Tomi Lahren says nomination and withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for attorney general “has the art of the deal written all over it.”
Lahren: “I think both the nomination and the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz was very strategic for the Trump team.”
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From the November 21, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Story
TOMI LAHREN (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, I'll tell you this Martha, I think this whole thing was very strategic and in my estimation it has the art of the deal written all over it. Obviously, Matt Gaetz was a very controversial pick, some would say maybe the most controversial pick that Trump could of selected. So now whoever he picks as his second choice, they'll probably receive a little bit less scrutiny, they won't have as much heat on them. So I think both the nomination the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz was very strategic for the Trump team. It also took some of the heat off of the other picks that were also controversial but perhaps less so than Matt Gaetz. So I think it kind of gave cover for some of the other controversial picks and whoever he picks as his second choice, I think that they're going to have a much easier time because they will not be as controversial as Matt Gaetz. It would be hard to find somebody more controversial for that pick, so I think it's been very strategic.
MARTHA MACCALLUM (HOST): Yeah. Do you think Matt Gaetz was in on that? Do you think Matt Gaetz was complicit in that plan that you lay out, Tomi?
LAHREN: Listen, this is all just my theory and my speculation, but I wouldn't put it past him. I think that this is a very strategic team. You watch the media and Democrats melt down over this for an entire week. I think, as Senator Fetterman said, this was an epic troll. Maybe all part of the plan, the art of the deal.