Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) fumbled his way toward taking the high road on Wednesday evening by calling on his follows to “leave the Cohen family alone,” despite tweeting about Michael Cohen, his wife and Cohen’s alleged “girlfriends” just hours earlier.
In the Wednesday evening tweet, Gaetz claimed he has “personally apologized” to Cohen for his previous tweet, which he deleted after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared to threaten to get the House Ethics Committee involved in his comments.
On Wednesday, the Florida Bar opened an investigation into whether his tweet could be considered witness tampering.
Gaetz initial tweet said: “Hey @MichaelCohen212,” read Gaetz’s now-deleted tweet. “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…”
I’ve personally apologized to @MichaelCohen212 4 referencing his private family in the public square. Regardless of disagreements, family members should be off-limits from attacks from representatives, senators & presidents, including myself. Let’s leave the Cohen family alone.
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 28, 2019
According to his lawyers he can hope this shows up as true repentance in his sentencing report?
Not enough asshole. How is it that shitheads like this get “backsies”? Whitaker too. If you straight up lie you don’t deserve a mulligan
Personally apologized after the damage was done. Doesn’t cut it.
Apologies are cheap and don’t undo the damage. As Emily Dickenson said, “Some say a word is dead when it is said. I say it just begins to live that day.”
It is as though Gaetz just discovered that his gang isn’t in the majority any more and he isn’t going to be protected by a supine Republican speaker. It is also as though he actually listened to Cohen’s warning that he used to suck up to Trump just like Gaetz and in the end nothing good came of it.