Republican turns on Trump: 'Don't have to pick between character and competency'
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Republican turns on Trump: 'Don't have to pick between character and competency'

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Former Rep. Trey Gowdy on Friday night sharply criticized Donald Trump's selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general — and gave his fellow commentators on Fox News a piece of his mind. "Trey Gowdy would know something about clown shows," he said in January 2023. Gowdy was no less cutting as he explained to Fox News anchor Bret Baier what he thought of Gaetz, who abruptly resigned from Congress this week ahead of a vote on whether to release a House Ethics Committee report into allegations of child sex trafficking, acceptance of illegal gifts, and drug use. "I think, as I said at the beginning, a lot of these senators want to get these through, if not all that they can," said Baier, noting to Gowdy that the FBI investigation of Gaetz for sex trafficking never ended up with charges against him.

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The GOP outrage police who demanded answers after Benghazi are showing ‘rank hypocrisy’ over Jan. 6: journalist
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The GOP outrage police who demanded answers after Benghazi are showing ‘rank hypocrisy’ over Jan. 6: journalist

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After terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Republicans in Congress and their propagandists in the right-wing media demanded accountability. But Washington Post opinion writer Dana Milbank, in his December 15 column, slams MAGA Republicans for their blatant hypocrisy — stressing that Republicans who were so outraged over Benghazi aren’t demanding …

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