Marc Short told CNN that Gaetz wasn't motivated by public service. 'it’s more likely he came here for the teenage interns on Capitol Hill, to be honest.”
that he thinks Gaetz’s real reason for wanting to be in Congress was less about public service and more about access to underage aides on Capitol Hill.Short first noted that McCarthy was partially responsible for his own ouster since, as a condition of being named House speaker, he agreed to change a rule so thatto “vacate the office” of the speaker, which triggers a vote of the full House on the speaker’s fate.
Short blasted Gaetz later in the interview, saying that the Florida congressman isn’t the “fiscal conservative” he claims to be. Short didn’t elaborate on Gaetz’s alleged interest in interns, preferring to criticize his so-called fiscal conservatism.
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