McCarthy Says Gaetz Committed WORSE Crimes Than George Santos

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is ready for his nemesis Matt Gaetz to face the same fate as George Santos, and McCarthy recently told a reporter that Gaetz may have committed crimes that put Santos to shame. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is ready for his nemesis, Matt Gaetz, to face the same fate as George Santos. And McCarthy recently told a reporter that Gaetz may have committed some crimes that put Santos to shame. Wow. There is nobody in the country that knows as much about the Gaetz story as you do. So I'm gonna hush. You take over this.

The House Ethics Committee, which is the group by the way, that did take down Santos when they finally released their reports showing all the horrible things he did, and then they expelled him a few days later. One of the most outspoken people about not expelling Santos was this guy. Matt Gaetz was heartbroken. And he said, how could we just get rid of people based on simple allegations and no convictions? And yeah, it sounds exactly like somebody in that position would say, because look, Matt Gaetz somehow someway did not get charged by the Department of Justice. They had multiple cooperating witnesses, they had the corroborating evidence, they had everything. Joel Greenberg, the guy who did go down for this, his lawyer even came out after this and said this, there's no way. After what we gave them, how can you not criminally charge him?

Yeah. Well, we see it all the time, of course, we talk about this all the time with corporations. CEOs who create manslaughter. I mean, they murder people with the products they put out knowing it, well, opioids, you 150 people died a day. Nobody went to prison. This is kind of the similar thing. Who's in power? What strings can you pull? But he was worried about McCarthy wasn't he? Gaetz was worried about McCarthy. But what's happened here now is he's got McCarthy really, really off. And McCarthy has some time on his hands right now.

He does.

He's not having to worry about that day to day stuff. McCarthy probably, my prediction is he will pick him apart little by little. But the question I have, why would he have done that? When you have a background like that, why do you put yourself in the limelight and now you're the target? It's almost like, who's the mayor of New York? What's the African American?

Adam.

Adam.

Is it Adam? Eric Adams.

Eric Adams. Okay. So Eric Adams, he's doing great. He's everybody's Democratic hero. Right. Until he starts saying, Biden, you're an idiot for what you're doing with immigration. You're killing New York City. Remember that? All of a sudden you can't pick up a daily paper where they're not looking at something new with Eric Adams, may be true, but it was all quiet up until that time he started criticizing the administration. This is the same kind of deal. If he knew he had all that in his closet, why do you come out like that?

Well, and that's the thing that really does strike me as odd, because Matt Gaetz knew he was facing the House Ethics Committee investigation, which according to McCarthy, and according to independent reports, they have expanded it. They're now looking at new things that Gaetz may have allegedly done and McCarthy says he's seen some of it, and it's worse than Santos is what he says.

On the Senate side, why the hell is Menendez still there? I mean.

That makes no sense.

How does a democrat that complains about Santos or Gaetz, how does a Democrat complain about that when you got Menendez still there? I don't, even Fetterman is saying, what the hell?

I do love that Fetterman is out there every day like, hey, can we get rid of this idiot here.

I mean, he's a criminal. I'm not even gonna say alleged. He is a criminal. There's enough information. I prosecuted long enough to know they've got everything they need on the guy.