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Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America’s attorney-general

Will the Senate be brave enough to block Donald Trump’s other outlandish nominees?

Matt Gaetz speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times/Redux/Eyevine
|WASHINGTON, DC|4 min read

Editor’s note: This story was updated with the news that Donald Trump had selected Pam Bondi as his new nominee for attorney-general.

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