Matt Gaetz Starts To Sweat As Florida Bar Continues Investigating Him

The Florida Bar Association has decided that Republican Representative Matt Gaetz can’t be let off the hook yet for his alleged witness tampering of Michael Cohen earlier this year, and they have decided to continue their investigation after determining that they need more information. This is bad news for Gaetz and certainly isn’t going to help with his political ambitions. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Representative Matt Gaetz is still not out of the woods with the investigation by the Florida bar. And in fact, the investigation, uh, just took another step forward. You see it at first when the Florida bar announced that they were going to be investigating Matt Gaetz for a potentially a witness tampering of Michael Cohen with a tweet before Cohen's testimony, it was just kind of superficial. They're like, well, we need to look at this and see that. We think it could be witness tampering. Do we think it's just a stupid tweet by a stupid guy? And they basically decided this week, like, you know what? This wasn't just a stupid tweet by a stupid guy. This was likely witness tampering. So we have to now move into phase two of this investigation. That's bad news for Matt Gaetz because this investigation easily could have ended yesterday if they didn't think there was any intent behind it. But that's what they're looking for now. They're looking for that intent for the motivation. Did he seek to tamper with Michael Cohen's testimony? And let's, let's go back to the tweet. Shall we hear? Is what Michael a, excuse me. Matt Gaetz tweeted right before Michael Cohen's testimony the night before, he said, do your wife and father in law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. She's about to learn a lot.

Now that tweet from Matt Gaetz obviously had nothing to do with Michael Cohen's testimony. It wasn't trying to, you know, call him out for something you thought he was going to say. All you were doing was essentially issuing this threat to him that you somehow knew he had all these girlfriends and that all this information was about to come out. It, it, it really read a lot like, uh, like blackmail. If you ask me. And if you ask most people who paid attention at the time, so of course Matt Gaetz doing the Matt Gaetz thing decides, Oh, I got to delete the tweet. I got a, you know, issue an apology. So here's the fricking apology, this idiot issued. He said, while it is important to create context around the testimony of liars like Michael Cohen, it was not my intent to threaten as some believe I did. I'm deleting the tweet and I should have chosen words that better showed my intent. I'm sorry.

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