Gaetz Defends Holocaust Denier By Citing Alan Dershowitz

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 10: House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) before a hearing about the Mueller Reporter in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill June 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. The ... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 10: House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) before a hearing about the Mueller Reporter in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill June 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from former Chief White House Counsel John Dean, who went to prison for his role in the Watergate burglaries and subsequent cover-up and became a key witness for the investigation and ultimate resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Monday night defended inviting Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson to last year’s State of the Union by citing an apparent message from Alan Dershowitz offering a glowing character witness of Johnson.

During a Twitter argument, former Hillary Clinton advisor Adam Parkhomento told Gaetz, “If you want to lecture me, you shouldn’t take a Holocaust denier as your guest to the state of the union. So fuck off, kiss ass.”

How did Gaetz respond? With a screenshot attesting to Johnson’s fine character that appears to be written by none other than Dershowitz, a former lawyer for accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and who is himself being sued by a woman who alleges Dershowitz sexually assaulted her when she was underage. The lawyer also recently doubled down on his Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that the age of consent ought to be lowered.

According to Dershowitz, Johnson is “certainly not an antiSemite [sic] or Holocaust denier,” merely a “provocateur who sometimes does foolish things to make a point.”

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  1. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    carrion birds of a feather…

  2. “Why, there are good people on both sides of that mass grave!” - Matt “Dingleberry” Gaetz

  3. Accused anti-semite “has a Jewish friend.” Story at 11.

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