Personally, I wholeheartedly support him for the role, and perhaps if it becomes necessary I’ll make the case for why I believe he’s ideal to take on the UniParty Swamp as the top law enforcement leader in the nation. But for now I just want to add clarity to the conversation because there seems to be a lot of confusion about what happens from here.

I discussed it in detail in a segment of my show (apologies for the backup YouTube link but I don’t have it posted on my Rumble channel yet):

For those who prefer to read rather than watch, here are the four paths for Gaetz to become Attorney General. I’ve put them in order from least to most ideal.

“Forced” Recess

There has been a lot of buzz about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson “forcing” the Senate into recess if upcoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune is unwilling or unable to adjourn for the required 10 days so Trump can make recess appointments.

What Johnson was referring to was a resolution calling for both chambers to adjourn. If the Senate does not want to adjourn, they can send back their edits to the resolution. If Johnson then denies the edits, the chambers are in a “state of disagreement” over adjourning. If that happens, then President Trump would decide when they adjourn and for how long.

If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. This has never happened in Congress for a reason. All Thune has to do is… nothing. If he does not reply to Johnson’s resolution, it goes into limbo. Nothing happens other than Johnson being able to say he gave it his best shot.

Temporary Appointment

The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 allows President Trump to appoint Gaetz as Attorney General in an “acting” role. This will give him full power over the Department of Justice and does not require the Senate’s advice or consent.

But it only lasts for 210 days. If President Trump nominates someone else during that time, then Gaetz can remain in the role until the Senate confirms the new Attorney General, but not longer than another 210 days.

This would give us 7-14 months with Attorney General Matt Gaetz. It’s better than nothing and a lot can be done in that time. But obviously it’s not ideal for those of us who want him to fill the role for at least four years.

Planned Recess

The option that most seem to be hoping for is a recess appointment made with a cooperative Senate and Senate Majority Leader adjourning for 11 days. This is what Trump called for before the secret GOP Senate leadership vote and all three contenders agreed to some extent.

Fast forward to today and this seems less likely, but I still think it could happen if Thune really is on Trump’s side and if he doesn’t see a path to confirmation. Gaetz can only afford to lose three GOP votes and some are saying ten or more Republican Senators are not committed to voting for him.

The reason this isn’t the most ideal scenario is because even though it’s faster than going through the confirmation process, it also opens the doors for lawfare to slow or even stop it. Trump wants the option available but he would prefer…

Senate Confirmation

A SPEEDY confirmation process for Gaetz and everyone else Trump appoints is the ideal scenario. Trump knows this which is why he’s been hitting the phones to stir up support among Republican Senators.

The risk here is if Thune works at Mitch McConnell’s speed. During Trump’s first term, McConnell was only able to confirm one of Trump’s picks before Inauguration Day. Compare that to Barack Obama and George W. Bush who both had key people in place with double-digit confirmations before they even stepped foot in the Oval Office.

I neither like nor trust Thune but he’s who we have so I’m going to give him the opportunity to prove me wrong about him. I hope and pray that he can buzz through confirmations and have Trump’s team in place early. If he can unify the caucus behind Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and any of the other controversial picks, then Thune will earn my respect for now. If he pulls a McConnell and acts to subvert Agenda 47, then he will prove to be the UniParty Swamp creature that I believe him to be.

The people don’t trust the media. It’s not because of the Trump victory. In fact, one can argue that the Trump victory is indicative of the paradigm shift away from the “Arbiters of Truth” with a far greater emphasis on independent journalists and public sharing sites like 𝕏.

Now that the election is over, it’s time to pay the piper. According to The Post Millennial:

The Associated Press (AP) acknowledged its financial problems Monday as it began offering buyout packages to some employees and laying off others, downsizing by 8 percent. The go-to news organization that has been providing stories that are ready to print or broadcast for decades is downsizing as it focuses on digital news gathering, the outlet reported. Some major oulets have stopped buying its conent. 

The AP is experiencing some of the financial losses that other mainstream media outlets have seen accelerate in recent years. CNN is also reportedly laying off hundreds of staff, including on-air talent, before the end of the year. The oultlet said those who qualify for a buyout, which includes severance pay and some healthcare insurance for 18 months, would be informed by the end of business on Monday. Those getting axed would get the news in the next few weeks.

Some of the AP’s issues accelerated in 2024 when both the Gannett and McClatchy news chains, which control around 230 outlets including USA today, said they would no longer purchase news from the outlet. Although the outlet sells its materials directly to the consumer on the internet, much of its business is still conducted with member news outlets who pay a monthly or yearly fee for access.

The AP, founded in 1846, used to pride itself on being the largest news service in the world, providing news with reporters stationed around the globe. The AP has said that less than half of those affected would be directly producing the news.

