Whos up for Trumps AG post after Matt Gaetzs withdrawal?

Former Rep.Matt Gaetz’s stunning withdrawal from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general has rocked Washington, with a slate of potential replacements returning to the fore.Gaetz, 42, announced on X Thursday afternoon that his pending confirmation fight “was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition” — and pulled his name.The decision came as a surprise to most GOP insiders after the ex-Florida pol had “positive” meetings with GOP senators on Capitol Hill — but a potentially devastating congressional ethics report on illicit drug use and sexual misconduct hovering in the background.The House Ethics Committee heard testimony from female witnesses to Gaetz’s alleged drug-fueled sex parties early in his congressional tenure — with two claiming that the Republican lawmaker paid them more than $10,000 for the trysts.Another female witness alleged that she saw her 17-year-old friend in flagrante delicto with the then-congressman at a July 2017 rager, according to Joel Leppard, an Orlando-based lawyer.One source spilled to The Post that Gaetz had been passed a private whip count just before his announcement, which showed that he had “no path to confirmation,” and others confirmed that the decision to bow out was fully his.Now, previous contenders for the nation’s top law enforcement official are being brought back into the discussions at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump is holed up with his transition team.Missouri’s AG Andrew Bailey, who has made his name on high-profile litigation against the Biden administration‘s student debt cancellation and mass migrant flights into the US, as well as big tech companies‘ collusion with federal agencies to suppress free speech, was rumored before the Gaetz nomination to be on Trump’s shortlist, according to GOP insiders.Less than an hour after the news broke, Bailey increased speculation by posting on X: “Big announcement coming.

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