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Matt Gaetz: Well, they may be calling on the Vice President, but based on his letter, he is not answering. Everybody in this country…

On the recordJanuary 12, 2021
Well, they may be calling on the Vice President, but based on his letter, he is not answering. Everybody in this country knows that they wanted to impeach President Trump on his first day in office. And it looks like they are going to want to impeach him on his last day too. But all he did in the middle was rescue our economy, rebuild our military, reform the VA, and reduce America's involvement in foreign wars. Now, I join the bipartisan caucus condemning the violence that we saw at our Capitol, but the hypocrisy is just downright disorienting. President Trump called for protests that would be peaceful and patriotic. He got labeled a national security threat. Yet the gentlewoman from California can call on her supporters to get physical and in the faces of Republicans, and she gets the chairmanship of the Financial Services Committee. Republican Members of Congress utilized a process contemplated in the Constitution to offer an objection, and we were labeled seditionists. Democrat Members of Congress raised funds for groups attacking our police, burning our cities, destroying our businesses, establishing autonomous zones, and they were celebrated as justice warriors. Wednesday, they called for unity, democracy, and healing. Now, just days later, seeking power and political advantage, the Democrats have reverted to the mean. They have gone back to their natural state: the party of impeachment, removal, and division.…
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Matt Gaetz
Republican · Florida
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Jan 12, 2021

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