Rep. Matt Gaetz says he"personally apologized" Wednesday for Twitter smearing Michael Cohen — but that didn't stop the Florida Republican from having congressional ethics probe requested for his social media salvo against President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer.
Gaetz wrote it the day before Cohen gave damning testimony at the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that painted Trump as a racist con man who had repeatedly broke the law. Because of the timing of the tweet, Gaetz was accused by many people of engaging in witness tampering. Cohen's admitted crimes include campaign finance violations connected to facilitating hush money payments to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, at Trump's personal direction to keep them quiet about alleged affairs they had with Trump. Those affairs, which Trump denies occurred, allegedly began shortly after the birth of his son Baron with first lady Melania Trump in 2006.
With him ,Jordan,Meadows and Nunes the Republicans have some real gems .
Then lurks around the edges at the hearing...
I have no idea why people apologize when they don't mean it.
Too late
no need to apologize to one of the sleaziest lying lawyers on the planet!!! Cohen will lie cheat steal embezzle, u name it this felon will tell any lie to save jail time!!! he is like ur typical DEM!!! dishonest as they come!!! hope the RAT ends up in the same cell with WhiteyB
I say too late teach him a lesson. He knew exactly what he was doing. dont let him off the hook ImpeachTrump
Too little too late - you’ll pay at the polls Mr Gaetz!
He needs to be accountable. Something daddy never taught him.
Apology not accepted.
He wasn't apologetic when he was on the phone saying he was happy to say and tweet threats to Trump. Disbar him!
It’s not his fault. He’s too stupid to realize you’re not supposed to send intimating tweets to a witness appearing before Congress. You have to wonder what other mistakes this guy has made before this.
Smear? Come on CNBC get your facts straight. He intimidated and tampered a Congressional witness at the direction of Trump. Get your story right and don’t dumb it down.
Who cares? Damage done!
Too little, too late...
No way this smart mouth punk & all around bone head should be in Congress .
Threats.. Now he's 'sorry.'
Gaetz needs to go. Too sleazy...
Only men like Far Right Radical racist mattgaetz can act the way he did, issue a Fake Apology, and now expect to get away with his actions. Privileged! When will racists like this pay the price for their actions. Conservatism is the cancer killing America! Trickle Down Poverty!
LockHimUp
Only fake billionaires like Criminal in Chief DonTheCon Putin Puppet Trump can get away with threatening witnesses....At least for now. BELIEVE ME
Shouldn’ Wiesel erg be put on suicide alert? I mean I am sure there are certain parties who would like it or would be happy if that happens
Sincere? Because he has no choice
I call BS.
Matt is exactly what male genitals look like in the snow. Matt who?
Lock Matt up
And Gaetz apologizes by still calling Cohen a liar, he is not even on main oversight House committee, he slanders him in original threat, and mentions nothing about he being liar, then apologizes by calling him a liar, absurd, Gaetz is a 36 yr old unmarried disgrace to Congress
I hope they dis-bar him and convict him on witness tampering and intimidating a witness. We’ll forgo the Obstruction of Justice.
Gaetz said way too much. He played the mobster by trying to intimidate a testifying witness. He didn't hide his contempt for the court.
TheDemCoalition Too Little Too Late
And then, he told donald he was happy to do that for him, meaning happy to threaten Cohen. Lock him up!
Because he is afraid of loosing license may end up working at fast food
Too late: it's time for him to look for a new line of work: perhaps cleaning up at his favorite gloryhole
People need to wake up, there is no Republican party, it's now known as the Trumpian party, full of peeps with no moral compass or decency and they have no love for America as we know it
Fake apology
he really can’t apologize for being a racist. Disbarrment is appropriate. FaetzShouldBeGone DisbarrHim
mattgaetz Won't be enough. Bar will come for you, then the DOJ.
kate_littleton Bend over and kiss it‼️
He got caught committing a crime sorry 😐 doesn’t cut it you still gotta do the time.
lol 😂 apology that was forced it’s not apology
Good! Suck it up be a man and apologize for whatever you done in the wrong everybody should take notes on this especially the House of Representatives LOL
The damage he meant to do seems already done.
He needs to go. Totally absurd behavior
RepMattGaetz should resign immediately as he has no judgement and should not be a legislator. He was breaking the law
This PARTISAN BULLSHIT the REPUBLICANS are spewing does NOTHING for Everyday Americans! As long as they can keep us DIVIDED, they don't have to really GOVERN and put AMERICANS FIRST!
Too late.
To little to late
Florida Man
Then he’s overheard saying to Trump that he was “glad to do it.”
Screw him! He can keep his apology we want his law license!
