Ouch: Trumpworld Reportedly Rejects Gaetz’s Request For Meeting With Ex-POTUS

UNITED STATES - MAY 8: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is seen during a House Judiciary Committee markup in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, to vote on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the unredacted Mueller report to the committee. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is seen during a House Judiciary Committee markup on May 8, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is currently being investigated by the feds over allegations of sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old, seems to have found himself kicked out of his idolized leader’s orbit.

CNN reports that ex-President Donald Trump’s aides recently denied Gaetz’s request to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Additionally, the aides have reportedly warned Trump against sticking up for the Florida Republican, who publicly volunteered to resign from Congress to defend Trump in the impeachment trial in February.

Both Gaetz and Jason Miller, one of Trump’s top advisers, denied on Sunday evening that the GOP congressman had asked for a meeting.

Gaetz called CNN’s report “a total lie” via Twitter, claiming he had been “welcomed” at Trump’s Doral resort in Miami a few days ago.

“No such meeting was denied nor sought,” he wrote.

Miller similarly insisted that the report was “complete fake news.”

“No such scheduling or meeting request was ever made, and therefore, it could never have been declined,” the adviser tweeted.

Trump has said little in defense of his top bulldog amid the federal investigation, sparing only a two-sentence statement last week in which the former president claimed that Gaetz “never asked” for a pardon (the statement came out after the New York Times reported the congressman has asked for a last minute blanket pardon for unspecified crimes) and that “[i]t must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him.”

CNN also reports that Trump did not mention Gaetz during a portion of his speech to donors over the weekend in which he gave a shout-out to his acolytes, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

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  1. Thump, thump goes the bus. Of course they would all deny that Gaetz asked for a blanket pardon but let’s consider how often they tell the truth.

  2. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    Harbor Freight, the retailer of shitty, single-use tools, won’t take his calls either. Company spokesman Harry Balzac said, “A man’s gotta have standards.”

  3. Not so much as being a pedo but getting caught in unforgivable.

  4. "Matt? Matt who? Didn’t he bring coffee to the campaign back in 2016? Not sure I ever talked to him…

  5. Unsurprisingly, Donnie’s concerned about guilt by association.
    It’s dissonant, though, as he has enough guilt for his own actions to keep several DAs offices fully employed.
    And it’s not like there aren’t spools of tape about him and Mattie.

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