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WATCH: House Unravels After Matt Gaetz Selects Donald Trump for Speaker of the House

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During the seventh round of votes for speaker of the House on Thursday, Florida Republican representative Matt Gaetz casted his speaker vote for former president Donald Trump.

It is worth noting that the speaker of the House technically does not need to be an active member of Congress.

“Donald Trump!” Gaetz yelled when asked who he was casting his vote for on Thursday.

Gaetz was met with groans from the audience.

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Gaetz has been leading the charge against McCarthy as the House continues to search for the next speaker.

On Wednesday, Republican Representative Matt Gaetz sounded the alarm about Rep. Kevin McCarthy, warning that the representative was “losing it” as several Republicans in the House are refusing to allow him to become speaker.

Yesterday, the House voted three times on selecting a new speaker however every vote failed for McCarthy.

In a tweet, Gaetz claimed McCarthy had texted a colleague that he was ready to “fund an endless war.”

“McCarthy is losing it,” Gaetz tweeted. “He texted one of my colleagues who didn’t vote for him: “I am ready to fund an endless war” I’m assuming this is in *addition* to Ukraine.”

On the House Floor on Tuesday, Gaetz went absolutely nuclear when he nominated Rep. Jim Jordan for House Speaker, defying Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

“Sometimes we have to do jobs that we don’t really want to do and sometimes we have to do jobs that we are called to do,” Gaetz said. “So my colleagues, I rise to nominate the most talented, hardest, working member of the Republican conference, who just gave a speech with more vision that we have ever heard from the alternative.”

“I’m nominating Jim, Jordan. Jim Jordan is humble, perhaps today humble to a fault. Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who wants it so bad. Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it.”

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Gaetz was referring to this speech by Jordan below:

This wasn’t the only explosive remark made by Gaetz.

Rep. Gaetz revealed that things are so bad that establishment Republicans are threatening those who do not vote for McCarthy with removal from House committees.

“But we were threatened by my committee chairman to be on the Arms Services, Mr. Rodgers, that if we did not vote for Mr. McCarthy that we would be removed from committees,” Gaetz said while speaking to reporters.

“Our position is that if Kevin McCarthy is the speaker of the house and we don’t have an ability to ensure that there is umf behind the agenda and energy behind our oversight, then our committee assignments don’t mean that much anyway,” he slammed.

“I’m not here to participate in some puppet show where we pass a bunch of messaging bills, send them to the Senate, watch them die, fail to use leverage and don’t hold the Biden Administration accountable,” Gaetz said. “I don’t want to relive the Benghazi experience where it’s just theatre pretending to be oversight”



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