'Folks think they can get to the president through me because I work with the president a lot, talk to the president a lot,' Matt Gaetz told Fox News' Martha MacCallum.
GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz dismissed the House Ethics Committee's investigation into him over a threat he issued publicly to President Donald Trump's former attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen before he testified to Congress earlier this year.
"We've got members of Congress, Maxine Waters actually incite violence against Republicans and supporters of the president," Gaetz explained."We have Rashida Tlaib, before the ink was even dry on her election certificate, using profanity to talk about how she's going to impeach the president." "That's garbage," Gaetz said, before suggesting that there"may be a coordinated effort to go after people like me, people like Kellyanne Conway, who are effective advocates for a transformational president."
Responding to critics, Gaetz defended the statement, calling it"witness testing, not witness tampering."
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