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Acting AG Matthew Whitaker

Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm

New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest that acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker misled the agency’s investigators as he was stepping into his role last year as Justice Department chief of staff.

After several attempts to reach Whitaker about the Miami company where he was on the advisory board, the FTC investigator emailed his colleagues to relay that he finally reached Whitaker, who was willing to cooperate and asserted that he “never emailed or wrote to consumers” in his consulting role.

That statement to James Evans of the FTC appears to be inaccurate. Whitaker had written a letter in 2015 to a disgruntled customer who planned to report the company, World Patent Marketing, to the Better Business Bureau. In the letter, which was included in the FTC’s disclosure and reported previously by the news media, Whitaker threatened the customer, writing: “I am assuming you understand there could be serious civil and criminal consequences for you if that is in fact what you and your ’group’ are doing.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/politics/matt-whitaker-iowa-day-care/index.html

People joke about how despicable Trump supporters are but it looks like this one really did withhold toys from toddlers.

Not only is it clear to me Trump can't get someone to be an AG, he can't even get the lower level staffers who search Google to vet the new AG. This is symptomatic of a failure of recruiting and vetting at all levels, from The Cabinet down to the low level staffers who put the briefing packages together on candidates. After this week, it's only going to get worse.
 
There are now even more legal challenges on Whitaker.

In addition to the Supreme Court fight and the one at the 3rd Circuit, the defendant in a pet-food-adulteration case in Missouri has asked a judge to dismiss the case because of the alleged defect in Whitaker’s appointment, the state of Maryland has raised the issue in connection with a suit over the Justice Department’s refusal to defend aspects of the Obamacare law, and three Democratic senators have filed a free-standing suit in Washington asking that Whitaker’s appointment be declared unconstitutional.
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Linky.
 
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