Gaetz Jokes About Coverage of Allegations at Rally: CNN Will Report This as ‘Wild Party Surrounded by Beautiful Women in the Villages’

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R- FL) and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- GA) teamed up for an “America First” rally on Friday night, and Gaetz made some comments indirectly referencing his ongoing scandal.

“We have a right to confront our accusers in this country. How about that?” Gaetz said at one point. “There can be no due process here if the only process due to conservative is to see leaks embroidered onto lies, then just endlessly repeated by the America last media.”

Gaetz is currently under fire over a DOJ investigation into, as the New York Times first reported in March, “whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him.” The scandal has only grown since then, but Gaetz has been publicly defiant. He has denied the allegations against him and has said his family was the target of a blackmail scheme.

When the first reports of the DOJ investigation broke, Greene publicly defended Gaetz.

Gaetz went on a tear against CNN at the rally, calling them “the worst” and saying, “Today is my birthday. And I already know how CNN’s gonna report it. ‘Matt Gaetz has wild party surrounded by beautiful women in The Villages.’ So just get ready for it.”

"Today is my birthday. And I already know how CNN is gonna report it. 'Matt Gaetz has wild party surrounded by beautiful woman in The Villages.'" — Matt Gaetz pic.twitter.com/woymqpqapD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2021

Gaetz started the speech by saying he’s a “cancelled man” and a “wanted man by the deep state.”