WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one prosecutor after another for perceived bias against the president-elect and emphatically amplified the Republican's rallying cry that the criminal investigations into him are “witch hunts.”

Gaetz, a Florida lawmaker who has been under federal investigation, has been a staunch Trump ally on Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump was expected to pick an outsider to lead the U.S. intelligence community. He exceeded expectations by choosing Tulsi Gabbard. The former Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii has many critics and no formal intelligence experience.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he is appointing former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard—the ex-Democrat from Hawaii—as his director of national intelligence (DNI). Gabbard is among the latest of Trump's selections to key positions following his victory in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris last week,