Matt Gaetz has a sad

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:

Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
·
Jun 23, 2022
The January 6 Committee is an unconstitutional political sideshow. It is rapidly losing the interest of the American people and now resorts to siccing federal law enforcement on political opponents.

Jess Balzer
@Balzer_Jess
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Well, well, well…

Acyn
@Acyn
“How do you know Gaetz asked for a pardon?”
“He told me”
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2:43 PM · Jun 23, 2022

And just about every response to his tweet is "Pardon me?"

[superpatriotman]

1. When do the indictments start?

Or will they?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Watch for this one at some point

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142933712

[Kingofalldems]

7. Yep.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Clark will be toast

(apologize for unleashing that guy on the nation )

Jeffrey Clark, the Philly native who Trump almost named AG, will be a focus at today’s Jan. 6 hearing


by Jeremy Roebuck and Ryan W. Briggs
Updated 4 hours ago

Decades before he became a central figure in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Jeffrey Bossert Clark was a bespectacled teenager who grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and graduated from Father Judge High School with a string of academic and extracurricular achievements.

Those who’ve known him throughout his professional life have described him as a quiet and unassuming workhorse. Several of his former classmates at the Catholic school in Holmesburg say he was so unobtrusive they don’t recall him at all. But on Thursday, Clark will find himself in a national spotlight as the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack focuses on his role in an averted plot to use the Justice Department to reverse the election results and hand Trump a second term.

Senior Justice Department officials have testified that Trump came close to appointing Clark — then acting head of the department’s Civil Division — as acting attorney general after he proposed using DOJ’s powers to pressure state lawmakers in Georgia to contest the state’s election outcome. The plan ultimately fizzled when several DOJ leaders threatened to resign.

On Wednesday, federal agents descended upon Clark’s suburban Virginia home in connection with the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry into efforts to overturn the election, The New York Times reported. Clark did not respond to The Inquirer’s requests for comment this week. But his role in the events now under scrutiny caught those who knew him in his Philadelphia days — like former Father Judge classmate Walter Jahn — by surprise.

(snip)

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/jeffrey-clark-jan-6-committee-hearing-trump-philadelphia-20220623.html

[erronis]

15. Might want to put Clark in protective custody. Both as a suicide risk but also because putin/trump

may want to silence him.

[rubbersole]

37. Well, wouldn't that be a bummer.

We'd miss him 😢.

[COL Mustard]

51. As Captain Ramius said to the political officer in "The Hunt for Red October"

Tea?

[Midnight Writer]

3. "siccing federal law enforcement on political opponents"? Are they chanting Lock Her Up?

Have they appointed a Special Prosecutor?

Are they offering to pay legal fees for traitors?

Are they naming people for harassment by mobs?

Do they have a pardon list of Democrats sitting on the President's desk?

[Lonestarblue]

23. Have they publicly called for their Second Amendment solution for Trump?

[SheltieLover]

4. More projection.

Yawn...

[gratuitous]

5. Let me guess, Rep. Gaetz

The hearings have your attention now, don't they?

[live love laugh]

6. A hit dog is hollering.

[magicarpet]

9. An empty galvanized steel trash can makes more noise,...

..... while rolling down the street than a full one does.

[mercuryblues]

10. I beg your pardon

[Marcuse]

32. "Whatever happened to the Rose Garden?"

[intheflow]

38. 😂😂😂

[rubbersole]

60. Dr. Jill is restoring it.

The Slovenian sex worker fucked something else up.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Make them all testify under oath whether or not they received Pocket Pardons.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

12. "unconstitutional political sideshow" ?????

Benghazi. Benghazi. Benghazi.

[Liberal In Texas]

27. They keep saying UNCONSTITUTIONAL without a whiff of evidence as to why

it would be. It's like most if not all of their claims. All hot air and no examples or proof.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

30. They think that if they throw this word around enough, people will fall for their BS.

[Aviation Pro]

13. Pardon me, Buckethead

But we’re just getting started, rapist.

[lillypaddle]

14. I stole your heading for twitter

@Nevilledog, but I gave you credit.

[Nevilledog]

16. ...

[erronis]

17. Is gaetz's daddy still bailing him out? I think Don Gaetz (father) has a checkered/corrupt career.

Every now and then a family just needs to use "tough love" and let someone like Matt sink or swim.

Actually the (r)epuglicon party needs to do this with the majority of its members. Oh, wait - they won't have any power anymore...

[alwaysinasnit]

18. Would that blanket pardon have covered anything coming out of the investigation into his

alleged child trafficking?

[Nevilledog]

22. Federal charges, yes

[alwaysinasnit]

29. Thanks. Definitely federal investigations.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/577970-justice-department-adds-2-top-prosecutors-in-gaetz-investigation/

The Justice Department (DOJ) has added two top prosecutors to its Florida-based investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), The New York Times reported.

