![]() I have neither received nor solicited offers from any of them. “There is not a single conservative television station I haven’t had a passing conversation with about life after Congress. These conversations have been very general in nature and have never included me soliciting or receiving an offer of employment,” Gaetz said. “I’ve had many conversations with many people about life after Congress. On Wednesday, Gaetz told The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Justin Baragona that he has been talking to more than just Newsmax. Right before The New York Times’ big story about the DOJ investigation involving Gaetz, the buzz around Gaetz was the scoop by Axios’ Alayna Treene that Gaetz was thinking about stepping away from public office to take an on-air job at Newsmax. ![]() One more Gaetz story to mention, this one with a wild headline from The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett: “Gaetz investigation complicated by overture to his father about ex-FBI agent who went missing.” Gaetz’s next move And your criminal acts are within the scope of the Department of Justice investigation. ‘Subject’ means that you have potentially engaged in criminal acts. “You are the person we’re investigating and intending to indict. “‘Target’ means exactly what it sounds like,” Kirschner said. Kirschner said Gaetz trying to separate the two to make it sound like “subject” was not bad was like “grasping at straws.” Then, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Stephanie Ruhle Reports” on Wednesday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner discussed Gaetz’s semantics when Gaetz told Carlson he was the “subject” and not the “target” of a DOJ investigation. The Hill’s Thomas Moore also has a story: “Five of the oddest moments from Carlson-Gaetz interview.” The headline on the story by Vox’s Aaron Rupar called the interview “disastrous.”Īfter the interview, even Carlson said, “That was one of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted.” Carlson put on that dumbfounded face that has become something of a trademark and then acted like he didn’t have the first clue as to what Gaetz was talking about. Meanwhile, when you thought the whole thing couldn’t get any weirder, Gaetz went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and tried to drag Carlson into the mess about having dinners and past allegations against Carlson. That’s just the short version.įor a full explainer, check out Philip Bump’s piece in The Washington Post. The Republican Congressman from Florida, something of a Trump wannabe, is being investigated by the Justice Department for sexual activity with an underage girl. Still trying to wrap your head around this Matt Gaetz story? There’s a lot to unpack.
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