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sabra

(30,406 posts)
Fri Oct 6, 2023, 01:34 PM Oct 2023

During an online fundraiser, Matt Gaetz denounced the Biden impeachment effort as unserious

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Days before Rep. Matt Gaetz led an effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, Gaetz and Rep. Matt Rosendale, a fellow Freedom Caucus member, denounced as a political stunt Republicans’ high-stakes effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a video obtained by NBC News.

At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe.

“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion.

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Gaetz said: “I just don’t get the sense that it’s for the sake of impeachment. I think it’s for the sake of having another bad thing to say about Joe Biden.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gaetz-biden-impeachment-rosendale-rcna119131

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During an online fundraiser, Matt Gaetz denounced the Biden impeachment effort as unserious (Original Post) sabra Oct 2023 OP
Gaetz and a conscience? kevinore Oct 2023 #1
You should worry... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #3
Sounds like... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #2

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)
3. You should worry...
Fri Oct 6, 2023, 04:18 PM
Oct 2023

He only knows how to pretend to be diplomatic while he tries to turn it into a benefit for him.

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