Gaetz is going after Guest.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is embroiled in an investigation for alleged crimes by the House Ethics Committee, fired a salvo at its top GOP chair Michael Guest (R-MS) at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“Word is, I now have problems with the Ethics Committee,” the Florida pol and MAGA stalwart said while he took the stage on Friday in a session titled “Burning Down the House.” "Which seems really odd to me because I’m the one screaming loudest for actual ethics reforms.”
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A probe was launched into Gaetz by the committee to determine if he had sex with an underage girl while serving as a Congress member.
It comes on the heels of the Department of Justice's decision last year to shutter their probe without charges.
Prosecutors logged months of investigation looking at Gaetz's actions as to whether he paid women for sex and traveled overseas with underage teens along with his associate and Florida tax collector, Joel Greenberg.
From the first, Gaetz has defended himself as being beyond reproach and accused the Ethics Committee as taking him on as payback for removing former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from his powerful perch.
Gaetz took aim at Guest's financial disclosures and suggested they may be sketchy, stating he has “become a brilliant stock trader while in office.”
He said: “For the same reason you don’t let the umpire bet on the game, members of Congress should not be allowed to trade individual stocks."
"How about the Ethics Committee take up those reforms?”
According to Business Insider, Guest paid a $200 fine after coming forward to the Ethics Committee in 2021, where he served, to relay a particular personal family stock he didn't disclose.
But it appears Gaetz was accusing Guest's more recent winnings in the market.
“When I offer these critiques that include the conduct of some fellow Republicans I catch a lot of heat,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer to just fight the Democrats but if the Republicans are going to dress up like Democrats in drag then I will lead the fight against them too.”
He also warned of unnamed people trying to muscle him out.
"... I don't give a rip if they boo me on the floor, if they hate me and their corrupt little souls, and they can even try to expel me on bulls--- if they want, but this is a movement that the uni-party cannot kill."
