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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. @mattgaetz invited a white supremacist to the State of the Union, attempted to intimidate a
federal witness, and endorsed a sociopathic bigot who applauded the deaths of migrants for congress. I just donated to his opponent
@PhilEhr
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GOP lawmaker condemned for inviting Holocaust denier to State of the Union
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/state-of-the-union-matt-gaetz-charles-johnson
A Florida congressman is under fire for inviting a Holocaust denier to the State of the Union on Tuesday.
Matt Gaetz, a first-term Florida Republican, insisted that he gave the ticket to Charles C Johnson only by happenstance, telling the Daily Beast that the notorious alt-right troll just showed up at my office on the day of the speech.
The Anti-Defamation League wrote an open letter to Gaetz denouncing his choice to invite Johnson and urging the politician to cut ties with him. It is an insult to the memories of those killed in the Holocaust, to their families, and to the Jewish community to bring to the State of the Union as your guest a Holocaust denier, the group said.
Johnson, who was permanently banned from Twitter in 2015 after asking for help taking out a Black Lives Matter activist, denied the Holocaust in a 2017 Reddit Ask Me Anything. I do not and never have believed the six million figure, he said. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic. Johnson also added that he thought the second world war was the result of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world.
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Rep. @mattgaetz invited a white supremacist to the State of the Union, attempted to intimidate a (Original Post)
Celerity
Sep 2020
OP
Aside from Trump, Gaetz has to be one of the smarmiest, most loathsome charachters in
smirkymonkey
Sep 2020
#2
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Ehr Force! Love it!
Gaetz belongs behind bars!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. Aside from Trump, Gaetz has to be one of the smarmiest, most loathsome charachters in
politics. He is absolutely revolting. I honestly hope he wraps himself around a tree in a DUI one of these days. I have this creepy feeling that he is priming himself to be Trump's successor.
Celerity
(43,333 posts)3. Gym Jordan as well, those two are the scum twins of the House. Pure vermin.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. Ugh! Yes!
The two of them are absolute scum. They both make my skin crawl.
Celerity
(43,333 posts)6. and Louie Gohmert as the creepy-vulgar uncle who smells of unwashed socks and failure
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)4. Just gave him 10 bucks...all I can I afford. Helping others Running against the
Cons men...I thought Bloomberg was supposed to fund the down races?
underpants
(182,788 posts)7. Getting worn OUT by Cryer on Twitter
crickets
(25,968 posts)8. Go get him, Phil. K&R