Matt Gaetz insists he wasn’t paying ‘much attention’ as he got burned during hearing – but video shows otherwise
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) lied when he was speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju that he wasn’t paying much attention when Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) explained that members with DUIs probably shouldn’t be attacking someone for drug usage.
“I didn’t pay much attention to it …I’m focused on the president .. I don’t think Americans are hanging on a traffic incident I had a decade ago,” Gaetz told Raju.
Just asked Matt Gaetz about Johnson comments. “I didn’t pay much attention to it …I’m focused on the president .. I don’t think Americans are hanging on a traffic incident I had a decade ago,” Gaetz told me https://t.co/cTHenFIsl5
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 12, 2019
It wasn’t factually accurate as videos show Gaetz paying quite a bit of attention and seemingly upset.
You can see the exchange in the video below:
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Fox News legal analyst bucks his network and lays out why Trump’s attack on impeachment is bogus
Judge Andrew Napolitano has been one of the political wild cards at Fox News: like his colleague Chris Wallace — but unlike so many others at the right-wing cable news outlet — Napolitano doesn’t see it as his job to reflexively defend everything President Donald Trump says and does. And Napolitano, in an op-ed published on Fox News’ website this week, takes issue with Trump’s assertions that his impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate is a “hoax.”
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‘Your head will be on a pike’: GOP senators warned to stay on Trump’s side in impeachment trial
Republican senators received a violently metaphorical threat before the impeachment vote.
One of President Donald Trump's confidantes said GOP senators were warned not to vote for impeachment -- or else, reported CBS News.
“Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike," senators were told, according to the confidante.
It's not clear who delivered the message or how it was sent.
So far, the network reported, all 53 GOP senators' heads appear to be safe.
None of them have signaled they will vote to convict Trump and remove him from office.
In opening statements, House managers examined the debunked conspiracy theories invoked by Pres. Trump.
With the Senate impeachment trial in full swing, Republicans have launched an aggressive if scattershot campaign to defend President Donald Trump and discredit the Democrats’ case.
It’s not going well. Multiple recent polls have found that a majority of the country thinks Trump should be removed from office and many more think he has done something seriously wrong, even if they think he should remain in the White House until the next election.
While the Democrats have unleashed a torrent of facts and compelling arguments for the charges that Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress, Republican replies have been all over the map. Many of their arguments are completely beside the point of the case, and the sheer weakness of their defenses is an embarrassment to the party.
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