Too little too late traitor
The republican excuse, I'm sorry. Time to make them pay
And then brags about it on the fone with Trump?
Apologies after the fact are a right wing speciality.
Did anyone see this apology take place?
Too late
Too late bud, You talked the talk now you'll have to pay the price. When will you guys learn? TheRealDonaldTrump eats ass-kissers like you for breakfast and spits out the bones. Resist NGD ImpeachTrump UNITY
That’s what classy non Dumbacraps do.
What about his phone call with realDonaldTrump last night, where he said 'he was happy to do it' (sending threatening tweet, walking around hearing floor & sitting behind Medows, to further intimidate Cohen) was this at the direction of Trump?
joncoopertweets Was this before or after he spoke with a trump? 👇🏼👇🏼
He should be thrown out of office.
TheDemCoalition Too late— lock him up!
The toothpaste is not going back into the tube that easily.
POS
Well sure, the damage is done. The point was witness intimidation. Don't let an empty apology get Gaetz off. Gaetz attacked a family.
Criminals tend to apologize after the fact.
TheDemCoalition No amount of apologies from this vile and despicable man will ever be enough for MC and his family. The damage to them has been done and it makes me sick. 🤮Hopefully the Ethics Committee will dole out the proper punishment for this horrible man!! RepMattGaetz
funder Change your headline to “threat”, not “smear”.
That tweet is an example of all Matt can offer. He’s limited.
funder Actions have consequences.
How stupid of Gaetz. Was he maybe just tweeting those items against Cohen to rile up some of Trumps cult? Did he purposely say those things but didn’t want to get his hands dirty? Apologies don’t erase the harm words can cause. But Gaetz never exhibits class or intelligence!
He needs to be dismissed from Congress for witness intimidation.
He meant it when he tweeted it. He is now trying to cover his a**.
joncoopertweets They need to see this complaint through to the end. I'm tired of this.
The legal world won’t accept his apology. Nor should it. Bank robbers don’t go free for apologizing.
joncoopertweets Too little; too late.
joncoopertweets He certainly looks like a tremendous d*ck. And his behavior supports the look.
TheDemCoalition mattgaetz Whatever Matt is doing now to recover from his blatant bad behavior now is a joke. If Trump called him and by this, endorsed this behavior then anything Matt says is moot.
TheDemCoalition does he think we are accepting apologies for felonies now? no we aren't. investigate mattgaetz and prosecute if warranted.
funder The fact trump praised him is telling. His sycophant minions get rewarded for keeping in step.
funder He didn’t mean his apology so it’s meaningless like anything to do with the GOP
womp womp
funder And yet he still showed up in Congress and was trying to intimidate Cohen. Loser
Matt should have known better. This is not the Godfather.
funder To Little To Late!!! RepMattGaetz BlueTsunami2020 🇺🇸🗽💙🌀🌊🍃🇺🇸
joncoopertweets 'It's looks like my shitty little Hail Mary on behalf of President Trump didn't work and to be honest I'm getting significant blowback from it, so...quitsies?” It does work like that mattgaetz. You fucked up to score brownie points with realDonaldTrump. Own it, at least.
joncoopertweets RepMattGaetz needs to go. That public display of mob intimidation tactics is not how a peoples’ representative should ever act. Beyond despicable.
... But there were also reports that DUIgaetz spoke with Drumpf and expressed he was happy to try to intimidate the witness for the Traitor in Chief
Gaetz apologizes for self protection- knowing that the investigation will look favourably, NOT because it was the right & decent thing to do..he’s a Trump clone ,wannabe that made threatening statements against Michael Cohen and his family and should be censored, punished !
TheDemCoalition This is a man with minimal intellectual firepower. Sad that the voters of Florida's 1st District elected Richie Rich, who would be working at a Truck Stop if it weren't for his Daddy.
TheDemCoalition It wasn’t a smear. It was a threat.
Lock him up!
Is that why he was at the hearings yesterday?
Haha. A criminal court will not consider this as a defense. But they may consider it as an admission of guilt.
Wow Trump phoned Gaetz Last Night to thank him for threatening Cohen .Americans if you are a Liar & are Corrupt then yes vote for Trump. However if you are basically honest & not a pathological Liar vote Democrat. 2020
Hey mattgaetz, how's that humble pie tasting? Maybe you should remind everyone about your DUI arrest.
But the threat was out there overnight knowing Trump supporters tend to act on suggestions and targets. An apology doesn't remove that threat.
It wasn't a smear; it was a threat. In any other setting, it would be called out for what it was, witness intimidation.
Self own to own the libs.
mattgaetz needs to resign. His only constituent is realDonaldTrump .
lol he had no choice but to apologize.
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