Gaetz gives Republican senators a sigh of relief: ‘He was in the pressure cooker’

There was little love lost from Senate Republicans over former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s abrupt withdrawal Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee.

The eight-day nomination, a brief stint that made it the third-shortest for a Cabinet seat in U.S. history, was plagued by GOP warnings that the polarizing Republican firebrand with a checkered past of sexual misconduct allegations had virtually no path to confirmation.