Matt Gaetz exposed GOP’s illegitimate Biden impeachment effort at invitation-only fundraiser: report
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who spearheaded a successful effort this week to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker of the House, compared the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with U.S. “forever wars,” telling former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, “I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of” the president.
Gaetz made the remark at an “invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week,” NBC News reports, where he and fellow House Freedom Caucus member Rep, Matt Rosendale (R-MT) “heaped skepticism on the probe.”
“They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment,” Gaetz told Bannon, according to NBC News. “And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw.”
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“I just don’t get the sense that it’s for the sake of impeachment,” Gaetz added, “I think it’s for the sake of having another bad thing to say about Joe Biden.”
NBC News reports:
Gaetz, Rosendale and the small faction of Republicans who ousted McCarthy (R-CA) still hold tremendous leverage as the House tries to find a replacement. Whether the group could seek to use that leverage to extract concessions from the future speaker — including how the House proceeds on issues like impeachment — is yet to be seen. One of the impeachment leaders is also a candidate for speaker, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
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Rosendale likened Congress’ probe of Biden to the federal indictment of the president’s son Hunter, which critics say has been tainted by preferential treatment and argue is a “smokescreen” intended to deflect attention from more serious crimes they accuse Hunter Biden of having committed, like working for foreign interests to influence U.S. policy.
While Gaetz insisted “he meant no offense to Jordan” or House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), he told attendees, “if this was serious, we would have sent a subpoena to Hunter Biden.”
