The president-elect may have a strategic reason for nominating such an inflammatory candidate, The New York Times reported.

Now those who have tangled with Trump in the past are contemplating what they may be facing in the coming months if he follows through on his campaign rhetoric and uses the full force of the U.S. government to go after them.

Matt Gaetz’s own dad admitted he was surprised by President-elect Donald Trump’s shock decision to tap the now-former Florida congressman as his attorney general. Don Gaetz — a Florida state Senator affectionately known as “Papa Gaetz” — told Politico that he and his wife “really had no prior warning” before the news of their son’s nomination dropped last week,