House Ethics Committee investigating Gaetz over Cohen threats

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Source: The Hill





By Cristina Marcos - 06/28/19 01:21 PM EDT



The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is formally investigating whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attempted to intimidate President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of his testimony to Congress earlier this year.

In a statement, Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Kenny Marchant (Texas), the panel's ranking Republican, said that Gaetz declined their request to appear before the committee for an in-person interview in May.

The Ethics Committee said it told Gaetz that it wouldn't be able to resolve the ethics complaint against him without his testimony and warned that if it couldn't dispose of the complaint by June 24, the rules would require formally opening an investigative subcommittee to review the allegations.

Gaetz defended his refusal to cooperate with the investigation.

"If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it’s certainly their prerogative. I won’t be joining them in the endeavor," Gaetz said in a statement Friday..................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/450907-house-ethics-committee-investigating-rep-gaetz-for-threatening-michael-cohen

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Link to tweet

I sure hope something can be pinned on this smelly smartypants.



Gaetz Pans New Ethics Probe For ‘Psychoanalyzing My Tweets’ About Michael Cohen



https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/matt-gaetz-michael-cohen-psychoanalyzing-my-tweets


June 28, 2019 2:32 pm

The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is opening an investigative subcommittee to look into whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sought to improperly influence or even threaten former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen ahead of Cohen’s February congressional testimony.



The subcommittee was established because Gaetz declined to be interviewed by the committee, according to a committee press release.

Gaetz was blunt in response.

“If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it’s certainly their prerogative,” he said in a statement his press secretary sent to TPM. “I won’t be joining them in the endeavor.”

The investigation stems from a tweet Gaetz sent on the eve of Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee in February.

The tweet, since deleted, read: “Hey @MichaelCohen212 – Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot …”......................................

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1. Good. Let's see what the smarmy brat claims *to know*. Maybe he's like Trump and is projecting his

own actions onto others. Maybe HE's the married man with the girlfriends.

[BlueIdaho]

2. Big mistake on his part.

The fact that both the Democratic Chair and the ranking Republican member aren’t happy could put him in legislative limbo for the foreseeable future. What a stupid little cock sucker.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Will this wipe that smirk off his fat face?

I think he should be psychoanalyzed since he certainly has many problems and doesn't belong in DC. I hate him!!!!!

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4. His home district has been embarrassed by him for a long time

Northwest Florida, has Gaetz embarrassed you yet?
Andy Marlette, News Journal Cartoonist Published 6:00 a.m. CT Feb. 3, 2018

So a congressman and a white supremacist walk into the State of the Union…

Sounds like joke, right? Nope. It actually happened, thanks to Northwest Florida’s finest, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz.

We get what we vote for. But did anyone think they were getting a guy who goes on dude-dates with fascists to the State of the Union?

Did anyone know they were getting a congressman who would hang out with wackadoo radio hosts like Alex Jones who deny school shootings, moon landings and the Sept. 11 attacks?

Northwest Florida, has Matt Gaetz embarrassed you yet?

Much, much more: https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2018/02/03/northwest-florida-has-gaetz-embarrassed-you-yet/1087762001/

Florida Panhandle’s GOP politics: Sex, lies, and dead bodies
By Wayne Madsen
Posted on August 29, 2016

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Matt Gaetz, currently a member of the Florida House of Representatives, portrays himself to the Bible-thumping voters of the Panhandle as a God-fearing conservative. However, even a partial glance at Gaetz’s record reveals at least seven arrests for drunk driving and a reputed alternate gay life style. Gaetz’s politically powerful father Don ensured that none of the arrests led to prosecutions.

The current U.S. House hopeful Matt Gaetz saw his political career launched when he became a legislative aide to Florida’s Republican House Speaker Ray Sansom. Sansom, who succeeded Marco Rubio as Speaker, was pressured to hire Matt by the elder Gaetz. Sansom fired Gaetz twice due to his aide’s DWI arrests and Gaetz’s habit of speaking on behalf of the Speaker without clearing statements first with his boss.

Sansom represented Florida’s 4th House district. In 2010, Sansom resigned after he was indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges by Leon County state prosecutor Willie Meggs. The Florida House’s campaign to have Sansom resign over his alleged ethical violations was led by Don Gaetz, who then arranged to run his son Matt to fill the vacant 4th district seat in a special election. Matt Gaetz won and was easily re-elected in 2014 with no Democratic opponent. After Meggs was indicted, Florida prosecutors dropped all criminal charges against Sansom. However, the political damage to the former Florida House Speaker was done. Matt Gaetz and his father used the corrupt prosecutor-manufactured political grave of Sansom to launch Gaetz’s current campaign for the U.S. House.

And what would be Panhandle politics without a dead body? Gaetz’s roommate at Florida State University was reportedly found dead under suspicious circumstances while they were undergraduate students. The same political machine that drove Sansom from office was used to cover up the circumstances of the roommate’s death. Sources close to the investigation of the death, however, told WMR that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the death as a possible homicide but the agency was later politically-pressured to rule it a suicide. As with Gaetz’s multiple DWIs, the suspicious death of his college roommate was buried by Florida authorities and the university.

More: http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/18966

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5. Intimidation, pure and simple

It’s disgusting and he needs to answer for it. Daddy Trumpbucks can’t protect you from Congressional Investigation.