News: Rep. Matt Gaetz tells me he'll be joining Trump aboard Air Force One for his trip to...

[demmiblue]

Allan Smith? Verified account @akarl_smith

News: Rep. Matt Gaetz tells me he'll be joining Trump aboard Air Force One for his trip to Florida on Friday.

1:44 PM - 14 Feb 2018

Link to tweet

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“These guys are performing for the president when they go on TV,” said Jason Roe, a longtime Republican strategist who is consulting on a series of at-risk House districts in California.

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, a first-term Republican who is one of Mr. Trump’s most visible champions outside the White House staff, all but said as much.

Mr. Gaetz, who used the State of the Union speech to snag a selfie with Mr. Trump in the House chamber, has said the president is “about as popular in my district as oxygen.” He acknowledged that the tax bill was far more politically urgent than arguments about Russia and conceded that his on-air denunciations of Mr. Mueller served no electoral purpose. But for good measure, he said, he has been urging colleagues to warn voters in 2018 that Democrats could impeach Mr. Trump.

He also boasted that he had found a particular audience for his cable news forays: Mr. Trump, he said, “calls me frequently and shares his thoughts on my television appearances.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/us/politics/tax-cuts-election-message-trump.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[FSogol]

1. The next WH chief of staff?

[gratuitous]

2. Looks like Gaetz is angling for something

We'll probably know soon enough.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. For the sake of those on board, I hope he won't be flying the plane.

[John Fante]

4. "The president is about as popular in my district as oxygen."'

Shame that oxygen doesn't make it to their pea-sized brains.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Sounds like another Nunes. eom

[IluvPitties]

6. Sieg Heil!

[FreeStateDemocrat]

7. Drunk driving and traffic violations In 2008, Gaetz was arrested for a DUI as he was driving back...

... from the Swamp, a nightclub on Okaloosa Island, Florida, in a 2001 BMW SUV registered to his father. While he was arrested and refused to take a breathalyzer test, "he didn't have his license suspended for a year when he refused the breath test—as Florida law dictates. And he didn't have that refusal used against him in a criminal proceeding." At the time of his arrest and consequent criminal proceedings, his father was serving as a local politician. The attorneys agreed to drop the case, despite the fact that the police reported that "Gaetz fumbled for his license and registration, his eyes were watery and bloodshot, and he swayed and staggered when he got out of the car," and Gaetz cited the dropped charges as proof that he was innocent.[52]

Between 1999 and 2014, Gaetz received 16 speeding tickets in Florida.[53]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

NEPOTISM a puke virtue.

How fucking stupid are Florida voters or how fucking corrupt is the political process there???

[Paladin]

8. Is all that enough to keep him from getting a full security clearance?

I hope so. Gaetz makes my skin crawl.

[magicarpet]

9. Gaetz is a good Nazi boy for ...

.... King of Orange the Shit-gibbon. This little Fascist twerp is on Air Force One more than Hope Hicks. I wish Gaetz would get nailed real good by Mueller for repeated and habitual obstruction of justice and meddling in an active federal criminal case.

This boy is a Nazi blowhard who thinks he should be on the Fascist fast track to be the vice-presi-dunce.

He is a Nazi big mouth who thinks his shit smells like Jean Nat'e perfume. A swollen image of inflated self worth - but he is nothing but an infected septic pus bag.