'This can't be real,' a Justice Department official told ABC News.
as his future attorney general has sent many Justice Department officials into a state of shock following an already tumultuous eight days since the election.
The Florida congressman, who has been an unvarnished critic of the DOJ, was recently the subject of a criminal sex trafficking investigation by the federal department he's now been tapped to lead. One official who spoke to ABC News, however, said they worried Gaetz's nomination could be part of a broader effort to eventually secure confirmation of someone else who would previously have been seen as less palatable.
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