John Thune’s Delicate Task Under Trump

“Sen. John Thune (R-SD) had a little more than three hours to bask in his big victory before Donald Trump dropped an anvil on his head,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“At midday on Nov. 13, Thune’s Republican Senate colleagues elected him majority leader, the triumphant capstone to his decades in public life. Then, just after 3:30 p.m., Trump announced he planned to nominate Matt Gaetz, the polarizing Florida congressman, to be his attorney general—sending GOP senators into a tizzy over the scandal-plagued choice.”

Said Thune: “Well, this is going to be a tough one… You’re just reminded of how challenging the job is going to be.”