One of the prosecutors is a public corruptions investigator with expertise in child exploitation cases, and the other is a top leader of the DOJ’s public corruption unit.

The prosecutors have been working on the investigation for at least three months, the newspaper reported, citing people briefed on the matter.

One of the prosecutors is Todd Gee, who is deputy chief of the DOJ’s public integrity section within the criminal division. That section is involved in nearly all major criminal investigations into federal and local officials.

snip...

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. "from the beginning of time up until today, for any and all things"

Specifically, Gaetz had been asking for a pardon since "early December," Hutchinson said, noting Reps. Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert and Scott Perry also sought pardons from the White House. John McEntee, a former White House aide, also said Gaetz had told him he asked Meadows for a pardon.
...
Eric Herschmann, a Trump White House lawyer, told the committee in a videotaped interview that Gaetz sought a pardon "from the beginning of time up until today, for any and all things."

https://www.knau.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-06-23/republican-lawmakers-asked-the-white-house-for-pardons-before-and-after-jan-6

[alwaysinasnit]

35. Thanks!

[panader0]

19. Well, if Matt Gaetz says that it's an unconstitutional political sideshow,

I'm sure the J6 committee will stop it immediately!

[cloudboy07]

20. matty is falling out of the sky like a sack of shit !!!

Too late for a deal ! HE's toast ! might as well get a designer jump suit ! It all depends on who get's him first now ! Friends are going to drop him like a hot spud!

[COL Mustard]

52. When you see a sack of shit falling out of the sky, my professional advice is.....

Get the hell out of the way.

[cloudboy07]

55. agreed 100 % !

[Mr.Bill]

21. As soon as they call something unconstitutional,

you know they have no argument or knowledge of the topic.

[Nevilledog]

26. It's not like they believe in the actual constitution.

[Mr.Bill]

44. Many of them act as if they have never read it.

With Trump leading the pack.

[cloudboy07]

57. they haven't! most of congress critter's majored in stupid 101 !

[SoCalDavidS]

24. I Thought Joel Greenberg's Information Got Him Indicted In May 2021

At least that's what I recall many here on DU saying was moments away from happening.

Oh well, I'm sure he'll be charged sometime this century. Or not.

[niyad]

25. I have a sad that there IS a matt gaetz.

[Best_man23]

28. Hey Matt

Perhaps this was the REAL reason you wanted that pardon.

[halfulglas]

31. Gaetz calls J6 a political sideshow?

How does a political sideshow call something else a political sideshow? Rich kid Gaetz with his tough guy concerned for real Americans act.

[IcyPeas]

33. Hey, where's Nestor anyway?

[aggiesal]

36. No, no, you don't understand ...

I said "Pardon me" to Meadows, because I was trying to get past him.

[LudwigPastorius]

39. But, but,...but...

That's different!!

He asked for THAT pardon for statutory rape and trafficking underage girls, NOT for insurrection!

[NNadir]

40. The best part is that he was applying for pardons before attempting to over throw the government.

Must be that thing with the underage girls.

[Grammy23]

41. I want to see the pictures of Clark

at dawn, standing in his jammies out in his yard. Oh, please say there are pictures. 🙏🙏🙏

[Aerator]

48. He was wearing MAGA pj,s holding a Trumpy Bear

[Grammy23]

61. Yep!

[William769]

42. He's the scum on scum.

[Karma13612]

43. According to Hutchinson,

Jordan didn’t ask her for a pardon, but did inquire about the status of pardons.

I noticed that some news outlets are translating this into “Jordan didn’t ask for a pardon”.

I think that is over-generalizing. Isn’t it possible that Jordan might have asked for a pardon thru a different communication with the oval office/TFG? Just because she wasn’t aware of a request doesn’t mean he did not ask for one.

I am going to be kinda frustrated if it turns out Jordan comes out squeaky clean. I cannot stand this guy.

[Efilroft Sul]

45. Pedo says what?

[ZonkerHarris]

46. Shouldn't he be clearing his browser history right now, again?

[Evolve Dammit]

47. Whatever happened to his sex traffiking case?

[GoCubsGo]

49. So, I guess "rapidly losing the interest"is the latest GOP narrative.

Seems they're all spewing that line this evening. I think the committee touched a few nerves again today...

[Iggo]

50. Matt Gaetz fucks children. (n/t)

[Cha]

53. Lol! FO Gaslit Lying Sack o SHIT.. Time to pay, Gaetz

💙💛

[underpants]

54. McEntee was one of the more interesting stories of the Clustertrump

Carried out without his jacket.

[LuckyCharms]

56. I think he's going to have more than a sad soon.

[cloudboy07]

58. he's just a frat boy ! just speeding up D.O.J. !

please run mouth more ! remind's me of south end of a north bound jack-ass !

[LuckyCharms]

59. LOL...

We say something similar where I live: "Looks like the South end of a goat who is walking North".