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In both his character and capacity to carry out justice, Gaetz is the opposite of an appropriate candidate to lead the Department of Justice.

He is the anti-attorney general.

The announcement shocked even members of Congress whose lockstep loyalty to the president-elect is otherwise unquestioned.

Second, he is a flagrant partisan who has demonstrated beyond dispute that he would put Trump’s interests over any fair application of the law.

And he is preoccupied with partisan matters that have little to do with the overwhelming bulk of the department’s vast nationwide law enforcement portfolio.