{"id":128424,"date":"2024-11-21T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128424"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:35:02","slug":"trump-transition-live-updates-news-on-matt-gaetz-and-house-ethics-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128424","title":{"rendered":"Trump Transition Live Updates: News on Matt Gaetz and House Ethics Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court prospect bowed out after it was revealed that he had smoked pot in his youth. Two candidates for attorney general were done in when it came to light that they had employed undocumented immigrants as nannies. A third cabinet nominee \u2014 a former Senate leader no less \u2014 was nixed for not paying taxes on a car and driver lent to him by an associate. Even mean tweets were enough to sink one nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The legal and ethical issues surrounding some of President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s selections for top administration jobs, not to mention their history of eyebrow-raising public statements, are far more profound than the kinds of revelations that have killed nominations in the Senate in the past.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">What once passed as disqualifying for a presidential nominee seems downright benign in comparison to allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use by his attorney general pick detailed in a secret congressional report, a sexual assault accusation followed by a paid settlement for his choice to head the Pentagon and an acknowledged former heroin addiction by the would-be health secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It was not so long ago that nominees for high-level jobs and even some of the more obscure ones had to be above reproach, to the point where a relatively minor tax issue could derail them. But times are evidently changing when it comes to nominations at the dawn of the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cStandards are apparently evolving,\u201d said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee. The panel would consider the nomination of former Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, for attorney general if he is formally put forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gaetz was the subject of a Justice Department investigation and a House Ethics Committee inquiry into drug use and whether he had sex with a minor, among other allegations. He and his supporters dismiss the accusations as a smear and emphasize that federal prosecutors declined to charge him, although the underlying claims against him in the case were well documented. The ethics findings remain confidential after the panel <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"#matt-gaetz-house-ethics-report\" title=\"\">deadlocked on Wednesday on whether to release its report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">President-elect Donald J. Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Senate Democrats are flabbergasted at the accounts surrounding multiple Trump selections for top jobs and contend they would never have gotten past the initial vetting stage of past administrations either Republican or Democrat, let alone be put forward for Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s stuff you couldn\u2019t get past the vet,\u201d said Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado. \u201cNow people wear it like a badge of honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The histories of some of the potential picks have also raised alarm with Republicans who have expressed resistance to Mr. Trump\u2019s selections and the prospect of him making an end run around the Senate confirmation process with appointments while the chamber is in recess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am one who believes that integrity and character matter,\u201d Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said in an interview. \u201cI refuse to be deterred, even given some indications that perhaps character and integrity are not the highest qualifications for office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Others among her fellow Republicans are untroubled by the histories of the prospective nominees and say that the Senate should quickly consider and approve them or get out of the way, arguing that Mr. Trump is entitled to his personnel preferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people, if you think about the first Trump administration, that got nominated and never got confirmed,\u201d said Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to have to figure out, how do we help this president who got elected with a mandate to change the country get his nominations done?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Senate confirmation has historically been such an arduous process that some potential appointees have declined to go into government rather than face the hearing gantlet and open their lives and finances to intense scrutiny that can uncover potential issues and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In previous years, the disclosure of even minor improprieties was often enough to end the nomination process and lead to a withdrawal, sparing the White House and the individual embarrassment before the nomination got to a vote. It is rare that a cabinet nominee is actually defeated. The last was in 1989, when former Senator John Tower, Republican of Texas, made it all the way to the floor only to be rejected as defense secretary by the Democratic-controlled Senate because of alcohol abuse and other issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump, who has faced his own accusations of sexual abuse and election subversion, does not appear embarrassed in the least about the backgrounds of his choices and has so far shown no inclination to back down on them. Instead, he has doubled down as is his habit, giving them full-throated endorsement as the kind of people who will enact the change he demands.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Mr. Trump does not appear embarrassed in the least about the backgrounds of his choices and has so far shown no inclination to back down on them.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Al Drago for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It is a difference from the past. Take Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader whom President Barack Obama nominated in 2008 to be health secretary. It was discovered that he never paid income taxes on the use of a car and driver lent to him while he consulted for a financial firm. Mr. Daschle said he was unaware that the car counted as income, and he paid more than $100,000 in back taxes. But the damage was done, and it was determined he couldn\u2019t clear the Senate he once led.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Not one but two of President Bill Clinton\u2019s potential attorney general selections were found to be objectionable because of their employment of undocumented immigrants and, in the case of the corporate lawyer Zoe Baird, failing to pay the required payroll taxes for them. After that, \u201cnanny tax\u201d issues became a standard vetting question for prospective presidential picks. Other potential nominees for a variety of posts ended up withdrawing because of tax liens or questions about their deductions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In another high-profile incident, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg was forced to withdraw his name from consideration as President Ronald Reagan\u2019s nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy in 1987 after it was disclosed that he had smoked marijuana as a college student in the 1960s and occasionally again in the 1970s while on the faculty at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s pick for health secretary, has acknowledged a yearslong addiction to heroin. He was convicted of possessing heroin after his arrest following a flight to South Dakota in 1983 and says he has been in recovery since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As for the tweets, Neera Tanden, President Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, withdrew after it was determined that she couldn\u2019t clear the narrowly divided Senate in 2021 because of previous social media posts critical of senators. Mr. Gaetz\u2019s social media feed is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/16\/us\/matt-gaetz-senators-insults.html\" title=\"\">replete with digs at some of the same senators whose votes he now needs to be confirmed<\/a>, but there appears to be no move to withdraw him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Both Democrats and Republicans have also expressed concern about reports that Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and Fox News personality whom Mr. Trump has tapped for defense secretary, reached a settlement to avoid a lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexual assault at a 2017 conservative conference in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Democrats say the questions about the Trump picks go beyond the minor infractions on the records of past nominees who didn\u2019t pass muster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese aren\u2019t blemishes,\u201d said Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware. \u201cThese are deep stains.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Senate Democrats are flabbergasted at the accounts surrounding multiple Trump selections for top jobs.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He and others said the rationale that criminal charges weren\u2019t filed in some cases \u2014 as was the case for both Mr. Gaetz and Mr. Hegseth \u2014 does not meet the traditional confirmation standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn the past, this sordid, raunchy, indisputed involvement in criminality would have been totally disqualifying,\u201d said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and another member of the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cornyn, the Texas Republican, said the questions surrounding nominees and their backgrounds demonstrated why the Senate must follow its traditional confirmation process to sort out which reports are true or not. He has pressed for the release of the House Ethics Committee\u2019s report on Mr. Gaetz, for instance, and even said he would be open to issuing a subpoena if the panel refused to allow senators to see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have no idea whether it\u2019s people\u2019s speculation or it\u2019s factual or it\u2019s opinion,\u201d he said of the allegations against the prospective nominees. \u201cThat\u2019s why the best thing we can do is just do our due diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/11\/20\/us\/trump-news-gaetz\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Supreme Court prospect bowed out after it was revealed that he had smoked pot in his youth. 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