{"id":35797,"date":"2019-02-27T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35797"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:08:16","slug":"republicans-on-parade-2-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/republicans-on-parade-2-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 2\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RepublicansOnParade3.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred fiftieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is a Republican Representative and Trump Sycophant Matt Gaetz (R-FL). He is so honored for congressional witness intimidation on behalf of his Fuhrer.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0227Gaetz\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0227Gaetz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0227Gaetz.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\">A top ally of President Trump appeared to threaten a witness on the eve of a high-profile congressional hearing, suggesting Tuesday that he would expose the president\u2019s former lawyer Michael Cohen as a womanizer should he testify against Trump.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey @MichaelCohen212 \u2014 Do your wife &amp; father-in-law know about your girlfriends?\u201d Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a fierce defender of the president, wrote on Twitter Nazi delinked]. \u201cMaybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she\u2019ll remain faithful when you\u2019re in prison. She\u2019s about to learn a lot.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The comment elicited instant pushback from House Democrats, who accused Gaetz of trying to intimidate their star witness.  <\/p>\n<p>Cohen, Trump\u2019s former fixer and longtime associate, is set to testify publicly before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday. He will accuse the president of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/20-questions-that-michael-cohen-could-answer-for-lawmakers-when-he-testifies-on-capitol-hill-this-week\/2019\/02\/25\/11bd9db2-3926-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.1471cea44502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lies, racism and cheating<\/a>,\u201d according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to describe the expected testimony. And Cohen is expected to detail Trump\u2019s role in his hush-money payments to two women alleging sexual relationships with Trump during the 2016 election&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2018\/12\/06\/president-trump-uses-undocumented-immigrant-labor-is-anyone-surprised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s worse than the article appears, as CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9n8RUMgcrEQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Lemon explains<\/a>.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9n8RUMgcrEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gates deserves his parade, because his behavior was so Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Here is the one hundred fiftieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is a Republican Representative and Trump Sycophant Matt Gaetz (R-FL). He is so honored for congressional witness intimidation on behalf of his Fuhrer. A top ally of President Trump <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/republicans-on-parade-2-27-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}