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    ‘The hammer of justice is coming:’ Elon Musk defends Matt Gaetz

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    WASHINGTON – Elon Musknow a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, is aggressively defending Trump’s nomination a former US Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general and suggesting that Gaetz would help investigate opponents of the new administration.

    “Gaetz will be great” Musk said on Xdefending the retired Florida congressman against criticism that he is an inexperienced lawyer who has been investigated for child sex trafficking.

    Shortly after Trump announced Gaetz’s nomination Wednesday, Musk noted on X that both had accused the government of targeting them with politically motivated investigations and suggested retaliation was at hand.

    “The Hammer of Justice is coming,” Musk said.

    Musk’s message on Thursday was directed at former national security adviser John Bolton, a Trump critic who described Gaetz as one of the worst cabinet picks of all time.

    “Gaetz is not only totally incompetent for the job, he has no character,” Bolton told NBC News. “He is a person of moral weakness, and despite how difficult it may be politically, this is a nomination that the Republican Party should oppose.”

    In his X post defending Gaetz, Musk said Bolton “is a stunningly stupid warmonger, being against someone is a great sign!”

    Musk, the billionaire businessman whom Trump tapped to lead a new government efficiency program, is expected to play an important role in the new administration.

    The Justice Department spent two years investigating Gaetz over allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl and may have violated federal sex-trafficking laws. The DOJ took no action against Gaetz, who denied the allegations and said they were set up.

    The House Ethics Committee also investigated Gaetz, but that investigation is up in the air, given that the congressman resigned on Wednesday.

    Gaetz said the investigation into him is politically motivated and said on social media that “we should have an all-out press against this government WITH GUNS that has been turned against our people. And if that means abolishing each of the three letters. agents, from the FBI to the ATF, I’m ready to go!”

    In appointing Gaetz to head the Justice Department, Trump — who in 2023 was indicted in four separate criminal cases — said “few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan arming of our justice system.”

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