Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman responded sarcastically when asked about Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz removing himself from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general.<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly s\u2011\u2011\u2011, I didn\u2019t see that coming,\u201d Fetterman said mockingly when asked about the withdrawal by a reporter.<\/p>\n
Gaetz wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he had \u201cexcellent meetings\u201d with Senators the day prior, but \u201cit is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump\/Vance Transition.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a post on his Truth Social social media site, Trump called Gaetz a \u201cdeeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman responded sarcastically when asked about Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz removing himself from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general. \u201cHoly s\u2011\u2011\u2011, I didn\u2019t see that coming,\u201d Fetterman said mockingly when asked about the withdrawal by a reporter. Gaetz wrote in a post on X, formerly known as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}