Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida decided to use yesterday’s impeachment hearing to attack Hunter Biden’s past substance abuse problems… because that’s how Republicans like do things these days, shaming private citizens for personal matters in the most public of forums so it can be documented for all of history.
“I don’t want to make light of anybody’s substance abuse issues,” Gaetz snarled during yesterday’s hearing, “but it’s a little hard to believe that Burisma hired Hunter Biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with Hertz rental car over leaving cocaine and a crack pipe in the car.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz: "It's a little hard to believe that Burisma hired hunter Biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with Hertz Rental Car over leaving cocaine and a crack pipe in the car." pic.twitter.com/RhzrdJ1YWT
— The Hill (@thehill) December 12, 2019
But Gaetz, who, in 2016, said he still opposed same-sex marriage and believed marriage should be between one man and one woman, has his own dark history when it comes to substance abuse.
Before being elected to Congress, he was arrested for driving under the influence in 2008… going almost 50 MPH in a 35 zone… in a car registered to his father… who was a state senator at the time.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Vanity Fair reports:
Back in 2008, Gaetz was pulled over driving back from an Okalossa Island nightclub called Swamp after an officer clocked him going 48 in a 35 mile per hour zone. According to the officer, Gaetz, then 26, was driving a BMW SUV registered to his state senator father and fumbled for his license and registration, had bloodshot and watery eyes, and swayed and staggered while getting out of the car. Smelling alcohol, the officer asked Gaetz if he had been drinking, to which Gaetz said no, before admitting minutes later that he had, claiming it was only two beers. The officer reportedly twice conducted an eye test, which Gaetz failed. Gaetz refused field sobriety tests and a breath test and was arrested. Despite the fact that Florida law dictates his license should have been revoked for at least a year for refusing the breath test, Gaetz somehow got to keep his. Ultimately the charges were dismissed, and Gaetz later said that “I made bad decisions that resulted in an arrest, and that is sort of something that we all live with.”
Matt Gaetz, a known drunk and collector of DUI’S has the audacity to bring up Hunter Biden.
Pot calling kettle black.
Throwing rocks in a glass house.
Or just being the fucking drunk that he is. pic.twitter.com/YlApwyuXA2— The Crosswalk (@crosswalk_the) December 12, 2019
Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia quickly called Gaetz out for his hypocrisy yesterday, saying, “I would say the pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do. I don’t know — I don’t know what members, if any, have had problems with substance abuse, been busted for DUI, I don’t know. But if I did, I wouldn’t raise it against anyone on this committee. I don’t think it’s proper. And, you know, I think we have to get back down to what is most important here.”
Gaetz didn’t respond to Johnson, but he did tell CNN later, “I’m focused on the president…. I don’t think Americans are hanging on a traffic incident I had a decade ago.”
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rustyiam
Like Beto both are slimy hypocritical politicians!
Cam
Translation: The Trump troll needs to deflect from the fact that a Trump supporter in Congress is a criminal and hypocrite, so tries to make a vague comment about some Dem who isn’t in Congress, isn’t running for anything etc…
Sweetie, give it up.
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Cam: BRAVO!!!
Hdtex
Rusty…GFY you pathetic sack of feces
maleficent
crusty crusty crusty….. how DARE you make me agree with the two vapid piss-queens on this site, Cram and PWWO..
Get a life or go ahead and die.
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It has gotten to the point where these Repugnaticans have absolutely no shame there’s a clip where Mitch McConnell that turtle faced chinless arse actually laughs about how he blocked many of Obama’s judicial appointments and withheld allowing Merrick Garland vote is the Supreme Court….
The founding fathers look down and weep on how these vile Repugnatican puddles of puke have trampled the Constitution destroyed any hint of bipartisanship and cater, cowtow and bow to the far right…
rustyiam
Oh well better that then bowing to the lunatic anti American anti free speech communist socialist far left! 😉
Cam
@rustyiam Once again, vague generalities because the Trump troll needs to try to deflect from the criminality of a Republican Congressman.
maleficent
shut up fool….. go sit in the corner and suck your thumb
DennisBTR
Ok Queerty, if you are going to call someone “Anitgay”, especially in the title to the article, the article should have some facts or at least a mention as to why he/she is antigay. This article says nothing about his stance on gay rights.
However, his Wikipedia page states “As a Florida state representative in 2015, Gaetz sponsored an amendment with Democratic representative David Richardson to repeal Florida’s ban on adoptions by same-sex couples. He also persuaded his father, in the Florida State Senate, to support the repeal.”
Now granted, he may be antigay in other respects, and deplorable in general, but it is very sloppy journalism to have this title without any examples of his alleged antigay bias.
JessPH
Johnson was too polite and cordial. He could have looked at Gaetz’s eyes and pointed out his outright hypocrisy. I guess Democrats are just too decent to be politicians.