Matt Gaetz was not having a good day to begin with by anybody’s standards, but he is determined to make it worse, evidently. He showed his true colors as a submoronic frat boy earlier Wednesday when he locked horns with General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin. They were actually quite gracious to him, but they also made it clear that they weren’t buying his b.s. right that moment.
That would have been a bad enough press day for anybody, the rebuke of two military heavyweights, but Gaetz doesn’t know when to quit and so he kept making an idiot out of himself. VICE News:
“If Democrats want to defund the police, they should start with the FBI,” Gaetz wrote, before deleting it almost immediately. The post was only up for one minute, according to ProPublica’s Politiwoops, which tracks politicians’ deleted tweets.
A SCREENSHOT OF REP. MATT GAETZ’S DELETED TWEET, ARCHIVED BY PROPUBLICA.
A Gaetz spokesperson said that the congressman “felt it appropriate to remove a jocular tweet taken from a speech some time ago” because he takes oversight of the FBI so seriously.
The spokesperson also demanded that VICE News run the statement in full or not at all, which we did not agree to do. But here it is anyway, so you can see it for yourself.
“Given how seriously Rep. Gaetz treats his interactions with the FBI — especially his latest work in pursuing the facts surrounding Chinese defector Dr. Li Meng Yan and her safety in the United States — Rep. Gaetz felt it appropriate to remove a jocular tweet taken from a speech some time ago. He looks forward to hearing back from FBI Director Christopher Wray on what the FBI knew about the COVID-19 origins when Dr. Yan first came to the U.S. in early 2020.”
This is a reference to Gaetz’s demand for a briefing with FBI Director Christopher Wray over the FBI’s interactions with a purported whistleblower who has claimed that COVID-19 was created in a lab. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security said in a September report that the claims put forward by Yan “offer contradictory and inaccurate information that does not support their argument.”
By anybody’s standards Gaetz has done enough damage for one day and it’s time to chill. But no, Sir. Gaetz decided it was time to go full Donald Trump on Twitter.
With Generals like this it’s no wonder we’ve fought considerably more wars than we’ve won. https://t.co/wt43YAs6cU
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) June 23, 2021
Matt was so thoroughly embarrassed that he decided to rage-tweet a slander on America's entire military history.
— ? (@9teen80four) June 23, 2021
Gaetz is an ignorant ass and belongs in prison. He couldn’t carry any military member’s water. https://t.co/5gfwJb3g1R
— Dr. Steve Woodsmall, Major, USAF-Retired (@SteveWoodsmall) June 23, 2021
This needed to be said. Glad it was one of our military leaders.
And Matt Gaetz is a punk. https://t.co/VlDhb34AxQ
— Paul C. (@TheFeistyFinn) June 23, 2021
I’m glad Stonekettle is riled. He’s a veteran. Gaetz, OTOH, is Trump Lite. Thank God we have men and women like Secretary Austin and General Milley, because if we had the likes of Gaetz and Trump keeping us safe, we would be gone in a heartbeat. America would be but a memory.
This is not going to age well for Matt Gaetz. And CRT as a talking point and a front in the culture war may not stand up well for too much longer, either.
