Matt Gaetz

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Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz (born May 7, 1982 in Hollywood , Florida ) is an American politician . Since January 3, 2017, he has represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Between 2000 and 2003, Matt Gaetz studied history and political science at Florida State University . After completing a law degree at the College of William and Mary and being admitted to the bar in 2007, he began working in this profession at Keefe, Anchors, Gordon and Moyle .

Politically, he joined the Republican Party . As of 2010, he was an MP in the Florida House of Representatives . There he worked on a liberalization of adoption rights for homosexuals.

In the congressional elections of 2016 Gaetz was the first electoral district of Florida in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeds on January 3, 2017 Jeff Miller took, who did not stand.

At the end of 2017, he was the only member of the House of Representatives to vote against a law that would allow the state more means against human trafficking . He justified his rejection with his minarchist convictions. Less government would mean good government, his voters would not have voted for him to give the federal government more power. If anything, a variety of state agencies such as the United States Department of Education and the EPA should be abolished.

In October 2018, Gaetz brought George Soros into connection with the trek of asylum seekers from Guatemala. In February 2019, Gaetz made hints against Michael Cohen in a tweet shortly before his hearing, which were seen as an attempt to intimidate the witness.

Gaetz is a staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump and on October 23, 2019 led about 30 like-minded MPs who disrupted the hearing in the Ukraine affair in order to delegitimize the trial against Trump. However, in January 2020, he was one of three Republicans to vote for a Democratic law restricting the president's rights to wage war, which he believes was the reason he was not on Trump's advisory team on his impeachment proceedings .

On June 1, 2020, during the protests over the death of George Floyd , he wrote on Twitter: "Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?" ("Now that we have recognized the Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like the ones in the Middle East?"). This tweet was marked as glorifying violence by Twitter. Gaetz called this a badge of honor.

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was literally the only person to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill . In: Orlando Weekly , December 29, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Jerry Iannelli: InfoWars Appearing Nutball Matt Gaetz Is on the DeSantis "Transition Team". In: miaminewtimes.com. November 8, 2018, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein: Matt Gaetz Under Investigation by Florida State Bar Over Michael Cohen Threat In: The Daily Beast, February 27, 2019
  4. ^ "Republicans Grind Impeachment Inquiry to Halt as Evidence Mounts Against Trump" nytimes.com of October 24, 2019
  5. ^ "Why Did Republicans Storm the Capitol? They're Running Out of Options" nytimes.com of October 24, 2019
  6. ↑ Melanie Zanona, Marianne Levine: Matt Gaetz sees 'brush back' in being kept off Trump's impeachment team. In: Politico. Politico LLC, January 22, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Kate Conger: Twitter Places Warning on Congressman's Tweet for Glorifying Violence . In: The New York Times . June 1, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
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SURNAME Gaetz, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood , Florida