Matt Gaetz has hit again on the assault from one in every of Mike Pence’s high aides who steered the Florida congressman will “be in prison for child sex trafficking” by the point of the subsequent presidential election.
Gaetz was reacting to Marc Short’s feedback he made on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Monday night time after the congressman declared that Pence “will never be president” at a speech at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, calling the previous vice chairman a “nice guy. Not a leader.”
“I don’t know if Mike Pence will run for president in 2024, but I don’t think Matt Gaetz will have an impact on that. In fact, I’d be surprised if he was still voting, it’s more likely he’ll be in prison for child sex trafficking by 2024,” stated Pence’s former chief of employees. “And I’m actually surprised that Florida law enforcement still allows him to speak to teenage conferences like that.”
Short was making reference to the Justice Department investigating Gaetz over allegations he had intercourse with a teenage woman and paid for her to journey with him, together with over state traces. Gaetz has not been charged with any crime and denies all of the accusations towards him.
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Speaking on The Joe Pags Show on Tuesday, Gates dismissed the remarks from Short whereas saying his assault on Pence had the “best applause” from the gang.
“They can repeat debunked conspiracies and lies about me, but what Mike Pence and his political hacks cannot in any way dispute is that the people in that audience, the activists, the people that go out and win elections and the define the ideas of our party, they reject Mike Pence,” stated Gaetz.
“They don’t want him to be the leader of our movement. And I think Mike Pence is going to find that very frequently out on the campaign trail.”
Gaetz added that the rationale individuals like Short could make such statements towards him is that you would be able to “pretty much say anything you want about a public figure” within the United States.
Gaetz stated the “last person who talked like Mark Short” was Stephen Alford, a Florida businessman who pleaded responsible to making an attempt to extort cash from the congressman’s household in November 2021.
There has been rising hypothesis that Pence is gearing up for a presidential run in 2024, establishing a possible GOP main battle together with his one-time ally Donald Trump.
Short and Pence’s political group, the Advancing American Freedom Foundation, has been contacted for remark.