In a recording of a recent private online meeting with well-heeled conservative donors obtained by NBC News, MAGA Congressmen Matt Gaetz and Matt Rosendale told the attendees their party’s supposedly still ongoing efforts to impeach President Biden are a stupid waste of time.
“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden… They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment. And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw,” said Gaetz last week, before he put it somewhat more gently with addressing the House during debate on his ultimately successful motion to eject Kevin McCarthy from the speakership. “I just don’t get the sense that it’s for the sake of impeachment. I think it’s for the sake of having another bad thing to say about Joe Biden,” Gaetz continued.
Rosendale likened the impeachment to Hunter Biden’s prosecution, saying both were a “smokescreen” meant to hide or distract from more serious crimes committed by the wayward son and the rest of the Biden family. Separately the Messenger obtained a clip from the same Zoom meeting in which Rosendale told the donors he had “prayed” for a small GOP majority ahead of the 2022 midterms – rather than a red wave to give them a margin of dozens of seats in the House.