Geraldo Rivera stated Wednesday that information of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s lawyer common nomination by President-elect Donald Trump left him feeling bodily sick.
“When I heard that Matt Gaetz was picked to be attorney general, I threw up in my mouth,” Rivera, 81, informed NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert” Wednesday.
“I think it is a horrible, creepy choice. I have no idea why he did it,” added the previous longtime Fox Information character, a onetime good friend of Trump.
Trump, 78, despatched shockwaves throughout Washington by asserting his choose of Gaetz (R-Fla.), who confronted a congressional ethics investigation for breaches together with sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, accepting bribes or impermissible presents, misuse of state identification information, and sharing of inappropriate photos on the Home flooring.
“Matt Gaetz is the epitome of everything that is rotten in Washington,” Rivera stated Wednesday, calling the Sunshine Stater “privileged, entitled [and] backstabbing.”
“There’s no way the Republicans in the Senate will confirm this man,” he added. “He’ll make the Clarence Thomas [Supreme Court] confirmation hearing look like a walk in the park. They will dig up everything about him.”
Gaetz, 42, resigned from the Home “effective immediately” within the wake of Trump’s announcement, regardless of having received a fifth two-year time period final week.
His resignation ended the ethics investigation, although it was unclear whether or not any report might be launched.
Rivera additionally railed in opposition to the Gaetz nomination on social media, writing, “Matt Gaetz is a douche. So bad for Attorney General. Gross.”
The longtime information correspondent and speak present host had backed Trump throughout his first stint within the White Home however abruptly switched gears and threw his help behind Vice President Kamala Harris for the 2024 election, calling his former good friend “a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution.”
