Matt Gaetz SCREWS Trump with Courtroom THREAT

His Florida colleagues invited hurricane survivors, and the family of a hostage in Iran. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, however, invited a far more inflammatory guest to the State of the Union address: Chuck Johnson, an alt-right troll who's been banned from Twitter and accused of Holocaust denial and white nationalism.



"I had no idea who he was," Gaetz said Wednesday, disavowing some of the racist views attributed to Johnson, which the congressman said he learned of after they met earlier this week.


But even after Gaetz found out just how controversial Johnson was — the Capitol Police had flagged the name and called Gaetz to inquire about Johnson in a mysterious unrelated matter — the first-term congressman decided not to pull his ticket to President Trump's speech.



The two have similar libertarian views on cryptocurrencies and marijuana, Gaetz said. A provocative and increasingly ubiquitous cable news guest, Gaetz has become a leading House voice criticizing the federal investigation into President Trump.


Johnson said he loves what he hears from Gaetz.


“I like weird guys with a fuck-you attitude. And Matt Gaetz is one of those dudes," said Johnson, noting he and Gaetz are both young: Johnson is 29 and Gaetz is 35. His appearance as Gaetz's guest was first reported by The Daily Beast.


For once, Gaetz said, he wasn't trying to troll the left when he unwittingly invited the infamous right-wing troll. He said his pairing with Johnson was a coincidence. And if anything is ultimately to blame or credit for the situation, Gaetz said, it's Tallahassee.


Gaetz had planned to take his father to the State of the Union to celebrate his 70th birthday on Tuesday. But Don Gaetz, a former Florida Senate president when Matt Gaetz served in the Florida House, could not go because, while serving on the state's Constitutional Revision Commission, he contracted bronchitis in Tallahassee. [State legislators are in the notoriously moldy, pollen-ridden city for the legislative session.]

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