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Gaetz’s bizarre tactic continued Sunday night, when his office blasted out a press release, on official letterhead, about a former employee holding a Monday press briefing about a “recent encounter with the FBI.”
Florida congressman has publicly denied any wrongdoing Nathan Nelson, a former director of military affairs for Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., pushed back against the FBI after he said two agents questioned him as part of an ongoing investigation of the congressman. Nelson told reporters during a Monday news conference that when agents went to his house to question him, they made it seem that they believed Nelson resigned because he was aware of Gaetz’s involvement in illegal activity. Nelson said that was false, and his departure from Gaetz’s office had been planned in advance. "This baseless...
Gaetz offered a different line of attack in a Monday opinion piece for the In the piece, Gaetz broadly defends his past sexual lifestyle without delving into specifics—and notes that he previously defended former Democratic representative Katie Hill when she was caught up in her own sex-based ethics scandal involving a staffer and her ex-husband (which ultimately resulted in her resignation). “My lifestyle of yesteryear may be different from how I live now, but it was not and is not illegal,” Gaetz wrote. “I defended Rep. Katie Hill’s ‘throuple’ when her own Democratic colleag...
"Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal," Rep. Matt Gaetz said in the op-ed.
The political peril for conservative Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz deepened Friday as the often outlandish, Trump-styled provocateur appeared politically isolated amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation. Few Republicans rushed to offer any kind of support to the three-term Florida congressman known for espousing high-volume attacks — sometimes against those in his own party — during his…