Matthew Gertz
@MattGertz
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Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman, didn't pay for the blue check.
Joined July 2009
Other places to find me/my work. Web: Largely dormant lifeboats accounts. Post: Mastodon: Substack:
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I refuse to believe there are people who talk and write about politics professionally who are actually unaware of why Zelensky wasn't wearing a suit.
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I learned about Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) and Turner Syndrome (XO) in biology class my freshman year of high school.
You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options. Hold the line.
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If I understand this correctly, the president awarded the medal of freedom to a talk radio host with a revoltingly long record of bigotry during the State of the Union — and the civility police are coming for Nancy Pelosi for tearing up paper? Is that right?.
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If you're Germany, Poland, Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan right now, you should probably assume the U.S. is an unreliable ally and try to get your own nuclear deterrent.
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personal update. my friend is not ratting me out to the feds.my venmo is pristine.i have not traveled to the bahamas this century.the walls are not closing in.
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LET’S GOOOOOOOO.
I couldn't care less about a House Ethics report on @MattGertz. He WILL be AG.
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Gaetz: Embattled amid a series of scandals. Gertz: Enjoying a day off, eating fried chicken, watching a giant ape punch a giant lizard and vice versa.
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I was told the countries paid the tariffs.
*TARGET CEO WARNS OF PRICE HIKES IN 'COMING DAYS' DUE TO TARIFFS.
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The first ten minutes of tonight's Tucker Carlson Tonight are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to pure, unfiltered fascism in American public life. Going out to the largest cable news audience ever.
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This, for me, will go poorly.
Breaking: A key witness in the sex trafficking case against Matt Gaetz has pleaded guilty. In exchange, he has promised to fully cooperate with prosecutors. His attorney told The Daily Beast that he has been cooperating against Gaetz.
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Shep Smith just took apart the Uranium One conspiracy theory in what amounts to a methodical annihilation of his own network's coverage of the story.
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A private. server?.
New by me: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer
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Kind of curious -- if there's no Speaker, on whose authority were the metal detectors removed? Who does the Capital Police currently report to?.
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Since his RNC speech nine days ago decrying leftist "cancel culture, speech codes, and crushing conformity," Trump has called for the firings of Fox's Jennifer Griffin, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and CNN's Chris Cuomo, and urged his supporters to harass the owner of The Atlantic.
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Republicans made a bet that they could stick a moronic incompetent in the Oval Office and get their preferred policy outcomes without cost. They lost, and now the bill is coming due.
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1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover. Allow me to explain.
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why did something happen oh sweet god it’s the holidays why.
@MattGertz good luck this morning.
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Matt Gaetz pick is so crazy people have forgotten the Tulsi Gabbard pick which was so crazy people had forgotten about the Pete Hegseth pick. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
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I'm fully vaccinated.
@Sentonal @NPool26 @waffles_right @megynkelly Nearly half the Republicans in congress won't state their vaccine status. People like,@MattGertz and @mtgreenee won't state it publicly.
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I met Pope Francis in the Vatican yesterday, briefly. I said, “Holy Father, I wrote a lot of good tweets.” He took my name tag in his hands, looked at it, and said, “the Florida congressman who likes young girls?” C’est la vie….
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Elon Musk interacting with sycophantic right-wing influencers this weekend, a thread.
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Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over!. All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure.
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"Outs"? Are government employees supposed to operate under secret identities?.
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I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either" in the minds of normal people. An incredibly crucial, high-stakes test for the press.
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President urges officers to commit acts of brutality, officers laugh and cheer wildly. Beginning to think problem isn't a few bad apples.
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Fox News isn't just letting Tucker Carlson do his regular show, they're airing it without commercials. They want to push his propaganda so much that they are leaving money on the table to do it.
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i did not take botox. please stop asking me whether i took botox.
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A SCOTUS confirmation battle during a midterm fight during a pandemic during a possible European war during a potential government shutdown during key domestic legislative wrangling LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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I really don't understand how someone could watch that and think he's fit to be president.
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Hey remember when Donald Trump tried to condition military aid to Ukraine on Ukraine's president providing dirt on Trump's political rival and then the Republican Party and its associated propaganda apparatus were virtually united in saying that was fine?.
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I am begging these people to read one (1) book.
Candace Owens: “Ukraine wasn't a thing until 1989. Ukraine was created by the Russians”.
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Stakes coming in focus over the last 24 hours:.1) RFK Jr. says Trump “promised me” control of the HHS and Ag. 2) Trump confirms he's giving Elon Musk permission to cut up to $2 trillion in spending. 3) Mike Johnson says they'll kill Obamacare.
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The secret DNC guest is the late, great, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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Sooooo did the White House just lie initially about Trump being asymptomatic?.
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how dare you, none of my friends would ever turn on me with the feds.
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Imagine how brain-broken you need to be to think that it would be bad news for Biden for the pandemic to end.
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We’ve gone from “I didn’t see the president’s unhinged tweets” to “it is suspicious that the president isn’t doing unhinged tweets.”
