Matt Gaetz's wife dragged into MSNBC discussion on alleged sex and drug parties

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Symone Sanders Townsend joined in to talk about the chaos surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination to be Donald Trump's next attorney general and the cloud being cast over it by a reportedly "damaging" House Ethics Committee report.

With the Florida Republican meeting with GOP senators this week and attempting to downplay accusations he engaged in drug and sex parties with underaged women reportedly alleged in the report, Sanders Townsend wondered aloud why the wife of Gaetz has not come forward to defend her husband.

She also singled out Fox News personality Pete Hegseth who is having to deal with a police report that details an alleged sexual assault in 2017 as he works toward becoming Trump's next Defense Department secretary.

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With host Joe Scarborough stating he didn't think Gaetz wouldn't be confirmed regardless of the sex party accusations, Symone Sanders offered, "I don't want to sound like people are saying, 'Oh, well, you don't think the sexual assault allegations and the rape allegations as it relates to Pete Hegseth are serious and the paying underaged women for sex is serious.' I think it is very serious frankly."

"And does Matt Gaetz have a wife? Does Pete Hegseth have a wife?" she asked. "I want to hear from the wives, honey, and what the hell is going on up in the House? That is another story entirely."

She later added, "Matt Gaetz's basic qualification for the attorney general is that he was a lawyer for a hot second? I mean, he lost his bar license in Florida, frankly, over the last year and a half, and had to have it reinstated because he didn't pay his dues. This is about the basic qualifications and these other things, these salacious details, are cherries on top, like I said, of a very nasty, already unqualified cake."

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