Matt Gaetz Attacked By The MAGA Monster He Helped Create

Matt Gaetz faces a relatively easy primary tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that he isn't facing problems with his own base. One of his Republican opponents has released a scathing new ad against Gaetz, along with an editorial that calls out the Republican congressman for failing both his base and his donors. This is a little late in the game to have an impact, but it could certainly hurt Gaetz down the road. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Matt Gaetz has his primary tomorrow here in Northwest Florida, August 23rd, and it's pretty safe to say Matt Gaetz is most likely gonna cruise to a fairly easy victory, not just in the primary, but also in the general election race. But one of his Republican opponents, man by the name of Mark Lombardo, is not going down without a fight. So not only has Mike Lombardo penned a scathing editorial against Matt Gaetz in our local newspaper, the Pensacola News Journal, but Lombardo has also released a new attack ad against Matt Gaetz, attacking him folks for somehow not being loyal enough to Donald Trump. So take a look at this disturbing new ad. Again, this is Mark Lombardo running against Matt Gaetz in the Republican primary. Here's the ad.

When Donald Trump really endorses someone, he goes big. You've seen none of that for lying Matt Gaetz. What does Trump know? Is Gaetz the informant? Gaetz hired Jeffrey Epstein's attorney. Another Epstein attorney approved the raid on Trump's house. Remember, Gaetz pressured Trump to give him a pardon, but Trump said, no. Matt Gaetz 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.

So he's putting forth a conspiracy theory. Maybe Matt Gaetz is the leaker, right? We don't know. Matt Gaetz has gone against Trump a couple times, which by the way is not untrue. Matt Gaetz did go against Donald Trump a couple times, got a little punished for it. You know, Donald Trump wouldn't take his calls for a while. He wasn't allowed to get back on Air Force One. But they smoothed things over and now Matt Gaetz of course is right back in Donald Trump's pocket to the point where he actually has Kimberly Guilfoyle doing an event with him right here in this city, later this afternoon. So yeah, the Trump family is totally cool with Matt Gaetz. The funny thing of course is not the ad with the conspiracy theory, not just that they're attacking him for not being loyal enough, but the fact that even in MAGA world, which Matt Gaetz helped launch, apparently they can still fight one another.

Apparently if you ever go against Trump one time, even if it was several years ago and you've made amends for it, you're still not MAGA enough. So what is actually happening here, folks is that again, Matt Gaetz who helped create this MAGA movement is now getting devoured by the monster he created, right? Dr. Frankenstein is now having to square off with the monster that he made and he must submit to it. Again, I don't think that any of this is really going to hurt Matt Gaetz right now, right? I think Matt Gaetz is gonna cruise to an easy victory as he has in the last couple primaries he's faced. He's had some outspoken Republican challengers in the past and when he wins, he likes to tweet out these little snarky, you know, comments saying, oh, blah, blah.

Whatever it is, as if he's not running in a deep red district where it's impossible for him to lose. But again, Lombardo didn't just put out the ad. He also attacked Matt Gaetz in that editorial, accusing him of hiring one of Epstein's lawyers to fight off the, well, let's just say allegations against Gaetz, which of course is true. And Lombardo said that his own father had given Matt Gaetz money, you know, before Lombardo ran. Says that Matt Gaetz has betrayed not just his father, but all of his donors, all of these elderly folks in this area that gave him tons of money, by using it to hire a.