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This is unbelievably dangerous, just an insane level of stakes-raising.
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Dawning realization that nine months into the pandemic. senior WH officials think that if you test negative it means that you definitely have not caught the virus and can do whatever you want and don't need to quarantine if you've been in contact with someone with COVID.
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**wakes up, checks mentions** .I see that I’m going to be tweeting “wrong guy” a lot today.
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Damn it Matt, I have a family!.
I know it’s Friday. I know it’s gorgeous out. But, yes, we have an explosive Matt Gaetz story coming.
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How populist "entrepreneur" Vivek Ramaswamy got rich:.1. Found biotech firm with hedge fund/venture capital $.2. Buy patent for Alzheimer's drug that had failed 4 trials, raise more $ to take to market.3. Take company public, cash out.4. Drug fails 5th trial, investors wiped out.
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the congressman is getting all my happy birthdays today smdh.
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Kind of assume at this point that everything Elon Musk says is geared toward finding a way to exit the Twitter deal while saving face given that it is now expensive for him and he has no plausible revenue ideas.
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[stares into the camera].
Ruin a Twitter personality by changing one letter.
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A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section.
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That Lincoln Project ad aired during Tucker Carlson Tonight last night, if you're wondering why Trump lost his mind over it.
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Telling my audience of seniors to step out into the orange cloud and take a deep breath to own the libs.
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(No one in my mentions can tell on which level of irony the other people in my mentions are operating and it’s kind of hilarious.).
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Jesse Watters loves marriage so much that he married the 15-years-younger producer on his show with whom he had an affair while married to the wife of his first two children.
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That Tucker video is bleak. It’s jarring how his schtick just does not work without the Fox bells-and-whistles. He was maybe the most powerful man in rw media; now he’s just another streamer with half-baked opinions peddling conspiracy theories. He’s Alex Jones in jacket and tie.
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The DNC is over, did Chicago end up burning? . I was promised Chicago would burn. Can anyone confirm?.
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The president wanting to quadruple the price you pay to ship packages because he thinks, probably incorrectly, that it will damage the business interest of the guy who owns a newspaper he doesn't like seems like it should be a bigger story.
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Let's have some fun. Here's a thread of Tucker Carlson interviewing 18 Republican politicians who were defeated in the midterms. I give you. TUCKER'S LOSERS.
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please stop tweeting that I hang out with madison cawthorn.
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Seems bad that the richest man on earth is unilaterally breaking the federal government’s contracts that spend funds duly allocated by Congress.
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I dunno, kinda seems like the Democrats should have a gubernatorial candidate in Texas in case there's a backlash to **waves arms around**.
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Left: Fox News claiming the pride flag the White House used promotes pedophilia. Right: Fox’s parent company promoting its inclusiveness in 2022 by wrapping its corporate logo in the very same flag in a corporate social responsibility report.
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**opens Twitter mentions for the first time in three months**. oh god.
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Shep Smith just totally shattered the Nunes memo narrative his colleagues Fox News have been pushing.
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Churchill said this right before getting his ass kicked in the 1945 elections. Three years later, the Labour government launched the NHS. 70+ years ago and still no Gestapo.
The Democrats’ “Green New Deal” brings to mind an insight from Churchill: Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo.
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Intuitively = "We made it up".
Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number.". Sounds legit.
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oh dear god i was writing and now my mentions are fucked.
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The blue bars are articles mentioning Hillary Clinton's email server in the week after the Oct. 2016 Comey letter. The red bars are articles mentioning Trump's Jan. 6 indictment the week after Jack Smith's latest filing was unsealed earlier this month.
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The sole reference to the market plunge on last night's Jesse Watters Primetime came when the guy Watters sent the beach in Fort Lauderdale asked spring breakers the issue most important to them and this guy responded, "the stock market crashing."
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Scott Atlas was the purest example of the Trump-Fox feedback loop in action: An unqualified ideologue launched to power because the president liked his Fox hits. The result was that a lot of people died from the coronavirus for no reason.
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Alaskans passed a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting in 2020; the measure had at least some support from Trump voters. But Republicans lost a House seat in the first election it was used, so now they’re calling it a “scam to rig elections.”
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Reminder that virtually the entire Republican leadership and the leading lights of the right-wing media went to the mat in defense of Trump with no idea whatsoever what the FBI might be investigating or what evidence it's uncovered.
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The president is scheduling a press event in hopes that cable news networks take it live instead of airing Barack Obama's eulogy for John Lewis live because he's the biggest piece of shit on the face of the earth.
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It’s beautiful day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and absolutely nothing bad is going to happen.
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If you're doing "the libs and media are wrong, Trump didn't tell people to inject bleach to stop coronavirus he told scientists to look into the effect of injecting bleach to stop coronavirus" turd-polishing today, you should pause and consider your life choices.
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Tucker Carlson and his wife asked their friend Hunter Biden to write their son a recommendation for Georgetown University. When he agreed to do so, his wife emailed him, "Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
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