Matt Gaetz: We will lock up the people who investigated Trump's crimes
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Matt Gaetz: We will lock up the people who investigated Trump's crimes
The Republican congressman wants Trump's enemies locked up for the 'crime' of investigating Trump's crimes.
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz — arguably Trump's most devoted lapdog in Congress — was part of the opening act for the MAGA rally in Florida Wednesday night, where Gaetz declared that those who investigate Trump should be locked up.
"If anybody tries to deprive us of this country we have earned," Gaetz shouted to the crowd, "if they try to undermine our president with lawless investigations, meaningless subpoenas, absurd contempt citations — we're going to turn the tables on them, we're going to investigate the investigators, and you're right! If it takes it, we will lock them up!"At which point, the crowd took its cue and started chanting"Lock them up!"
It's the kind of red-meat nonsense that Trump's rally-goers have come to expect: Those who dare to exercise congressional oversight of Trump's lawless administration are somehow behaving lawlessly. Those who were tasked with investigating Trump's obstruction of justice — and found several examples of it — are somehow the ones who deserve jail time. It's all bizarre, but that's what happens at a Trump rally.
It's also a bizarre argument coming from someone who is currently facing his own legal problems in Florida. Gaetz is under investigation for attempted witness tampering, after he publicly threatened Trump's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen in an effort to stop his damning testimony to Congress.
The threat didn't work, but it did land Gaetz in trouble with the Florida Bar Association, which decided this week to escalate its investigation of his behavior.
Gaetz isn't shy about using his role in Congress to protect Trump. He has openly admitted that the reason he's there is not the people of Florida he's supposed to represent but Trump.
"I don't know how I'd fit into this place in the absence of the president," Gaetz told Buzzfeed in March.
"I wake up every day and I do what I can to expose what I believe is an intractable bias among the people who are investigating the president."
Gaetz even floated the idea of officially abandoning his Florida constituents to run for Senate in Alabama, though he has supposedly ruled that out.
In April, Gaetz shared a video on social media supposedly watching Trump's wall being built on the border, to show that Trump really is keeping his promise. Except that he wasn't near the border and it wasn't really a wall; it was just a prototype demonstration in the middle of Arizona.
Now, in his latest demonstration of loyalty to Trump, Gaetz is calling for Trump's perceived enemies to be locked up. It's a tired refrain from 2016, when Trump and his rally-goers wanted Hillary Clinton locked up. And while they might all still believe she deserves prison time for the crime of being Hillary Clinton, at least now they can direct their "lock 'em up!" cheers at some new targets.
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Wow the turd Rump supporters aren't the brightest bulbs are they?
'Matt Gaetz: We Will Lock Up The People Who Investigated Trump's Crimes
Well at least it is a change from: "Lock her up".
I suppose they are going to require a larger jail.
I was kind of hoping they might come out with some fresh material for this cycle, this is akin to watching reruns of My Mother the Car.
I liked My Mother the Car a whole lot more than I like Trump. My intro to sci-fi.
I loved My Mother the Car... Of course, I was 7 years old.
Much like Trump, his adult supporters think like 7 year olds.
Thank you for admitting that Trump committed crimes. I hope this guy isn't a criminal defense lawyer.
Matt isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.........
But, it is open season on AOC and Ilan Omar. Did you see the malevolence of the faces of all those lying goppers on Nadler's committee the other day? The cameras illuminated all their mendacity and duplicity. Especially Gaetz.
They are strong intelligent women of ethnic descent whose skin has more melanin than Wonder Bread, so they are obvious targets of hate for Trump conservatives.
Why do they look so FUCKING ANGRY all the time?
Gaetz is Louis Gohmert with hair...
Political Impotence and Ideological Constipation...
I love the intellectual vacancy of Screwie Louie Gohmert.
It has to do with overly enlarged amygdala.
The drawer is sharper.
Matt Gaetz would finish in 3rd place on Jeopardy even if the other two contestants were potted plants.
Yes, the core of the "lizard brain" or in Gaetz's case just brain.
Overly enlarged amygdala thrive on anger and fear.
While I agree Gaetz is a certified looney toons, I say let the Dems investigate to their hearts content, just as long as it's their funds and not taxpayer money. After all, they are liable to be investigating for a long long time....
Nope, if the GOP can spend millions on BENGHAZI! the Dems can spend millions on investigating TRUMP.
The Mueller investigation was pretty much bought and paid for by Manafort's seized assets. So we're good.
