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Almost entirely correct with one small factual error... Gaetz was a Representative, not a Senator (there are 100 Senators and 435 Representatives). Gaetz said he does not "intend" to fill his house seat, which he won this month with 2/3 of the vote in his district. So DeSantis will call a special election to fill that seat. The open Senate seat that Rubio left will be filled by DeSantis until the next general election (almost one year). Could DeSantis nominate himself since he is term limited as Governor? As to how 74 million could vote for Trump, you only have to go to the only truth Trump has told in years. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump finally told the truth and that should answer why 76 million plus would vote for a convicted felon, convicted sex offender and has between 27-69 women saying they were abused by him in some fashion, but he was never charged other than being convicted in the E. Jean Carroll case... the judge calling his abuse, in fact "rape." Journalist Michael Wolff released recordings between Trump and the notorious Jeffrey Epstein... in the broadest strokes, Wolff’s intention is to paint a picture of two wealthy men of the 1980s whose shared interests lie in money, women and status. He describes how they socialized together in New York. “Here are these two guys both driven by a need to do anything they wanted with women: dominance and submission and entertainment. And one of them ends up in the darkest prison in the country and the other in the White House.”Sluffy wrote:My understanding might be faulty but as far as my following of all this - Gaetz quit as a US Senator and thus created a vacancy - the Governor of the state (in this case Florida) can nominate someone (presumably who fulfils the relevant criteria) to act as a 'temporary' Senator to represent that state in the US Senate (for up to a year?) whilst an election can be held to fill the vacancy.
Therefore Governor De Santos (Rep) could in effect simply send Gaetz back to the US Senate for the next twelve months, if he chose to do that.
But if Gaetz went back to the Senate (or one day Congress) then surely he would be subject to the findings of the inquiry he quit to avoid - which clearly found against him (otherwise he would not have pulled out today after clearly not getting the backing he wanted on his visit to the Capitol yesterday - AND enough decent Republican Congressmen (I believe 4 would be sufficient?) would vote with the Democrats against him to get him chucked out (like George Santos (Rep) recently was?
I guess the immediate future for Gaetz would be if Trump appoints him to a post were no Congress approval is necessary or Trump wangles himself powers to appoint who he wants when Congress is not in sitting?
To be totally honest I simply can't get my head around why more than half the voters in any country would willing vote in an obviously corrupt man and put their own future freedoms and democracy in his hands?
It just seems insanely crazy to me.
Yes I know about the morons who have nearly zero education but I keep coming back to how the emergency hospital surgeon who was at the Trump rally when Trump was shot (and millions of others who clearly do have a brain) would vote for him?
Yes he might make them richer through cutting taxes but he throws everyone else under the bus in doing so - and that is just storing up trouble and resentment further down the line.
As the song goes...
There may be trouble ahead...
...and sooner or later we will all have to face the music but we won't be dancing!
Trump did indeed end up in the White House twice, while Epstein died under mysterious circumstances in the prison they call The Tombs.
