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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said that President Trump calls him on the phone periodically, and that he believes it's because he often comes to the president's defense on television.
"He cracks me up when he calls," Gaetz told BuzzFeed News.
"I think it’s because I defend him on television," the Florida Republican said, explaining why Trump calls him.
Monday saw a victory for the Donald Trump administration and its Congressional defenders when FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down.
As CNN pithily described it, “McCabe had become a central target of President Donald Trump’s ire toward the FBI over its involvement in the investigation into potential collusion between his campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.”
If there’s one member of Congress who embodies the Trump era — a combative cable-news fixture who seems to thrive in controversy and has been an unflinching critic of the FBI — you’d be hard pressed to find a more perfect character than first-term Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
FORT WALTON BEACH — Congressman Matt Gaetz is set to be honored by a group that describes itself as a coalition to end taxpayer spending on “wasteful experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys and other animals that are irrelevant, slow, expensive and hinder life-saving medical advancements.”
Northwest Florida congressman Matt Gaetz on Wednesday cast the lone vote in the U.S. House of Representatives against a bill aimed at combating human trafficking.
(CNSNews.com) -- Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who serves on the House Judiciary Committee -- which has oversight of the Justice Department and the FBI -- sent a letter this week to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein demanding that he provide answers that he promised to
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) believes Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is "riddled with bias," and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should bring the probe to a close.
"It's time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut up," Gaetz said on "Happening Now." "If there's evidence of collusion, let's see it. If there's not, let's move on as a country."