Yeah, like you care about frivoluous spending. Shitbag's golf trips alone have already cost taxpayers $100M:
Trump Golf Count
My-my how the tables have turned.
^10
What is the topic?
If you have to ask then it's obvious you didn't read the article
I did and my comment was 100% on topic.
Dean, Please go to Metafied and read my comment.
'What is the topic?'
Matt Gaetz: We Will Lock Up The People Who Investigated Trump's Crimes
Trump committed no crimes, so the whole topic is pointless.
Then why did the dumb ass say they would lock up the people who investigated 'Rump's crimes'?
It was 100% juvenile and unrealistic.
Why bother since you restored his OFF TOPIC COMMENT
I appreciate you removing the comment which Perrie restored.
He just admitted otherwise.
I don't know, why don't you ask him.
Yes, it's 1-800-GOFUCKYOURSELF
Did she have a shrill, whiny voice?
Was it you who answered the call?
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Those who investigated Trump are exactly what you said.
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So report it otherwise you can call Matt Gaetz's office and vent. The number is posted at 2.2.15. Leave your complaint there.
Which hardly qualifies as an offence to be locked up for.
I have to admit, that was funny
Did he actually say that, or did the headline writer make it up?
Everything he said is in the article. The title just shortened it.
If you had read it, it's in the third paragraph
Hello McFly! One of your own admitted Trump has committed crimes.
The third paragraph doesn't actually have a quote. The word "lawless" is the author's.
Has he? Because the article does not seem to quote him doing so. Can you find the actual Gaetz statement?
Good point Mr. Fish. He can't lock anybody up. I don't know about handcuffs but he surely doesn't have the authority. He's throwing red meat to his ravenous base and his ravenous base isn't smart enough to realize that he can't do what he's promising.
Donald Trump has spent his whole life committting crimes. That's why his parents sent him to military school. Didn't work.
'The third paragraph doesn't actually have a quote. The word "lawless" is the author's.'
So what?
So it doesn't look like Gaetz actually said "Trump's crimes", which would render many of the comments on this seed pretty embarrassing.
In your alternate universe, sure.
The Mueller investigation did not in any way exonerate Donald Trump, despite what AG Barr tried to insinuate with his partisan summary.
Should Hillary do the same to those who have investigated her for more than a decade and still haven't proved that she so much as ignored a parking ticket, or does this idea only apply to Republicans? I don't like Hillary but if she didn't exist the GOP wouldn't have any way to defect the attention of Dittoheads from their politicians and their failed policies.
So you agree I'm correct.
Again.
Do endeavor to explain how that has any relationship to misquoting Matt Gaetz.
Then attempt to explain why gleeful posts about Gaetz referring to "Trump's crimes"....which of course he didn't actually do.....aren't just stupidly embarrassing to those who posted them.
Are you actually following my posts or do you maybe have me confused with somebody else?
Hint....if you'll re-read, you'll find that I've made no comment about further investigations.... only a few very silly NT posters mistaking a leftist blogger's headline for a US Congressman's quote.
The only thing accurate in that comment was
It doesn't get more delusional than that, Dean. But I have no doubt you try to top it in time.
This guy sounds like a tool. He considered leaving Florida to run in Alabama? That's a nice fuck you to his constituents
Alabama might be a better fit if Florida becomes more purple. Maybe he's the canary in the coal mine.
good point
Who votes for people like Gaetz? And why?
The fetus thing? Is that his appeal?
Tell them what they want to hear and they'll give you their 'hole' devotion... their elected leaders can literally do anything they want as long as they tell their constituents they'd vote against Roe v Wade and think every citizen has the right to discriminate based on their Christian faith.
Do your Congresspeople regularly vote on settled law?
Nope, but in those areas where Roe v Wade is extremely unpopular few have any real grasp on civics or what a congressman can or can't do. Just saying you'd vote against it is all they need to hear to believe you're on their side. You don't actually have to follow through with anything you promise them, they just have to believe you're "one of them" and they'll keep just about any incompetent piece of trash in office.
Yes, they do, as a way to try to overturn Roe'.
Have you ever heard of heartbeat bills and fetal personhood legislation? This legislation plays very well to religious conservatives who are driven by their emotions and not facts.
Georgia just passed a bill that would make any abortion after 6 weeks a felony. Alabama is considering a bill that would make any abortion a felony.
Do Congress critters regularly vote on settled law?
It's obvious that state legs do
Please list when the US Congress passed such laws.
