Gaetz Pans New Ethics Probe For ‘Psychoanalyzing My Tweets’ About Michael Cohen

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 27: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., arrives to observe Michael Cohen, former attorney for President Donald Trump, testifying during the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Russian interf... UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 27: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., arrives to observe Michael Cohen, former attorney for President Donald Trump, testifying during the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS
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The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is opening an investigative subcommittee to look into whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sought to improperly influence or even threaten former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen ahead of Cohen’s February congressional testimony.

The subcommittee was established because Gaetz declined to be interviewed by the committee, according to a committee press release.

Gaetz was blunt in response.

“If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it’s certainly their prerogative,” he said in a statement his press secretary sent to TPM. “I won’t be joining them in the endeavor.”

The investigation stems from a tweet Gaetz sent on the eve of Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee in February.

The tweet, since deleted, read: “Hey @MichaelCohen212 – 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 …”

Criticism of the post was bipartisan. Gaetz ultimately deleted it and apologized in a tweet, in his unique style.

The congressman also claimed to have apologized to Cohen personally. (Vanity Fair published the purported text).

The Florida Bar is also investigating the tweet. Gaetz has denied telling Trump that he was “happy to do it,” referring to the ominous tweet, after The Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reported someone had heard the congressman saying as much.

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  1. Keep laughing, future inmate. May want to invest in a cow…

  2. Maybe you want to file suit against THEM, you little snowflake, you. You take offense when ANYBODY comes after YOU for your silly, ignorant mouth but BY GOD AND BY TRUMP they should listen when you are ‘offended’.

  3. The question I have for Gaetz…

    Does adding malt to the shake make it more or less lethal?

  4. It must be weird to wake up one day and say to yourself “Going forward I’m going to be an odious, repugnant human being.”

  5. Innocent people always stonewall investigators and don’t talk to them unless forced to.

    It’s a well-known trait of innocent people.

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