A news and media union, the News Media Guild, revealed that 121 members would get buyouts from the company, however the outlet would not confirm the numbers exactly.

“We all know this is a time of transformation in the media sector,” Daisy Veerasingham, the AP’s president and CEO, told staff in a Monday morning memo. “Our customers — both who they are and what they need from us — are changing rapidly. This is why we’ve focused on delivering a digital-first news report. We now need to accelerate on this path.”

The people are awakening and their information gatekeepers are running out of sleeping pills. This bodes well for the incoming Trump administration.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace is calling on her GOP colleagues to pass a resolution banning men from using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. She intends to file the resolution for inclusion in the House rules package.

“The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol,” she said.

According to Fox News:

The South Carolina Republican plans to introduce a measure “prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes,” according to text previewed by Fox News Digital.

It comes just before the first openly transgender lawmaker, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is set to join Congress in January.

House Republicans have previously changed rules on their side of Congress, such as when ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., scuttled metal detectors outside the House chamber after winning the gavel from previous Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed support for the sentiment Monday:

This is, of course making national news. McBride has been in the spotlight since 2012 when he first came out as trans while serving as the American University Student Body President.

As an interesting side note, recent stories and his Wikipedia page do not mention his birth name. We had to go back to the 12-year-old article to even know what his original name was.

They’re desperate and terrified because they need Trump if they have any hope of surviving as a network. So, they sent their most famous married show hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, to beg Trump to help them with their ratings.

Of course, they claimed it was to “open communications” moving forward, as if this is some grand gesture of goodwill instead of their attempt to mitigate an existential threat. In reality, they played on Trump’s ego and kissed the ring like Amerigo Bonasera asking Vito Corleone for help in the opening scene of The Godfather.

“Be my friend?” he asked.

Joe and Mika asked the same.

Joe Scarborough and his wife, Mika, just announced that they met with President Trump on Friday for the first time in seven years and agreed to open communications moving forward.

Any thoughts? pic.twitter.com/ZMPl9aSmPR

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 18, 2024

The pair, who Trump has called “Psycho Joe” and “Crazy Mika” in the seven years since they last spoke, were likely begged if not threatened by MSNBC executives. Corporate media as a whole cannot afford to be ignored by Trump or his administration. Many things are going to be happening over the next four years and any legacy news outlet that wants to survive will need to be talking with the administration, not just about them.

This isn’t just about Trump, though. It’s about Trump’s growing base of supporters who proved on Election Day that the lies of corporate media are no longer driving their thoughts. If corporate media can no longer be the “Arbiters of Truth” that they’ve pretended to be in the past, then they’ll need to be the disseminators of the Trump agenda if they want to keep an audience.

According to a post by the Hodgetwins:

Why did Biden’s DOD order an industrial shredder the day Trump won the election?

Why did Biden’s DOD order an industrial shredder the day Trump won the election? pic.twitter.com/gQp0TD1vfy

— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) November 16, 2024

It is quite possible that the timing of this order is coincidence. It’s also possible that the industrial shredder being ordered is for metal and plastic waste; the term “industrial shredder” can mean large paper shredders or actual heavy equipment. But it’s telling that if you told your average American that the Department of Defense ordered an industrial shredder to destroy documents immediately after learning that Donald Trump had won the 2024 election, nobody would be surprised.

Instead of having a large chance of winning nothing, she turned to the student next to her who said he COULD do it. They agreed to let him kick and split the money.

“I knew I couldn’t do it and he was next to me, he said he could, so we’re splitting it,” she told host Pat McAfee.

Henry Silver, the confident young man in the Home Depot hard hat, made the kick and will split the $400,000 prize with Sessions. Another $400,000 will be donated for hurricane relief.

Watch:

LET’S MAKE THIS KICK FOR $800,000

$400,000 TO YOU TWO

$400,000 TO HURRICANE RELIEF

ONLY ONE SHOT AT IT

LET’S GOOOOO HENRY

WHAT A MORNING #CollegeGameDay pic.twitter.com/Y4szM3HNZP

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) November 16, 2024

Years of playing soccer paid off for both of them.

They say if you go woke, you go broke. This shows NOT going woke can yield a hefty payday.

Absolutely not.

Make those opposed to him ask him questions. Make them try to demonstrate why he’s not worthy of the position. LET HIIM DEFEND HIMSELF because he has done nothing wrong.

What he HAS done is gone against the grain and challenged their fellow RINOs with historic results. By putting him through the confirmation process they will essentially try to convict him. Consider it his first warm up match before taking on the most consequential role in the administration.

A recess appointment lets them off the hook. They need to put on public display their disdain for anything or anyone who would dare issue the proverbial search warrant for their DC Country Club. They need to tell the American people why they believe a patriot who doesn’t need the money is somehow more corrupt than they are.

