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An echoed defense of the president-elect’s attorney general nominee slammed the “Department of Injustice” while deeming Matt Gaetz the “warrior we need.”

Ahead of the slated release of a House Ethics Committee investigation Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of then-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general in a move swiftly followed by the lawmaker’s resignation from Congress. Friday, as the report regarding, in part, sexual misconduct had not been released, The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway shredded the Justice Department in support of the potential appointment.

“We don’t have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Injustice and that’s why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee,” she had said as Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk shared her appearance on Friday’s edition of Fox News’ “Special Report.”

“Mollie Hemingway delivers an absolutely masterful defense of Matt Gaetz as AG,” asserted Kirk. “For eight years, we haven’t had a Department of Justice, we’ve had a Department of Injustice, and too few of our leaders in DC had the spine to fight back. Gaetz has enemies in DC precisely because he didn’t back down from the toughest fights. He is the warrior we need to set things right.”

Hemingway argued, “Matt Gaetz was nominated for this position because we have a problem at the Department of Justice. For the last eight years, they have run roughshod over the rule of law in this country. They have prosecuted political opponents. They ran the Russia collusion hoax and too many people in Washington, D.C. did not stand up against what was happening there, and many Americans are upset about it.”

“Matt Gaetz is one of the most effective people at fighting that Russia collusion hoax and other information operations. Whether it was the Brett Kavanaugh information operation, the Donald Trump-Russia collusion hoax information operation, or the one that is referenced here, which is something that the FBI and the Department of Justice — which hate Matt Gaetz — looked into, and cleared him of any wrongdoing,” she went on.

“The issue is corruption,” expressed Hemingway. “It’s the Department of Justice’s corruption and people are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C. doing nothing as these people try to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who might root out the corruption there. We don’t have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Injustice and that’s why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee.”

Meanwhile, as the House Ethics Committee report was withheld from public scrutiny in a move supported by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Joel Leppered, a Florida attorney representing a number of women accusing Gaetz, told ABC News Monday that two of his clients alleged the former congressman had paid them for sex.

When asked by ABC News’ Juju Chang, “If both of your clients testified that they were paid by Representative Gaetz to have sex?” he replied, “That’s correct. The House was very clear about that and went through each. They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them. And my clients repeatedly testified, ‘What was this payment for?’ ‘That was for sex.’”

A client of Leppard was also said to have alleged watching Gaetz commit statutory rape as the House Ethics Committee was “reviewing allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

ABC News made certain to note, “The Justice Department spent years probing the allegations against Gaetz, including allegations of obstruction of justice, before informing Gaetz last year that it would not bring charges.”

In another reaction to the nomination from Colorado-based attorney John Clune, representing a woman alleged to have been a victim of statutory rape during an encounter with Gaetz as a high school student, it was said, “Mr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing the report. She was a high school student and there were witnesses.”

Despite the claims, public perception of the Justice Department and the available facts found many supporting the position of Hemingway and Kirk.

Kevin Haggerty
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