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The Messenger reports:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., denied that his political proxies paid conservative influencers to post negative things about Rep. Matt Gaetz online, but the Florida Republican doesn’t believe him.
“I saw a number of MAGA influencers online — DC Draino, Citizen Free Press — were posting these solicitations asking for folks to create a false negative sentiment around me online,” Gaetz said.
Gaetz noted that McCarthy’s general counsel “sort of hastily put together a cease and desist when they got caught.” The letter, which The Messenger obtained, was from Elliot S. Berke, managing partner at Berke Farrah LLC, who described himself as “outside counsel” for McCarthy.
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“I wish you could have seen the denial because it was so sheepish, it was functionally an admission,” Gaetz told The Messenger. “He sort of stared down at his shoes and mumbled that he didn’t think enough of me to even do that. Do you believe that? I don’t think your readers…
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) September 28, 2023
GOP TENSIONS …
MCCARTHY and GAETZ just got into a back and forth in the House GOP conference meeting.
GAETZ said McCarthy allies are paying influencers to post negative things about Gaetz online.
KM laughed it off and said: “Matt, I’m not worried about you.”
KM said, I…
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 28, 2023
MORE from the House GOP meeting…
When MCCARTHY said he was donating $5M to the NRCC/members, Gaetz said “how much of that is from FTX or Sam Bankman Fried.”
Rep. FRENCH HILL (R-Ark.), a McCarthy ally, said loudly “Oh, fuck off.”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 28, 2023