GOP Rep. Gonzales: Some of My Republican Colleagues Are ‘Real Scumbags’

BASH: “My panel joins me now. Nice to see you all. We have a real, live actual House Republican congressman here, Tony Gonzales of Texas.
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So, you voted ‘yes’ on the foreign aid package. Do you have confidence that, at this point, given that it is still possible that Marjorie Taylor Greene will push to vacate, to kick him out of the speaker’s chair, that he can survive?”
GONZALES: “He will survive. Look, the House is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is going to be just fine. I served 20 years in the military, it’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with them at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime. I — look, it didn’t surprise me that some of these folks voted against aid to Israel, but I was encouraged to see, by a nearly 10-1 mark, that Republicans supported our allies on the battlefield.”
BASH: “Wow. Okay. I should say that the federal government did look into Matt Gaetz and those allegations, and they decided not to prosecute.”