Rep. Matt Gaetz Complains About Being Called Conspiracy Theorist… While on InfoWars
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is really tired of everyone dismissing him as a conspiracy theorist, so he planted his flag in the sand today and took his grievances to… um, InfoWars.
Gaetz appeared on The Alex Jones Show, where the eponymous host praised him for being one “one of the strongest, most focused, eloquent, on target voices” fighting the political press when it comes to President Trump. From there, Gaetz and Jones launched into a conversation that touched everything from the alleged criminal behavior of the Clinton family, to that classified FISA memo which supposedly contains details about how the Trump Campaign was improperly investigated by the Obama-era Justice Department.
Gaetz is one of several congressional Republicans calling for the memo’s release, and today, he lamented that people who call him out for constantly talking about how the FBI’s highest levels are overwhelmed with corruption and “extreme bias” against Trump:
“We’re called conspiracy theorists because we see this cabal right in front of us. We’re able to aggregate these data points and show what was really going on. The reality is we’re just looking at the very messages that the people that were at the center of the Hillary Clinton investigation and the center of Robert Mueller’s investigation were saying to one another.”
So let’s get things straight. Gaetz is super-upset about being labelled as a conspiracy theorist…while in the middle of a show that flirts with conspiracy theories literally all the time. InfoWars has peddled nonsense ideas like how 9/11 was an inside job, the Sandy Hook Massacre was a false flag operation, and that anyone Alex Jones doesn’t like is the blood-guzzling illegitimate spawn of Satan.
I guess we’re just letting all of that slide today.
Also no one tell Gaetz about how Jones bragged that he possessed the FISA memo last week, but was thoroughly ridiculed after it turned out he was talking about a document that’s been publicly available for months.
Watch above, courtesy of Right Wing Watch.
UPDATE – 6:55 p.m. EST: Here’s how Gaetz characterized his decision to go on InfoWars.
From @MSNBC to @infowars, we've been chatting with folks all over the ideological spectrum today. pic.twitter.com/GeWy8BKj1K
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 29, 2018
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