Matt Gaetz

Yeah, I didn't think that me doing some multi-week, multi-month fight to try to grind down the last of Mitch McConnell was somehow going to help the administration in the end.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I oftentimes couldn't get a meeting with people like Senator Murkowski and Senator Collins.

They were not interested in even having a discussion with me.

So it would have been hard to execute a trade.

Well, and I think also there's something unsettling about my unpredictability.

People who read the script are easy to predict and manage.

Not at the top.

Trump's pretty strong.

Weakness and risk aversion.

And risk aversion is fundamentally anti-American.

We are a nation of risk takers at our best moments.

That's who we are.

But in government, it's often, you know, how do I avoid any attention or ire?

I do think that the riskiest thing we've seen is what Obama got everybody together to do on December 9th of 2016 when he ordered the Russia hoax.

I think that is really the original sin of a lot of this that has happened.

And I certainly would have brought a RICO charge against the people who were involved in that decision-making process and participating in the various –

predicate criminal acts, I wouldn't be surprised if that's precisely what Pam Bondi does.

When the Biden FBI raided Trump's house, they engaged in a predicate criminal act to try to get information back that was exculpatory as to Trump.