Matt Gaetz Makes A Complete Fool Of Himself While Questioning John Dean

Republican Representative Matt Gaetz has never been viewed as an intellectual heavyweight, merely just a Trump sycophant who had daddy get him out of at least one DUI. But nevertheless, Gaetz wants to be known as the “conservative AOC”, and he thought he had a line of questioning for Watergate witness John Dean that would earn him that title. Unfortunately for Gaetz, it turned out like most of his other endeavors, meaning it made Gaetz, not Dean, look like a complete idiot. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Yesterday, John Dean appeared in front of the House of Representatives to, uh, give some testimony in basically a little insight into obstruction of justice. And he said, you know what, Don McGahn, a former White House council's doing right now with ignoring subpoenas. It's pretty much obstruction of justice. Well, Matt Gates, the, uh, Republican representative who unfortunately represents my district here in Florida, didn't want to have any of that. Right. He was super mad that John Dean was, he was even there. Jim Jordan from Ohio was super pissed that John Dean got to come in and talk about obstruction of justice. But it was Matt Gates and his line of questioning to John Dean that really grabbed the headlines cause you see, before we watch the clip, let me explain something real quick. Matt Gates has described himself, or at least said that he wants to be the conservative AOC. And as we all know from watching Ocasio-Cortez, her lines of questioning are absolutely phenomenal. They blow people away. They become viral clips that go around social media. And Matt Gates wants to do that. And he thought for sure he had a home run against John Dean and ended up owning himself in the most spectacular way possible. Here it is.

Do you have personal knowledge regarding the truth or falsity of a single material fact and the Mueller report? I think if you recall the first thing I said, I'm not here as a fact witness. You're here to provide historical context. Exactly. And throughout history you accused presidents of acting like Richard Nixon and you make money off of it. Right? Not all presidents now, but a few more of those who do act like him. I pointed out, let me ask you this question. How do Democrats plan to pay for Medicare for all? I'm sorry. How do, well, I figured if we were going to ask you about stuff you don't know about, we'd start with the big stuff. So do you know how they plan to pay for Medicare for all, uh, who? The Democrats or which candidate or can you be more specific? Let's get specific to Nixon since that appears to be while you're here, do you blow? Actually Nixon did have a health care plan. Good, good. Well, do you believe if we, if we turned the lights off here and maybe lit some candles, got Outta weegee board, we could potentially raise the specter of Richard Nixon.

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