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Title: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: mystery-ak on October 14, 2019, 05:10:14 pm
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing

By Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., an ardent supporter of President Trump, got the boot on Monday when he tried to sit in on the testimony of a former top National Security Council expert on Russia who was appearing on Capitol Hill as part of the House impeachment inquiry into the president.

Gaetz, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, attempted to attend the testimony of Fiona Hill, a former deputy assistant to the president, but was told that because he was not a member of the House Intelligence Committee that he had to leave. The House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees are conducting the impeachment inquiry into Trump.

A frustrated Gaetz aired his disappointment to reporters after being told he was not allowed to sit in on the hearing, venting his anger over what he says are “selective leaks” by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and questioning why he was not allowed to be present during Hill’s testimony. Gaetz added that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was involved in the impeachment inquiry.

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Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 08:21:44 pm
Because you're not on the Committee? Just thinking out loud here.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: PeteS in CA on October 14, 2019, 08:46:50 pm
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 08:21:44 pm
Because you're not on the Committee? Just thinking out loud here.  :shrug:

Yes, he was kicked out for not being on the committee that was meeting. But it tells you something about the committee and the meeting's true purpose that the Dems would object to an outside, non-Dem, observer.
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: aligncare on October 14, 2019, 08:51:53 pm
Quote from: PeteS in CA on October 14, 2019, 08:46:50 pm
Yes, he was kicked out for not being on the committee that was meeting. But it tells you something about the committee and the meeting's true purpose that the Dems would object to an outside, non-Dem, observer.

Democrats just love the democratic process...as it was practiced in the former Soviet Union.
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Hoodat on October 14, 2019, 09:05:34 pm
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 08:21:44 pm
Because you're not on the Committee? Just thinking out loud here.  :shrug:

Nadler isn't on the committee either, yet his access is not being denied.
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on October 14, 2019, 09:58:19 pm
Quote from: Hoodat on October 14, 2019, 09:05:34 pm
Nadler isn't on the committee either, yet his access is not being denied.
@Hoodat
Gaetz added that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was involved in the impeachment inquiry.

Gaetz did not say Nadler had access.  He said "was involved in the impeachment inquiry."  And Nadler was involved when the Judiciary Committee called for Lewendoski to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee.  The same committee Gaetz is on, and was allowed to participate in.  Gaetz is lying by omission. 

If Nadler had been allowed to sit in on Schiff's committee, Gaetz would have said Nadler was "sitting in on the inquiry."  Gaetz thinks you are all too stupid to notice what he really said.
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 10:28:49 pm
Quote from: Once-Ler on October 14, 2019, 09:58:19 pm
@Hoodat
Gaetz added that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was involved in the impeachment inquiry.

Gaetz did not say Nadler had access.  He said "was involved in the impeachment inquiry."  And Nadler was involved when the Judiciary Committee called for Lewendoski to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee.  The same committee Gaetz is on, and was allowed to participate in.  Gaetz is lying by omission. 

If Nadler had been allowed to sit in on Schiff's committee, Gaetz would have said Nadler was "sitting in on the inquiry."  Gaetz thinks you are all too stupid to notice what he really said.

I saw the presser live.  My estimation of Mr. Gaetz went down. 
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Hoodat on October 14, 2019, 10:42:25 pm
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 10:28:49 pm
I saw the presser live.  My estimation of Mr. Gaetz went down.

I defer to your judgment.  Don't know squat about Gaetz.  Sounds like he was acting like a Democrat.
Title: Re: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz kicked out of impeachment inquiry hearing
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 14, 2019, 11:35:44 pm
Quote from: Hoodat on October 14, 2019, 10:42:25 pm
I defer to your judgment.  Don't know squat about Gaetz.  Sounds like he was acting like a Democrat.

He was showboating and it was obvious.  I hate showboats.