When gravity exerted its pull on that now-former congressman, Matt Gaetz, he reached for a tried-and-true excuse that has softened the landing of many nominees who failed before him, albeit for less shocking reasons.
To call oneself a distraction is to acknowledge a problem— a bump in the cabinet-forming road—without quite admitting guilt or responsibility.
It is a way of minimizing the drama by chalking a failed nomination up to the news media and the collective attention span.
The problem is not them. The issue, they say, is that the public has gotten distracted.
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