‘You Would Get Booed Off The Stage’: Matt Gaetz Taunts Kevin McCarthy While He’s In Middle Of CNN Interview
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida taunted Kevin McCarthy when he was in the middle of a CNN interview on the floor of the Republican convention Tuesday. Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate the chair Oct. 2, 2023…
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida taunted Kevin McCarthy when he was in the middle of a CNN interview on the floor of the Republican convention Tuesday.
Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate the chair Oct. 2, 2023, which eventually resulted in McCarthy’s ouster as speaker when Gaetz and seven other Republicans joined 208 Democrats in a 216-210 vote Oct. 3, 2023, to pass the resolution. Video posted on X and aired on CNN show Gaetz interrupting McCarthy’s interview with CNN host Kaitlan Collins, a former Daily Caller reporter.
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“What night are you speaking?” Gaetz asked McCarthy in the video posted by NewsNation Washington Correspondent Joe Khalil. “Are you speaking tonight? If you took that stage, you would get booed off it. You would get booed off the stage.”
McCarthy initially appeared to ignore Gaetz, but then shot back during the interview with Collins.
“He‘s got an ethics complaint about paying, sleeping with a 17-year-old,” McCarthy said.
The House Ethics Committee announced a probe into Gaetz in April 2021.
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