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Gaetz: Yes.

Gaetz: Be offended

I believe this is called projection.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is unlikely to face charges for allegedly trafficking a 17-year-old girl because of advice from career prosecutors and credibility issues with a witness, a report Friday said.

Sources told the Washington Post that Department of Justice superiors have been advised against moving the case forward.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11243587/Matt-Gaetz-unlikely-face-charges-sex-trafficking-17-year-old-girl.html

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Matt Gaetz Rejects Trump, Sinks Kevin McCarthy for Fourth Time ...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for unity in the GOP to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

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If you want to drain The Swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.

So... you were lying about that. You did in fact then go on to put the biggest alligator in charge of "draining The Swamp".
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Would be nice if it had a chance of passing.

Does ABC News think this 2018 leak of DeSantis and Gaetz makes them look bad?

Oh no, normal American men being normal humans as they practice their pitch to voters!

This is like the Tucker leaks of him being a normal guy chatting with people on set.

Is this supposed to make us hate DeSantis?

yesterday the House Committee on the ‘political weaponization of the federal government’ hosted several FBI whistleblowers, who have all been savagely and illegally retaliated against by the FBI for speaking out.

Matt Gaetz expressed the issues well during a pre-hearing briefing for the press: Under the Biden Administration, the FBI has been weaponized and aimed at Catholics, school board moms, abortion protestors, January 6th rally-goers, and other purely-political targets.

One of Gaetz’s clips showed an FBI agent who testified that, when asked to investigate January 7th rally-goers in its jurisdiction, his office pushed back, asking for the complete J6 videos so they could confirm the persons to be investigated had actually been in the Capitol. But the field officers were told by DOJ — ominously — that they could not have the video, because it would expose undercover field agents and confidential human sources who were also inside the Capitol.

So there’s one more conspiracy theory that has come true. Check your 2023 bingo card.

Here’s how Gaetz introduced the video clips from witnesses interviewed for the hearings that were then played for reporters:

Thank you chairman… the FBI has been victimized by political capture. And that politicization has manifested in the targeting of Americans who never deserved to have this government weaponized against them. Whistleblowers saw those bad acts, they stepped forward, and they were retaliated against and crushed as a consequence. And our work today will build on the work of Special Counsel Durham, who said recently that at the FBI there is confirmation bias, an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents, and action without appropriate objectivity.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1659194024027213824?ref_src=patrick.net

I like how Gaetz is framing it as the FBI being victimized by political capture. That’s an elegant way to put it, and accounts for the many good FBI agents struggling to stay afloat in their politically-weaponized agency.

Who would have thought Matt Gaetz would become arguably one of the most prominent and important Republicans in the House? I think he’s terrific. And there’s not many issues more important than what he is working on right now.

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has issued a warning to the American people after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally said he was ready to move forward with impeaching Democrat President Joe Biden.

Gaetz responded to McCarthy’s comments by warning that he doesn’t “trust” the speaker’s “word.”

“Talk is cheap,” Gaetz said.

“I don’t trust Speaker McCarthy’s word on impeaching Joe Biden.

“Before becoming speaker, he said he would open an impeachment inquiry into [DHS] Secretary Mayorkas.

“He hasn’t done that,” he noted.

“Weeks ago, he said the IRS whistleblower information justified an impeachment inquiry in AG Merrick Garland.

“He hasn’t done that.”

Matt Gaetz is just another dramatic thespian in the political theatre.

I like him!

Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) explained the story much better during a recent radio interview when he said, “I worked very hard in January to develop a toolkit for House Republicans to use in a productive and positive way. I don’t believe we’ve used those tools as effectively as we should have.”

Gaetz was referring to a deal struck between the House Freedom Caucus and establishment Republicans over Kevin McCarthy’s election as Speaker. Under the tensely-negotiated agreement, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold for a motion to vacate the chair — a move to force a vote on recalling the Speaker — from five members down to just one.

Now, Florida Representative Gaetz has demanded the House vote on commencing impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden, and vowed “if Speaker McCarthy stands in our way, he may not have the job long.”

