Conservative firebrand Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida put the Deep State on check this week, issuing a warning that, should the Republicans take back the House in 2022, the days of RINO inaction in the face of shameless establishment corruption will be through.
The Republican lawmaker has been a vocal critic of the federal government’s detainment and treatment of individuals charged with involvement in the Jan. 6 incursion on Capitol Hill.
He was joined in a news conference by his GOP colleagues, representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Paul Gozar of Arizona and Louie Gohmert of Texas, who joined him in decrying the “outrageous” treatment the Jan. 6 defendants have been subject to.
“The Jan. 6 defendants are being treated differently on a whole ’nother level,” Greene said, The New York Post reported. “They have been beaten by the guards. They are called white supremacists. They are denied religious services, haircuts, shaving, the ability to trim their fingernails.”
“They’re denied time with their attorneys,” she said. “They are denied the ability to even see their families and have their families visit there. They are denied bail and being held there without bail. Many of these people have never been charged for a crime before. Some of them are veterans. And the treatment is unbelievable.”
Greene recently compiled a report on the visit she and Gohmert paid to the D.C. jail where the defendants are being housed, which Gaetz pointed to as an example of the kind of oversight that Republicans should strive for — and have, up until now, failed at accomplishing.
“It has been 174 days since my colleagues and I sent a letter to FBI Director Wray asking basic questions about the FBI’s involvement in January 6th,” he said. “Americans should not be languishing in hideous, unconstitutional conditions waiting for basic answers like this, waiting for basic answers regarding evidence, waiting for access to counsel.”
.@RepMattGaetz: “We are going to take power after this next election. When we do, it’s not going to be the days of Paul Ryan, and Trey Gowdy, and no real oversight, and no real subpoenas. It’s going to be the days of Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Dr. Gosar, and myself.” pic.twitter.com/8ID1vMN8IZ
— The Hill (@thehill) December 7, 2021
Gaetz said that Greene’s report “must be a guidepost for ongoing Republican oversight effort in the Congress,” vowing, “we are going to take power after this next election,” i.e. the November 2022 midterms, which could flip the House red once again.
“And when we do, it’s not going to be the days of Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy and no real oversight, and no real subpoenas,” he declared. “It’s going to be the days of Jim Jordan, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Dr. Gozar and myself doing everything to get the answers to these questions.”
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