November 2, 2024
On stage, Republicans sought to project an image of unity at the Republican National Convention. Offstage, it was a different story. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida took time to taunt former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a video posted to X on Tuesday. “What night are you speaking? Are...

On stage, Republicans sought to project an image of unity at the Republican National Convention.

Offstage, it was a different story.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida took time to taunt former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a video posted to X on Tuesday.

“What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz said.

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After being shunted away from McCarthy, Gaetz had to get another word in.

“Hey, if you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he said. “You would get booed off the stage.”

Another video shows McCarthy jabbing Gaetz.

“One person who raised the issue, he’s got an ethics complaint about sleeping with a 17-year-old,” McCarthy said as Gaetz can be heard in the background.

In the interview that was taking place, McCarthy was torching Gaetz, who led the House Republican insurrection that toppled McCarthy as speaker. Although Gaetz has said McCarthy sided with the Democratic agenda too often, the former speaker said Gaetz was acting from personal motives.

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“His name’s Matt Gaetz. He didn’t do it because he dislikes me, but he did it because he has an Ethics complaint because he paid to sleep with an underage girl. And he wanted me to stop the Ethics [committee],” McCarthy said, according to the U.K.’s Independent.

McCarthy was asked about what his next moves against Gaetz might be.

“I don’t think he’ll ever be able to run for governor like he wants to,” McCarthy said.

Whose side are you on?

Kevin McCarthy: 24% (10 Votes)

Matt Gaetz: 76% (31 Votes)

McCarthy and Gaetz have long made their mutual disdain public,

“Gaetz is the Hunter Biden of the Republican Party,” McCarthy said in May, according to Politico.

When he was gathering votes to oust McCarthy, Gaetz said flatly, “Look, the one thing everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin McCarthy,” according to CBS.


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