I suspect that Gaetz is also spineless, but would be happy to be proven wrong.

It also appears that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FLA) intends to force the issue of opening an impeachment ASAP against “Joe Biden.” In last January’s maneuvering to seat a new Republican House majority, Mr. Gaetz pushed through an agreement that the process to remove and replace the Speaker of the House could be activated by one vote. Mr. Gaetz reiterated last week that he means business. He’s the one vote.

The argument that Republicans should leave hands-off “Joe Biden” so they can run against the feeble old grifter in 2024 is preposterous because there is no way that the “JB” can possibly run for reelection under any circumstances. It’s just another trip being laid on the American public — and one that illustrates how tragic and dangerous is the absence of an honest news media for challenging such insolent gambits. The President can barely totter into a room now without making some embarrassing pratfall or gaffe. He couldn’t possibly survive a debate, especially with all the new records of his crimes unearthed since the last time around in 2020 when he pretended to know nothing about his son’s business dealings.

Gaetz has doubts ‘sad and pathetic’ McCarthy will follow through on Biden impeachment

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) expressed skepticism that Speaker Kevin McCarthy is serious about impeaching President Joe Biden and has “no real intent to follow through” on holding the deeply corrupt Democrat accountable.

The Florida Republican appeared on MSNBC where he rejected McCarthy’s assertion that the source of the tension between the two lawmakers was his being upset about an ethics probe into allegations of sex trafficking, a case that was closed by the Biden Justice Department.

Gaetz reacted to McCarthy’s remarks on Wednesday’s edition of “The Beat” with Ari Melber, blasting McCarthy as “a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold on to power” before the subject turned to the speaker’s waffling on the Biden impeachment inquiry that he just announced.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the leader of the rebellion that ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week, has long enraged the Beltway establishment.

Gaetz has blazed an unusual path, frequently partnering with House Democrats against powerful special interest groups. He backed regulation to weaken the power of Silicon Valley technology giants and fought to restrict weapons transfers to Ukraine and Saudi Arabia.

In a message posted earlier today, Gaetz floated a sweeping ethics reform package as a key demand moving forward. He offered to partner with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on legislation to ban congressional stock trading, institute a twelve-year term limit for lawmakers, and ban lobbyist and PAC donations, in exchange for his support to increase the threshold for removing the Speaker of the House. The motion to vacate change has been demanded by GOP officials concerned about future political volatility.

But industry insiders are pushing back.

Cesar Conda, a former aide to Dick Cheney, whose defense industry lobbying firm Navigators Global helps the Ukrainian government secure American funds, scorned Gaetz as an “arsonist” and endorsed a call for lawmakers to expel the Florida lawmaker from the Republican conference.

Americans for Tax Reform, a dark money group funded in part by Amazon, Google, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unveiled a radio and digital advertising campaign against Gaetz yesterday, accusing him of spending "too much time chasing TV cameras."

Gaetz has blazed an unusual path, frequently partnering with House Democrats against powerful special interest groups. He backed regulation to weaken the power of Silicon Valley technology giants and fought to restrict weapons transfers to Ukraine and Saudi Arabia.

In a message posted earlier today, Gaetz floated a sweeping ethics reform package as a key demand moving forward. He offered to partner with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on legislation to ban congressional stock trading, institute a twelve-year term limit for lawmakers, and ban lobbyist and PAC donations, in exchange for his support to increase the threshold for removing the Speaker of the House. The motion to vacate change has been demanded by GOP officials concerned about future political volatility.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has alleged that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is still leading the Democrats from the shadows, with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) serving as “just a frontman.”

During an appearance on Newsmax, Gaetz said Pelosi “still rules with an iron fist.” ...

Gaetz said it is Pelosi’s control of House Democrats which allows them to stay in lockstep.

“By the way, she’s still the one in charge of that conference,” Gaetz continued

“I mean, Hakeem Jeffries is the frontman, but the person who’s really calling the shots among the Democrats is Nancy Pelosi.”

Gaetz said it is Pelosi’s control of House Democrats which allows them to stay in lockstep.

Stretch Face Nancy Pelosi