They’ve tried to bribe, bully, and blackmail Matt Gaetz over the years and they’ve failed. That terrifies the UniParty Swamp because it means they won’t be able to prevent him from bringing their crimes to light. For too long they’ve hidden behind procedures and protocols while pretending like everything in the Senate is on the up and up, but it’s clear that the cowards on both sides of the aisle are more interested in protecting their own interests than the interests of the people they represent.

A confirmation hearing for Gaetz will be an excellent test of John Thune’s leadership. Senate Republicans who backed him said we can trust him. This is his chance to demonstrate that.

The UniParty Swamp is using the media to paint a dark picture of Gaetz’s chances of confirmation. Their hope is that President Trump will pick someone less aggressive, or at least use a recess appointment to keep them from having to expose themselves in a public hearing. Neither should happen. President Trump should stick to his guns, put Gaetz in front of the Senate, and make them do their job.

This is our country. They work for us. Let Gaetz go to work, starting with a confirmation hearing. I’m confident that he’ll shine and they’ll have no choice but to confirm him.

According to his post on Truth Social:

I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!

HHS is huge. It has 13 operating divisions, including 10 agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies. Included under RFK’s purview will be the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH.

In other words, RFK will now be empowered to completely reshape healthcare in the United States from just about every federal angle.

Reactions to the news were stunning:

RFK Jr. will make America healthy again! pic.twitter.com/kyv3E7maoB

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 14, 2024

Anyone who claims @RobertKennedyJr isn't qualified to head HHS needs to explain the special qualifications of the current holder of that office, Xavier Becerra, who is a career politician with a law degree.

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) November 14, 2024

The old Health Minister vs The new Health Minister

Who do you choose? pic.twitter.com/RQBGeF7dLl

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 14, 2024

God forbid we let RFK Jr. be in charge of HHS, otherwise he might do something crazy like fund experimental gain-of-function research in Chinese laboratories and cause a global pandemic

Oh wait

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 14, 2024

I got to witness Bobby make his announcement to drop out and endorse you front row in Phoenix. He is one of the most genuine patriots I've ever heard speak.

God bless RFK Jr. and President Trump.

— George (@BehizyTweets) November 14, 2024

Just a few months ago @RobertKennedyJr gave up his Presidential campaign to join forces with Trump to “save the children”

Today Bobby was announced as Trump’s new Head of HHS to fulfill that mission and Make America Healthy Again

Congrats Bobby!! pic.twitter.com/bz8Xun41Oc

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 14, 2024

LONG OVERDUE. It’s time to get the toxic chemicals, heavy metals and poisons out of our food. It’s time to stop spraying our skies with metals and get the atrazine and fluoride out of our tap water. Gut the FDA. Big Pharma & Big Food work together to make billions keeping us sick

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 14, 2024

LFG! Let’s fight obesity and Big Pharma together, and, most importantly, let’s lock up Fauci!

— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) November 14, 2024

Ladies and gentlemen, your new HHS Secretary, Bobby Kennedy Jr.:

"I asked God for 19 years to put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease epidemic and bring health back to our children, and in August, God sent me Donald Trump.”

MAHA MAGA

pic.twitter.com/1vKVSLQ4Y3

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 14, 2024

This move is truly transformative. As Kennedy and Trump have both highlighted, this nation was once the envy of the world for both healthcare and fitness of its citizens. Today, we’re the laughingstock. Kennedy is poised to truly Make America Healthy Again.

It will be an honor to serve as President Trump’s Attorney General! pic.twitter.com/dg0iQ0bA6Y

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 13, 2024

Wow. Considering the string of awful Attorneys General we’ve had the past two decades, this is a big win for America.

#BREAKING REPORT: Elon Musk is threatening to fund primary challengers against Congressmen and Senators who go against the Trump agenda, per multiple Capitol Hill sources

LFG!!!

Backstabbers WILL BE REMOVED. Don’t screw around! pic.twitter.com/wR15OjSS3s

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2024

THIS is why the DC elites are so freaking terrified about Attorney General Matt Gaetz

He’s going to take a WRECKING BALL to the corrupt DOJ

LET’S GO! pic.twitter.com/LrGQRwbPE1

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2024

Attorney General will look great on you my love pic.twitter.com/p2yXnPpkny

— Ginger Gaetz (@GingerLGaetz) November 13, 2024

Matt Gaetz as AG has REAL potential. We needed a pit bull to hunt down and prosecute the deepstate. He's a pit bull.

Here he is eviscerating the current AG Merrick Garland six months ago.
Solid pick. pic.twitter.com/5ltLfJHD2e

— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) November 13, 2024

This story is breaking and will be updated with more information.

The second Trump term looks VERY different. From Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to Matt Gaetz and Tom Homan, the team is quickly turning into a dream.

On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, we went over the current picks, including today’s two surprises, Attorney General Matt Gaetz and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.