Chuck Darwin<p>Republican lawyer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Epshteyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epshteyn</span></a>, <br>who in June pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges related to his 2020 effort to overturn Arizona’s electoral vote in favor of former president Donald Trump, <br>lobbied the president-elect to pick <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Matt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gaetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaetz</span></a> as attorney general, Politico’s Meridith McGraw reports.
<br>Trump shocked officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday when he announced Gaetz as his pick for attorney general. <br>Shortly after, Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives where he served four terms as representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district.
The Bulwark’s Marc Caputo on Wednesday reported Trump sees Gaetz as “a loyal, longtime adviser, an acid-tongued debate champ, and an aggrieved target of the feds.” <br>And, according to McGraw, the plan to nominate Gaetz for attorney general came together “just hours before it was announced.”
“[The plan] was hatched aboard Trump’s airplane en route to Washington, on which Gaetz was a passenger,” Politico reports. “… <br>Boris Epshteyn played a central tole in the development, lobbying Trump to choose Gaetz.”
Trump’s chief of staff, Susan Wiles, “was in a different, adjacent room on the plane, apparently unaware,” Politico adds.<br><a href="https://www.alternet.org/boris-epshteyn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">alternet.org/boris-epshteyn/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>