Gaetz Interrupts McCarthy’s CNN Interview in Heated RNC Floor Feud

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Gaetz Interrupts McCarthy’s CNN Interview in Heated RNC Floor Feud

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The animosity between former House Speaker

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and Rep.

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(R-FL) was on display again Tuesday, when the latter interrupted an interview between McCarthy and

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on the floor of the *********** National Convention to mock him about not having a speaking gig at the event.

The pair have been sparring for more than a year. Gaetz

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that he led the effort to remove McCarthy as speaker last fall after the then-California congressman revived a House Ethics Committee probe into **** trafficking allegations against him, The Daily ****** reported in January. For his part, McCarthy

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that Gaetz “belongs in jail,” and at a Georgetown University event in April,

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that he is no longer speaker because “one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” That congressional probe

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. Federal prosecutors decided not to charge Gaetz in February 2023, and Gaetz has maintained his innocence.

All that came to the forefront during a hostile exchange Tuesday in Milwaukee. As McCarthy was speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Gaetz burst into frame, badgering McCarthy with rhetorical questions about when he would be speaking at the convention.

“What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight, or?” Gaetz began, a jab at McCarthy not being on the

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, while Gaetz is.

McCarthy, not turning to look at Gaetz, responded: “He’s got an ethics complaint about paying—sleeping with a 17-year-old.”

Gaetz shot back: “Hey, if you took that stage, you would get booed off of it. You would get booed off the stage.”

EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Matt Gaetz interrupts Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s interview on the floor of the RNC. Gaetz had to be physically held back by security and said “You’d get boo’ed off the stage if you were to speak”

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