Ohio did the same thing. The conservative hypocrites want to force women to have kids that aren't wanted, but once the kid is born they won't support it or help the women care for it, despite calling themselves pro-life. if men got pregnant abortion would be a right and they could have a free abortion with 2 weeks paid medical leave in a sports bar at halftime.
Will you one day soon learn the difference between proposed legislation and law?
Also this scumbag is guilty of witness intimidation. Scum supports scum.
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and moving goal posts
Why are you trying to ignore that they did support this legislation? Is it because it is intellectually convenient to admit what they attempted to do?
it isn't my problem that you have difficulty determining what is law and what isn't.
Don't be intellectually evasive or pedantic. Congress did try to pass a law that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
This is a list of federal legislation that deals with abortion. How do you plan to try to get your way out of this, or will you ignore this post?
Yawn. Just because you type one thing and then decide to try and change what you really meant doesn't mean that I have to play your game.
You said in response to this: Please list when the US Congress passed such laws.
This:
Now, correct me if I am wrong--are you saying that the links show passed legislation, or were you answering a different question?
Proposing them is enough. Attempting to pass them is enough. The entire process matters as it moves from idea to law. Republicans are the ones trying to limit women's freedom, the very foundation of their person. They try it through the states, the federal and the courts. Its about time you stop playing naive and start paying attention to what you are defending (or denying it when you don't know what else to say). Religions want to inject themselves, politicians want to, employers want to, for some reason stupid old men and some of their chattel want to have a say in our business and you want to pretend they don't.
Excellent. Very true.
Exactly! Just because it didn't get passed today who knows what will happen tomorrow?
The only reason to vote on "settled" law would be to repeal it. Time to do your SMMFH thing, Tex.
With Koch dark money behind the fanatic fascists, tomorrow is a scary thought.
He represents the 1st district in FL...A very red district but if he keeping babbling about moving to Alabama his constituents may not look favorably on him any longer.
When the Florida panhandle isn't conservative enough for you could you be considered extreme? I think you can.
If those people that investigated broke the law while doing so; you bet your ass- lock them the hell up!
They can start with the ass clowns that wrecked Carter Page's life obtaining FISA warrants to spy on him; and anyone even remotely associated with him. They can work their way down from there.
Unless, of course they care to come up with the earth shattering evidence to charge Carter Page as the master spy they make him out to be to get the FISA warrants. Since Page wasn't even questioned by Comey or Mueller; much the less charged- don't hold your breath.
I don't care about Trump, can't stand the man. Didn't vote for him or the wicked witch of the east Hillary. But the last thing anyone needs is a branch of the federal government using any US citizen as a tool to conduct a political hit job.
'They can start with the ass clowns that wrecked Carter Page's life obtaining FISA warrants to spy on him; and anyone even remotely associated with him. They can work their way down from there.
Unless, of course they care to come up with the earth shattering evidence to charge Carter Page as the master spy they make him out to be to get the FISA warrants. Since Page wasn't even questioned by Comey or Mueller; much the less charged- don't hold your breath.'
You keep peddling this claptrap.
You need to let this go dear. Take a deep breath, relax. Don't stroke out. Take a chill pill.
Page is a complete nutjob. Something seriously wrong with that guy. Even the Russian spies that tried to recruit him realized that.
Funny how people will dismiss the Russian spies trying to recruit him part.
So wrecking an innocent man is ok, so long as it is for a political vendetta? I don't care if which party is in power that does it.
As for claptrap- will you be saying the same thing if Trump turns the intelligence agencies and DOJ loose against any future Democratic opponent?
I am sure Nixon would love the left's current lack of caring about rule of law; or misuse of federal agencies.
Are you aware of this?
Carter Page shouldn't have been talking to Russian agents on the phone. At best Page is an idiot.
The FBI and CIA both new about his contact with the Russians and "agents" long before he joined the Trump campaign. In fact they admit they had used Carter Page as a spy for them before.
You are right, he is an idiot. He trusted the FBI and CIA by working for them to begin with. But keep making excuses for the POS that did this to him.
Carter Page is batshit and your link is hilarious.
Did you ever consider that he was a double agent?
Do you have that BS on a script so you can copy and paste it into threads?
How many times are you going to post that sob story about Page without any intention of supporting it with FACTS?
Not sure what difference it makes. The Russian/Trump investigation started long before Page got stupid.
Au contraire. Page has been stupid for decades and the Russians knew it...
That is the main problem right there. Their country? They don't even try to represent everyone anymore.
