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BREAKING: MATT GAETZ SAYS HE WILL RESIGN FROM CONGRESS TO DEFEND TRUMP IN SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
Bannon War Room Pandemic ^ | February 3, 2021 | Matt Gaetz

Posted on 02/03/2021 7:35:17 AM PST by Travis McGee

Matt Gaetz was on with Bannon for the past half hour. The gist is they both think that "the best defense is a good offense" and that the centerpiece must be exposing the truth about the stolen election.

The GOPe Senate HATES this idea, and says Gaetz cannot do it while he is a sitting Congressman.

Matt Gaetz says that he will resign from Congress immediately in order to defend Trump in the Senate.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: braking; gaetz; impeachtrumptrial; trumpdefense
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To: StAnDeliver
As a sitting member of the House that is prosecuting the former Pres., I don't think so because Nancy and McCarthy would go bonkers and probably call to censure Gaetz, which is why he would resign his seat before serving as a member of Trump's legal defense team.
161 posted on 02/03/2021 9:32:07 AM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: apostoli

As in it will not become a trial with respect to actual fraud.
It is a nonsense show trial.


162 posted on 02/03/2021 9:32:59 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Travis McGee
He says he’s never lost a trial case, and he won’t start in the Senate.

How many trials was that? What was his role in them? He graduated law school in 2007 and became a Florida state congressman in 2010.

163 posted on 02/03/2021 9:33:52 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: crosdaddy
Trump was a known quantity while Gaetz is still an unknown to a certain extent. He came out against Trump on a couple of things, so he isn't fully MAGA.
164 posted on 02/03/2021 9:36:51 AM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: JewishRighter

Since Trump isn’t the sitting President, Roberts was not needed.

Leahy is president pro tempore of the Senate which is why he is presiding as the judge. Pro tempore have served as judges in the past during impeachment trials. Constitution allows the Senate to make the rules regarding the trial. Only stipulation is the judge if impeachment involves a sitting President.


165 posted on 02/03/2021 9:40:46 AM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: Travis McGee

If he resigns, how liberal will his replacement be? Best stay where he is.


166 posted on 02/03/2021 9:43:58 AM PST by bgill ("Salute the Marines")
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To: rollo tomasi
"In the trial if the Gaetz thing happens, Leahy will likely stop his argument the the basis of impertinence and being immaterial. Who would overrule him?"

Queeg. That is what so many people are missing on this thread.

This Trial is supposed to come off as pure kabuki, the House presents their case -- with 720p vidya screens lofl -- and the Senate falls short, way short of votes, what those votes are supposed to do: 'remove' a private citizen? Whatever. Not the point.

No, the point is, if Leahy so much as even accidentally drops that gavel to stop the defense, then Gaetz would go straight to SCOTUS for ruling "In Re:" and pull Queeg right into that which Big John desperately wants to stay out of.

You realize that the reason Queeg specifically declined this kabuki Trial, he is the tie-breaker for adoptions. He is the 'question reader'. In Trump's 1st Impeachment Trial, Roberts (and ONLY ROBERTS could have) made critical rulings ACTING CONSTITUTIONALLY as PRESIDING OFFICER, the SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Trump's counsel, Gaetz or whoever, should open with a ticklist of Constitutional questions and force Queeg fully into the kabuki spotlight front and center -- including 'how dare you shirk your Constitutional duties, Mr. Chief Justice'; and then pull out the dirty ballots.

167 posted on 02/03/2021 9:53:14 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Engedi

This kangaroo court is not a legitimate Impeachment trial because the Constitution requires the Chief Justice of SCOTUS sit as the Judge. IF the demon rats had ANY integrity then Leahy would be recused from voting on the final. But the rule of law, the power of the Constitution and the moral uprightness are no longer factors where the demon rat party is in power. The enemies of The Constitutional Republic were allowed to take power and rule over US. Abortion being their holy sacrament, the demon rats have aborted a once Great Republic.


168 posted on 02/03/2021 9:54:22 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

I agree with you completely on this.

I have seen a lot of this lately.


169 posted on 02/03/2021 9:56:36 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: George from New England

Same here. He can do more good at his seat than resigning.


170 posted on 02/03/2021 9:59:31 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Travis McGee

Go Matt Go! He would be perfect!


171 posted on 02/03/2021 9:59:40 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: for-q-clinton

Well, yeah, that would seem to be his plan.

He’s a fighter, and he’s young and ambitious. I’m sure that he’s actually a little astonished that the GOPe fell for his “don’t throw me in the briar patch” routine, but here we are.

Game On!


172 posted on 02/03/2021 10:02:39 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: a fool in paradise
How can someone who voted to impeach be the judge???

Please don't believe I am arguing that. What is true, according to very plain language of the Constitution is that no one who is not the Chief Justice of the USSC can be the judge. That alone renders any other hearing to be nothing more than a kangaroo court. One must believe the CJ by refusing to participate agrees.

IMO, what makes it almost impossible to use this "proceeding" for anything of great value, is this yesterday from an R senator:
“If they start trying to prove that Georgia and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were stolen, that’s when you’re going to lose everybody,” - Sen. Lindsey Graham.

With duplicitous friends like that...

173 posted on 02/03/2021 10:04:57 AM PST by frog in a pot (The voters do the heavy lifting...or not.)
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To: z3n

The trial will last about a day. He will be able to run afterwards.

I know nothing about his district—but I don’t think resigning a seat when there is a 7 vote difference might not be a great idea.


174 posted on 02/03/2021 10:05:15 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: bgill
If he resigns, how liberal will his replacement be? Best stay where he is.

If he resigns, the seat will remain vacant until a special election is called, which will probably take a few months to happen.

He can run again for his seat at that time.

-PJ

175 posted on 02/03/2021 10:05:39 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: faucetman

“””I can’t believe all the “naysayers”.”””


We faced a similar number of FReeper ‘naysayers’ when Representative Ron DeSantis said he was leaving the House and running for Florida Governor.

The naysayers were wrong then and they are wrong today.


176 posted on 02/03/2021 10:06:54 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: 9YearLurker

Governors can’t fill House vacancies, only Senate vacancies. If Gaetz resigns, there would be a special election to fill the vacancy.


177 posted on 02/03/2021 10:10:35 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Thanks, I saw that only after my facetious post.


178 posted on 02/03/2021 10:14:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Political Junkie Too

No guarantee he’ll win back his seat.


179 posted on 02/03/2021 10:18:25 AM PST by bgill ("Salute the Marines")
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To: StAnDeliver
SCOTUS has no jurisdiction over how Leahy operates or what he allows or disallows. The only matter the SCOTUS would have is that Trump is a private citizen on trial.

The defense for that is that Trump was impeached while President and the Constitution states Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 that if convicted, the punishment could also entail "disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States...". Defense will argue that the Constitution is silent on the matter and that the Senate should have a chance to complete the process thereby having the ability to disqualify Trump "to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States".

My guess is the majority of SCOTUS would side with the defense.
180 posted on 02/03/2021 10:21:54 AM PST by rollo tomasi
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