AOC calls Matt Gaetz a ‘bad haircut, cheap suit’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Rep. Matt Gaetz a ‘bad haircut in a cheap suit’ after the Florida Republican suggested that Rep. Jamie Raskin’s son’s death by suicide made the congressman bitter and unfit to serve. 

‘What I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin – no one would ever want to lose a child – particularly to suicide. As a human being our hearts go out to him but I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in Congress,’ Gaetz said on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s podcast, MTG Live.

Gaetz said of Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and member of the House Jan. 6 committee: ‘He’s unable to do the sort of congressional experience outside of the dungeon of that personal trauma.’

Raskin’s son Tommy Raskin died by suicide at the age of 25 on New Year’s Eve 2021 after a bout with depression.   

‘[Raskin] is a greater statesman, Congressman, human being than most of us. History will remember him. Tommy was a remarkable person and testament of his parents’ love. Gaetz is a bad haircut in a cheap suit, a feat of mediocrity given that he’s here on papa’s money. Bye,’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. 

After Tommy’s death, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced she would be going vegetarian for lent to honor the outspoken vegan and animal rights activist. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Rep. Matt Gaetz a ‘bad haircut in a cheap suit’ after the Florida Republican suggested that Rep. Jamie Raskin’s son’s death by suicide made the congressman bitter and unfit to serve

Gaetz said of Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and member of the House Jan. 6 committee: ‘He’s unable to do the sort of congressional experience outside of the dungeon of that personal trauma’ 

Raskin’s son, Tommy, 25, was an outspoken vegan and animal rights activist who took his own life on New Year’s Eve following a battle with depression

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‘I think it makes him look at everything and he’s very like dark in severe ways,’ Gaetz sounded off. 

Gaetz said that he and Greene came to Congress to ‘uplift,’ while Raskin was there out of a sence of ‘grievance or hatred.’  

‘We come to the job and we’re here to uplift people. We love this country, we’re not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. We love America.’

‘It’s really like his service in the congress is almost become inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he’s had and I think it does cloud his judgment and we could see that,’ Gaetz continued. 

Gaetz said that he and Rep. Marjorie Greene came to Congress to ‘uplift,’ while Raskin was there out of a sence of ‘grievance or hatred’

‘The country shouldn’t have to go through all that with him,’ Gaetz concluded. 

Greene held back from going after Raskin for his son’s death. ‘It’s a horrible thing what he went through but that doesn’t change the fact of his political beliefs and I believe he’s a communist,’ she said.  

Raskin is a Democratic member of the Jan. 6 committee, which is holding its first public hearing Thursday evening at 8 p.m. Republicans have slammed the committee’s work as a political ‘sham.’ 

Gaetz himself is currently under investigation for obstruction of justice related to a sex trafficking investigation into him. 

Gaetz’s former pal Joel Greenberg, a Florida county tax commissioner, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges and is reportedly cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into Gaetz. 

Greenberg has told the DOJ about encounters he and Gaetz had with women who were given cash or gifts in exchange for sex, according to CNN. 

An ex-girlfriend of Gaetz testified earlier this year before the grand jury.