Alyssa Farah Griffin Recounts Gaetz Bringing Trump a Joe Scarborough Conspiracy Theory: That’s the ‘Character’ of this Individual

FARAH GRIFFIN: “I think, to your point, this is what he ran on. I think he would have gone with a more subtle name, maybe someone who’s a loyalist, but not quite as polarizing as Matt Gaetz. But the question now is, does the Senate and Senate Republicans in particular truly believe in its constitutional advise and consent rule. I think can think of about four Republican senators who I think would potentially stand up to this, a Todd Young, a Susan Murkowski, a Susan Collins, a Bill Cassidy. There, I don’t think, is a single Republican senator who actually thinks this is the right choice and a qualified choice and somebody of the moral character to be attorney general. The question is, is there a political will there? Do they want to cross Donald Trump this early in time. And if I could just tell you quickly, my really only run-in with Matt Gaetz, I don’t know him personally, was in the outer Oval Office when Donald Trump was president. He was about to walk in and meet with him, he was holding a folder and I said, ‘What‘s in that folder?’ Just so I could see what he was going to give to the president of the United States. It was conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern. And he presented it to Donald Trump, who then tweeted about it, causing duress to the family of this woman who died tragically, no involvement obviously of Joe Scarborough, but that‘s the character and the judgment of this individual. House Republicans know it, Senate Republicans know it, but will the political will be there?”
COOPER: “I mean, that‘s chilling if that guy is the guy who‘s going to be running the Department of Justice.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “I mean, just the stunning lack of judgment, character and integrity.”