Before Matt Gaetz withdrew from his Attorney General nomination today, Morning Joe was furiously kibitzing over how he could be unraveled over allegations of having sex with a minor and attending drug-fueled parties.
If they couldn’t obtain the House Ethics Committee report, the Senate would conduct its own investigation, bringing live witnesses to testify as to Gaetz’s activities–something that, Joe Scarborough argued, would be worse for the nominee.
That’s when MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan blew the lid off it, by claiming Gaetz was an “addict” twice over. It’s not simply an issue of morality.
“Your morality leads you to become compromised. And this is about not wanting a sex addict, not wanting a drug addict, having control of the nation’s top secrets at the end of the day.”
Whoa! He’s a “sex addict” and a “drug addict”—two very heavy…
