‘Putrid’ Choice of Gaetz Has Trump DOJ Alums Rethinking a Return

Matt Gaetz’s selection for attorney general has veterans of the first Trump Justice Department reconsidering whether to reenlist.

Numerous former DOJ officials said they were initially excited or at least open to resuming their service in senior roles at department headquarters or as US attorneys, according to interviews with a dozen of those alums. But some said they began backtracking Wednesday afternoon as soon as Trump tapped the Florida House member and recent subject of a child sex trafficking investigation.

“This choice is putrid,” said a former senior Trump DOJ official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to ...