‘Are You Not Entertained?’ Scott Jennings Reacts to Trump Nominating Matt Gaetz For Attorney General
CNN political commentator Scott Jennings reacted with surprise to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) being named by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for attorney general.
On Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced via Truth Social that Gaetz would be his nominee to serve as the next attorney general for his incoming administration.
Gaetz, who has served in Congress as a Trump ally, is currently under investigation by the House Committee on Ethics regarding “allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct.”
Jennings reacted to the news by claiming Trump “is feeling his power, feeling his influence, doesn’t feel like he’s in a mood to negotiate.” Jennings continued:
Are you not entertained? I mean, this is the most entertaining transition I’ve ever seen. I was as surprised as Paula, because it’s not a name that we had seen. We’d seen some reporting, a lot of different names, frankly, a lot of really sort of well-heeled Washington legal types that were on the list. So I’m I’m as surprised as anyone.
But what I take away from this is that this is a president elect who is feeling his power. I mean, this is someone who is appointing people to things, whether it’s Gaetz or anything else we’ve seen today, who is feeling his power, feeling his influence, doesn’t feel like he’s in a mood to negotiate with the people in Washington, D.C. He’s here to do what he wants to do. And he’s going to expect the Republicans to fall in line.
And all these people, whether it’s Gaetz or Hegseth or anyone else, have to go to confirmation and go through these committee hearings and prove themselves like anyone else. But it is apparent to me that Trump is in a decisive mood and is not someone who’s interested in picking things that he would consider to be watered down. So that’s my that’s my initial reaction to this. I mean, we truly learned about it two seconds before we came on here. So pretty wild day.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
