Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) got his head handed to him during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee by a witness testifying on behalf of committee Democrats as Republicans continued to pursue their bogus, fact-free impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
The witness was Lev Parnas, a close associate of Rudy Guiliani, who allegedly ordered him to find damaging information about Biden and his son, Hunter. Parnas spent four months in prison for crimes related to that activity.
Attempting to counter claims that Russia instigated the search for corruption allegations against Biden, Gaetz told Parnas, “So it sounds like everyone here today, the only one working for a Russian oligarch was you.”
His voice dripping with sarcasm, Gaetz added, “You were really worried about our democracy, and you were here to warn us, but you were working for a Russian oligarch, wanted to get marijuana licenses, but then you didn’t even do it.”
“No,” Parnas responded. “That’s a lie, Congressman Gaetz.”
“But instead of spending 50 years in prison, you got four months,” Gaetz told the witness. “The DOJ didn’t listen to the truth because if they would listen to the truth, you guys would have been all in jail.”
“You don’t want to hear the truth,” Parnas told the Florida Republican. “You can’t handle the truth, Matt Gaetz!”
“Look, the truth for you is taking money from Russians to buy marijuana businesses and then going to jail and then coming here to lie about Trump,” Gaetz insisted.
Republicans don’t have a shred of evidence that President Biden committed any crimes or impeachable offenses. Their inquiry is classic McCarthyism and it’s backfiring on them. You’d think they have enough sense to stop digging the hole they’re in any deeper. But they don’t, and they’re far too busy taking orders from failed former president Donald Trump to do what’s best for the country.
