Republicans have fallen out of love with Matt Gaetz — he just hasn’t got the memo yet
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Because they don’t care what you do there as long as you say that Trump won the election.” But McCain argued that even Gaetz’s unwavering support of Trump’s false victory narrative wasn’t enough for Republicans to hold their noses any longer. You also may remember him from such antics as the time he told the father of a child murdered in a Florida high school mass shooting that the cause of death was “not the firearm, it’s the fact that we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently.” Gaetz then threw in a plug for Trump’s border wall with Mexico. “The main problem is it’s Biden and the Democrats versus two Republican parties,” Republican ad guru Fred Davis told Politico of the fracture on the right between those holding a candlelight vigil for conservatism and those clinging to a flaming bag of Trump’s poo. While Greenberg pleaded guilty to six counts before a judge on Monday, a plane flew outside over the courthouse dragging a banner that read “Tick Tock Matt Gaetz.”