WATCH: Matt Gaetz Goes Nuclear on House Floor, Nominates Jim Jordan for Speaker

On Tuesday, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz went nuclear on the House floor 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.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: Rep. @MattGaetz takes the floor to nominate Rep. @Jim_Jordan for Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/Pxh8dPNzoB

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 3, 2023

Gaetz was referring to this speech by Jordan below:

Rep. Jim Jordan nominates Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House pic.twitter.com/gXalAAD0Uc

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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.

BREAKING: Matt Gaetz says Republican House members were threatened with removal from committees if they didn’t vote for Kevin McCarthy.

The swamp is getting scared.

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 3, 2023

“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”

WATCH:

BREAKING: @MattGaetz says members were threatened with removal from committees if they don’t vote for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker.

“I’m not here to participate in some puppet show.. I don’t want to relive the Benghazi experience where it’s just theatre pretending to be oversight” pic.twitter.com/arK1HSJMsi

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 3, 2023

Here is another clip:

Rep. @MattGaetz on opposing Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker: “If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.” pic.twitter.com/2hPDMF1RqB

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 3, 2023

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