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4:23Now PlayingA recently-elected Republican Congresswoman from Florida is currently fighting a legal battle against a Roger Stone ally after he accused her of practicing witchcraft and putting spells on people. The lawmaker, Anna Paulina Luna, was also accused of having "relations" with Matt Gaetz, a claim that the Stone ally did apologize for - but he is refusing to apologize for the witchcraft statement, which could lead to a major lawsuit. Farron Cousins discusses this truly bizarre story.
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A Republican who won her very first election to be a member of the House of Representatives this past November. Her name is, uh, Anna Paulina Luna. She is one of the 20 people that keeps voting against Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker as well. But anyway, she's got bigger problems than just the chaos on Capitol Hill because apparently there's some chaos back at her home state of Florida. And that chaos comes from a man by the name of, uh, uh, Matt Tito, who is a good friend of Roger Stone. And couple months ago, Mr. Tito went on the Bubba the Love Sponge Radio show, and accused Ms. Luna, who is now a member of Congress, of Practicing witchcraft. He said she puts spells on people and he was, he was not speaking metaphorically, he was genuinely saying that this woman is a practicing witch, capable of putting spells on people.
He also said that she had, uh, uh, uh, sexual relations with Matt Gates, which both her and Gates have, you know, obviously denied, but it's the witchcraft thing really that kind of sets things off. So Ms. Luna has now hired a law firm that has sent Mr. Tito a letter. And this is what the letter says, I am sending you this letter because of the defamatory statements you made about Ms. Luna on the show. You said that Ms. Luna, a devout Christian practices witchcraft, you are hereby demanded to publicly and immediately retract each and every defamatory statement you made about Ms. Luna on the show. Because you do not have the ability to distribute your retraction widely on your social media, you are demanded to apologize and retract your statements on the Bubba the Love Sponge Radio Show, or by making a retraction and apology video that you send to me that Ms.
Luna will distribute via her social media. Now, Mr. Tito told the daily beast he's done nothing wrong. And here's where the story gets even weirder, right? Like Mr. Tito is a MAGA guy. He's a friend of Roger Stone, according to this report. And he says that he heard the witchcraft claim from a member of the Hispanics for Trump Group, a woman by the name of a Paloma Zuniga, miss Zuniga, um, told him that she put spells on people. That's the direct quote. She put spells on people. That is where I heard that from. So you've got a bunch of Maga Trumpists down here in Florida who for some reason are attacking their fellow Republican member of Congress saying that she's putting spells on people, which clearly isn't happening. Cuz if she had that
Ability, don't you think she would do worse than hire a lawyer to come get you? Right? I mean, if, if what you were saying was true and she could put spells on people, you don't go run into a law firm. She would put a spell on you, you'd be out there sitting on a lily pad and a pond right now. So I think the fact that that doesn't happen proves that you're lying to begin with. But folks, this is the level of insanity we are dealing with with these MAGA people like this dude, Mr. Tito, based on his statements. And of course, like I said, he tells the Daily Beast, he's not gonna apologize. He's hired his own lawyer. You know, he's taken this statement to his lawyer trying to figure out what to do. But he says he stands by it like this guy genuinely believes this, that his fellow Republican, who clearly is also a Trump supporter, is somehow putting spells on people that is today's Republican party, right? You may look at the chaos in DC this week and be like, wow, that's the Republicans for you. No, no, no. This level of crazy that's coming right out of my home state of Florida. This is the Republican party.
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