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Matt Gaetz: Ethics Questions Around Home TV Studio All a Big Misunderstanding

His office chalked the whole thing up to a “clerical error,” but Trump’s man in Florida could still be facing an investigation.

By Caleb Ecarma July 22, 2020

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/matt-gaetz-spending-taxpayer-money-home-tv-studio

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Following heated debate about race, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz reveals Cuban-born son taken in by his family at age 12

Posted By Dave Plotkin on Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:20 PM

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Richmond, who is Black, was making remarks about the Justice in Policing Act saying, "to my colleagues, especially the ones who keep introducing amendments that are a tangent and a distraction to what we are talking about, you all are white males, you have never lived in my shoes and you do not know what it is like to be an African American male."

Gaetz asked Richmond if he was insinuating that Republican congressmen did not have any "non-white" children, to which Richmond quickly responded, "Matt, I am not about to get sidetracked about the color of our children. I reclaim my time!"

"Please don't come in this committee room and make a mockery of the pain that exists in my community," Richmond said, later acknowledging that people on "the other side had black grand children," but that the discussion was not about the color of their children's skin.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/06/18/following-heated-debate-about-race-us-rep-matt-gaetz-reveals-cuban-born-son-adopted-by-his-family-at-age-12

On only the evidence above only an asshole bent on aggression and creating animosity and/or wasting time would suggest the insinuation Gaetz did there.