Matt Gaetz's Opponent Runs Ad Saying He Could Be Mar a Lago Informant

The Republican primary for Matt Gaetz is next week, and his Republican opponent is out with a new ad claiming that Gaetz could possibly be the Mar-a-Lago informant who tipped off the FBI. While there's no evidence to back this up, it actually could make sense considering that Gaetz is under investigation by the DOJ and could have worked out a deal that no one knows about yet. Farron Cousins discusses the new claims against Gaetz by his doomed opponent.

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So Matt gates has his primary next week, August 23rd, he's got a couple of Republican opponents, but right now he's gonna be cruising to an easy victory. And honestly, he's gonna be cruising to an easy victory in the November election as well. This is an area where Matt gates is, is running for Congress. Of course, that has not voted for a Democrat since the 1960 election president Kennedy was the last time this area voted for a Democrat. So gates hasn't on lockdown, even with all of the problems he has, but dangit those Republicans running against him for that nomination. They're not going down without a fight. And one of his opponents, mark Lombardo, whose father, by the way, in 2015, endorsed gates for Congress, um, has put out a new ad, making some pretty crazy accusations about Matt gates. Take a look.

When Donald Trump really endorses someone, he goes big. You've seen none of that for lion Matt gates. What does Trump know is gates? The informant gates hired Jeffrey Epstein's attorney. Another Epstein attorney approves the rate on Trump's house. Remember gates pressured Trump to give him a pardon, but Trump said, no. Matt gates puts himself first ahead of Trump. And ahead of you vote for a leader who will put America first vote for Marine, mark Lombardo.

I'm mark Lombardo. I approve this message.

Could Matt gates be the Mar Lago leaker? Could he be the one that tipped off the FBI in the DOJ saying, Hey, those documents you're looking for. They're in the basement. He's got a couple things in his safe. He may want to go check out now. Probably not. Right, right. I mean that, that's just a little too far fetched to think that Matt gates would wanna do something to cooperate with the DOJ. It's almost almost as if maybe he had something to cut a deal with them about right. That, that couldn't apply to Matt gates. Now could it, or could it look? I don't like getting into conspiracy theories. Do I think Matt gates is the Mar Lago informant? No. However, again, when you look at what's happening, you could truly convince a bunch of gullible idiots that he is because all you have to do.

And again, I'm not saying, I believe this. I'm saying how you could frame it to make it seem like a plausible conspiracy theory. Matt gates, obviously under investigation by the DOJ and the FBI, right? He doesn't want to go to jail. He doesn't want to get popped. He has nobody he can flip on though in his investigation because Joel Greenberg has already done all the flipping. Right? Okay. So bear with me here. What if Matt gates goes to the FBI and says, listen, look, I know you got a lot of stuff on me here. I know things look pretty bad and I can't give you anything to roll on other people in this investigation. But what if, what if I gave you info at another investigation you're working on? What if, what if I've been to Mar Lago? What if I was down in that basement?

What if I saw some boxes of documents? What if I told you exactly what was in those boxes? Hmm. Maybe, uh, maybe then we cut a deal, right? Honestly, if Lombardo had framed it that way in the ad, he might make some headway. Right? I, that's a pretty powerful and again, pretty plausible conspiracy theory. And it, it almost frightens me how quickly I was able to just make that up. Like I don't dabbling conspiracy theories, but you know, Hey, I guess I see why Alex Jones does it. Right. It's super easy to just make stuff up off the top of your head. The rest of, of course the, uh, claims in Lombardo's at are total garbage. Like, oh, look at all these times he went against Donald Trump. Yeah. He went against Donald Trump, but then he immediately ran right back to kisses behind. And it also shows us that even if we were to get rid of Matt gates, we end up with somebody like Lombardo, another Donald Trump sicken, who might even be worse than Matt gates. The cycle is going to continue itself, regardless of who is in office, just like Madison Calor losing his primary earlier this year. It doesn't mean yay. An extremist is gone.