{"id":2815,"date":"2024-11-22T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/morning-report-trump-taps-new-ag-after-gaetz-bows-out\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:24:17","slug":"morning-report-trump-taps-new-ag-after-gaetz-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/morning-report-trump-taps-new-ag-after-gaetz-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report \u2014 Trump taps new AG after Gaetz bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&rsquo;s issue: A matter of time. That was the betting among Washington politicos. A week after his nomination, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew his name for attorney general, citing a desire Thursday to end a &ldquo;distraction&rdquo; for the Trump transition.  It was one of the fastest Cabinet turnstile twists in recent memory and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/5004125-donald-trump-pam-bondi-matt-gaetz-attorney-general\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&rsquo;s issue: A matter of time. That was the betting among Washington politicos. A week after his nomination, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew his name for attorney general, citing a desire Thursday to end a &ldquo;distraction&rdquo; for the Trump transition. It was one of the fastest Cabinet turnstile twists in recent memory and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}