Hugh Hewitt Speculates Trump May Actually Be Trying to Get Rid of ‘Irresponsible and Erratic’ Matt Gaetz: ‘Playing 4-D Chess’
Conservative radio host and reliable Trump booster Hugh Hewitt slammed Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Justice, as “irresponsible and erratic,” suggesting that Trump may be playing “4-D chess” and setting Gaetz up for failure during his show on Thursday morning.
“I have lots of opinions on Matt Gaetz, and you’ve heard me express them here a long time, for a long time,” began Hewitt, musing that Gaetz didn’t belong “near the fifth floor of the Department of Justice” and declaring “I trust the Senate.
“He’s resigned from the House. Donald Trump could be playing 4-D chess here, because Matt Gaetz wanted to end the ethics investigation in the House — they lose jurisdiction when a member resigns, so that proceeding is closed — but their paper isn’t closed and that goes to the Senate Judiciary Committee,” argued Hewitt. “The FBI opens a full field background investigation into Matt Gaetz. And Matt Gaetz has to testify, for as long as the Senate Judiciary Committee wants, and all of that is under oath subject to the penalties of 18 U.S.C. 1001. And so if he lies during the course of that hearing, it’s a felony. If he doesn’t lie, he’s gonna have to persuade people that everything that’s been said about him — and I’m not gonna repeat it her cause I don’t-, I’m not interested in rumors, and innuendo, and reports, and gossip — all I know is he destroyed the Republican coalition and is often irresponsible and erratic, not what I want in attorney general.”
“It might be the proverbial 4-D chess that people joke about, because Matt Gaetz resigned from the House,” he continued. “So he’s gone! No office, no staff, there’ll be two special elections in Florida.”
“But I just trust the Senate, our Constitution is very strong, I trust the Senate, I do not believe he will be confirmed,” concluded Hewitt. “The only downside to this is it’s a circus. And the president-elect had a winning streak going.”
The House Ethics Committee report on the investigation into whether Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct,” was set to be released within the next week prior to his resignation from the House on Wednesday.
