{"id":2585,"date":"2024-11-18T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:28:14","slug":"trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s former deputy AG praised his second-tier DOJ picks \u2014 but offered no love for Matt Gaetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is offering effusive praise for two of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s choices for leadership roles at the Justice Department &mdash; while remaining conspicuously silent about Trump&rsquo;s plan to nominate former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general. &ldquo;Critics of unfit appointees should applaud when the President picks qualified people with integrity,&rdquo; Rosenstein wrote on X Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/15\/congress\/rod-rosenstein-trump-doj-00189846\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is offering effusive praise for two of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s choices for leadership roles at the Justice Department &mdash; while remaining conspicuously silent about Trump&rsquo;s plan to nominate former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general. &ldquo;Critics of unfit appointees should applaud when the President picks qualified people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}