward making Trump the “most successful president in history.”
I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance…
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 21, 2024
On her talk show, The Dana Show, Loesch suggested that Trump’s nomination of Gaetz to attorney general was a deliberate attempt to remove him from the political scene, a move that Loesch described as a “brilliant” strategy. She explained that Trump likely knew Gaetz would not be confirmed due to his controversial history and strained relationships with fellow lawmakers.
Loesch said, “The best way to get Gaetz out of the way… is nominate him for a position you know he’s not going to get because you know he’s not going to get confirmed… Not just because of his own chosen poor relationships with other lawmakers, regardless of whether you like him or not, he didn’t get along with everybody.” She continued, “He knows he’s not going to get the seat, or get confirmed, nominates him anyway, and then lets the public in the process do what they do. Take care of it for you, right? Let them handle it for you. Then you can stand back [and say], ‘Hey, look, I’m being loyal to the guy. I picked him for the seat. It’s tough. Tough stuff that it didn’t work out.’”
For Loesch, this strategy echoed her own approach to dealing with political figures causing trouble within a party. “It’s literally the exact same thing I would do. If I was in the position where I needed to get rid of somebody that was causing me problems, but hadn’t taken a stance against me publicly, that’s what I would do,” she said.
In the same day that Trump nominated Gaetz, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Gaetz would be resigning from his House position, effective immediately. Loesch noted that despite concerns about the open seat, she believed Republicans would likely retain the district, which she described as a “solid red” area. However, she did not think Gaetz would be pursuing a Senate seat, suggesting that it would be a “stupid strategy” for him to do so.
She explained that resigning from his House seat without securing confirmation for the attorney general position was a misstep, as it could potentially weaken the party’s majority. “None of these other people that have been nominated, they haven’t resigned anything yet,” she said. “You don’t need to make the show of doing that. You don’t even have to make it immediately.”
Loesch also addressed the complicated relationship between Gaetz and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, suggesting that Gaetz’s past public confrontations with others, including DeSantis, might have made it difficult for him to gain support for future political opportunities. “You can’t expect after you, if you’ve gone at anybody publicly, you can’t turn around and ask them for a favor. That doesn’t work that way,” Loesch remarked, adding that loyalty is a crucial factor in Gaetz’s political world.
In her analysis, Loesch concluded that the entire situation was part of a carefully calculated “4D chess” move by President Trump. She said, “I do think it’s actual 4D chess on behalf of POTUS, not Deep State.”
This comes at a time when Gaetz has been under intense scrutiny, with the media highlighting his lack of experience and ongoing House investigations into allegations of s*xual misconduct and drug use. Just a day earlier, the House Ethics Committee announced it would not be releasing a report on these allegations due to an inability to secure the necessary majority vote from lawmakers.
In his place, Pam Bondi has been nominated by Donald Trump and his transition team to be the U.S. attorney general for Donald Trump’s second term. Already, U.S. Senate Republicans have been much quicker to endorse her, giving her a much better chance of being confirmed than Matt Gaetz had.
Here’s why I like Trump’s new AG pick Pam Bondi
Not only is she experienced, but I look at where someone stands during times of difficulty
When Trump was being impeached for the perfect Ukraine phone call, Pam was brought in to defend him as legal counsel
Not only was that a… pic.twitter.com/fZT4ebX6vl
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 21, 2024
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