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The FISA Warrants were deemed necessary because of foreign intercepts, foreign INTEL and customary domestic intelligence reports. The 'dossier' has nothing to do with them. Stop repeating this 'Trumpian lie.'
Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information:
Do you have any proof that the Steele dossier was incorrect?
false
Lol, bbl denied it was used and you are left to deny that it was unverified, even Christopher Steele admitted that.
"Comey says the Intelligence Community (IC) was aware that media possessed unverified material they would imminently report – even though it was “salacious and unverified.”
They were warned about it by Bruce Ohr and they knew it was opposition research, yet they used it anyway, to fraudulently obtain a FISA warrant!
Time to pay for that
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what exactly has been fully "proven" untrue so far in that dossier ?
Why in the world should anyone believe what Nunes says McCabe said?
Nunes pretended for a year that he would release McCabe's transcript but NEVER did it.
The Democratic memo states that Nunes mischaracterized McCabe's testimony.
A blog by a conservative muckraker on an admitted conservative news source is hardly factual.
Yes, this is part of what he ACTUALLY wrote:
Comey is saying that the personally sensitive part of the dossier are 'salacious and unverified', NOT the whole dossier.
It was McCabe's own testimony. Are you going to deny even that???
Alright Epistte, deny it all you want.
I know you are boxed in where you gotta try and verify that thing, now that we all know it was impropery used to get a warrant.
Maybe you can tell us what's real in the Dossier?
What am I supposed to be denying? The results of the Robert Mueller investigation or the fact that Obama didn't spy on Donald Trump
Evidently, All things you don't like to hear
Robert Mueller's investigation didn't exonerate him as his letter to AG Barr makes very clear because he chastises Barr for not being truthful with the public statement.
If Mueller's investigation truly exonerated him, as he claims, then why doesn't want Congress to see the unredacted version? If he was a guilty man he would want anyone with the proper security clearance to see just how innocent that he was, but that isn't the situation and a person of critical thinking skills must ask why Trump is acting in this manner if he truly believes that he is innocent?
The US was spying on the Russians (as expected) and Trump's name came up in the information stream because he was willfully seeking the assistance of the Russians as a way to get an advantage over Hillary and tilt the election in his favor.
Nunes NEVER quoted McCabe Vic. McCabe refuted what was in the Nunes memo.
Why should I trust Nunes' interpretation? I want to see the transcript.
What 'thing' are you talking about Vic?
My comment was in reply to your claim about the content of the Comey statement. Perhaps you should address that rather than deflect.
Why don't you go do some research of your own and since there seems to be more than one of you, y'all can work together and make quick work of it.
19 comments since yesterday on this particular thread (#8) and Vic is the ONLY one taking his position.
Who do you imagine is working with him, and what do you base that fantasy on?
It sure can't be the comments written before your comment.
His use of a plural pronoun Tex.
Oh, FFS.
He was using it in reference to anyone on here reading this.
It ain't rocket science.
SMMFH
one problem.
the fisa warrants were illegally obtained. (all of them)
so actually... that's 4 problems
FFS Tex, YOU are the one that said:
So his comment didn't represent 'anyone on here reading this' other than himself, yet he felt the need, as so many do here, to infer that they're speaking for the group.
I can only presume that it's caused by insecurity.
Well 8, IF that were true, [it's not], there's actually a 5th problem.
Nunes ran the reauthorization of the FISA bill in the House last year and he FAILED to propose any substantive changes.
Maybe y'all should be questioning Nunes about THAT problem.
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no one is forcing your continued participation.
move on if you choose, or not--makes me no nevermind
SQUIRREL!
perfect. job well done.
now, tell me the story about how trump will be impeached?
or dig real deep and tell me the old one about how trump will never be president?
pick one, matters not, I like both those stories equally
Nor your continued comments with straw man fallacies.
I don't. You should.
It's sorta cute of you to think you can toss that out and think we'd accept your word for it.
People really still talk like that in TX, Tex?
We've had to spoon-fed this information to you before, haven't we, vic. The segments in bold below are items in the dossier that have been shown to be true.
Where's Ronin with his nonsense about Page?
No they weren't.
'It was McCabe's own testimony. Are you going to deny even that???'
I wish I could mark this as dishonest like you mark my comments about the turd 'president' as dishonest. Because this statement is a lie.
yes, they were.
there was nothing legal about any of that bs investigation, not one thing.
now people are going to pay for that
no deals - and no one just walks away
cheers
You're magic eight ball is cracked.
You're whack dude!