Former House Speaker
“Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the Barclays Asia Forum in Singapore on Thursday.
WATCH: Former House Speaker McCarthy discusses his expectations for Trump’s second term, and the President-elect’s nominations of various posts. Source: Bloomberg
Gaetz, a Florida congressman who resigned from the House hours after Trump announced that he would nominate him to run the Justice Department, orchestrated McCarthy’s ouster as speaker last year.
“Doesn’t matter,” McCarthy said of the nomination’s prospects. “It’s a good deflection.”
McCarthy praised ...