Republican Representative Matt Gaetz said he would leave his home and resign from the House if Donald Trump asked him to.
As the former president’s loyalist expressed on Steve Bannon’s podcast, he is more than willing to give away his congressional seat if Trump wants him to.
According to Gaetz, who is representing Florida’s 1st congressional district, Trump would become “the top priority” of his life if the former president asked him to defend him during his impeachment trial.
“And the word we got back from House Ethics was that we could not, as sitting members of the House, go to defend him in the Senate,” the Republican said before admitting he would gladly step down from his position just to be able to defend his idol.
“I love my district. I love representing them. But I view this cancellation of the Trump presidency and the Trump movement as one of the major risks to my people, both in my district and all throughout this great country,” he added.
“Absolutely, if the president called me and wanted me to go defend him on the floor of the Senate, that would be the top priority of my life.
“I would leave my House seat, I would leave my home, I would do anything I had to do, to ensure that the greatest president in my lifetime, one of the greatest presidents our country has ever had – maybe the greatest president our country has ever had – got a full-throated defense that wasn’t crouched down, that wasn’t in fear of losing some moderate Republican senator, but that was worthy of the fight he gave to the great people of this country.point 632 |
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Gaetz’s show of support for the former president comes as Trump announced he won’t testify at his impeachment trial despite Democrats’ calls for his presence and testimony.
In a letter to Trump, Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin urged the 45th president to provide testimony under oath and threatened that refusal to do so could be used against him in his impeachment trial.
Responding to the letter, Trump’s lawyers confirmed that the president won’t testify as they called the request the “latest public relations stunt” and suggested that Democrats want to challenge the former president to defend himself at the trial due to a lack of factual evidence that he incited the insurrection.
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