The Time magazine quote that’s causing people to throw away their Caitlin Clark jerseys



Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark has brought attention to the WNBA more than all other athletes combined in the history of the league. She’s a once-in-a-lifetime player who could have risen to Michael Jordan levels had she maintained what everybody assumed was neutrality or silent conservatism.

Unfortunately, Clark went full-blown woke in her Time magazine interview that named her Athlete of the Year.

Liz Wheeler reads a quote from the article that’s causing fans from every corner of the country to toss their Caitlin Clark jerseys in the donation pile.

“I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege. A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has kind of been built on them. The more we can appreciate that, highlight that, talk about that, and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to continue to try to change that. The more we can elevate black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing,” Liz reads.

The backlash for this statement has been swift, says Liz.

“It's just wokeness — essentially apologizing for being white, talking about having white privilege, talking about trying to pressure brands and companies to elevate black women,” she sighs, pointing out that the WNBA was actually “built on the back of the NBA, who for years subsidized it.”

“No one should care about skin color; you elevate someone based on the merit of their actions. What happened to content of character versus color of the skin?” she asks, noting that Clark’s statement was unnecessary because the times have clearly changed.

“Why would she say something like this when she didn't need to? It's not 2020 any more, where these professional athletes are under this enormous amount of pressure to be woke or face social ostracization.”

After talking to her sister, who just graduated from college, where she played NCAA basketball, Liz thinks she has pinned the answer that explains Clark’s virtue-signaling.

“Caitlin Clark didn't switch from being a conservative to a liberal,” as many people assume, she says. “Caitlin Clark has always been woke; she's just been quieter about it.”

As for her decision to go public with her wokeness now, Liz says it most likely has to do with keeping and acquiring sponsorships from companies that are “still suffering from wokeness.”

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Luigi Mangione: Leftist hero of the oppressed OR injured man with a death wish?



When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in cold blood, a faction of the radical left celebrated. Ex-Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz actually said that she felt “joy” when she got the news of Thompson’s murder.

Her reasoning was that Thomson deserved to die because as the CEO of a major insurance company, he “denied life-saving health care” to “tens of thousands of innocent Americans,” she told Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

The narrative among those who share in Lorenz’s revolting sentiments has been that Thompson’s killer acted in altruism.

But now that suspect Luigi Mangione has been caught, his alleged motivations “are coming to light,” says Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

Since his arrest, Mangione has been charged with “third-degree criminal possession of a firearm and one count of second-degree possession of a forged document … [and] two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.” He will also “face state charges in Pennsylvania.”

As authorities have dug into his background, they’ve found several pieces of information that seem to contradict the leftist narrative that he was some champion for the downtrodden who are barred from medical care due to corporate greed.

For example, “he's from a wealthy family in Maryland,” says Liz. He also “graduated as valedictorian of his high school” — a prestigious prep school that “cost $40,000 a year” — before attending the University of Pennsylvania.

“His family seems to be relatively stable; there's no obvious dysfunction in his family,” she adds, pointing out that “his cousin actually is a Maryland state representative.”

As far as Mangione’s political views, Liz says they’re “all over the place” and somewhat “conflicting.” According to Mangione’s former roommate, as well as his online footprint, he “identified as an anti-capitalist.”

However, Liz isn’t sure that Mangione’s juxtaposing, anti-capitalist views are necessarily what may have motivated the murder. They might be a factor, but the information that has emerged since his arrest suggest that there’s more to the story.

For example, a crippling injury likely played into his alleged decision to murder Thompson.

Mangione was “born with a back defect,” which was exacerbated by a surfing injury a few years ago. “The combination of those two things seemed to cause him debilitating back pain” that ultimately stopped him from enjoying the activities he liked, such as hiking, surfing, and exercising, Liz explains.

After surgery failed to remedy the pain, “his friends and family and former classmates say it really made him go off the deep end. There was some kind of mental breakdown that happened,” she adds

By the looks of his digital footprint, Mangione ceased contact with friends and family about six months ago.

His former roommate recently reported to the Daily Mail that Mangione’s pain was so severe, he “couldn't sustain relationships, meaning “he couldn't have sex.”

Liz has a strong inkling that Mangione was “suicidal” due this limiting injury.

Further, reports of drug use have since emerged. Liz suspects that he was likely prescribed painkillers following his back surgery, although nothing has been confirmed. He also reportedly took shrooms — or “ayahuasca,” a “really dangerous form of psychedelic drugs.”

On top of these physical factors, Mangione harbored ill will toward mega corporations, like UnitedHealthcare, for abusing Americans.

“A law enforcement official unauthorized to discuss the investigation publicly and who spoke with Associated Press on the condition of anonymity said that a three-page, handwritten document found in Mangione’s possession includes a line in which he claims to have acted alone,” says Liz, reading from a Blaze News report.

The “manifesto” also stated that the murder “had to be done” and that “these parasites simply had it coming.”

Further, “Luigi Mangione praised the Unabomber on Goodreads,” calling him “an extreme political revolutionary” and claiming that “violence is necessary.”

When you add all of these factors up — the anti-capitalist / pro-violence views, the back pain, the limitations of living with a crippling injury, and the drugs – “in a sense, it seems that he was seeking suicide by cop,” says Liz, “or he had this seeming death wish.”

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Pete Hegseth vs. the swamp — 3-part character assassination EXPLAINED



Like clockwork, every time Trump taps another person for his administration, the media releases a long list of allegations attached to that nominee in an attempt to discredit him from the position he's been nominated for. The smear campaign against Matt Gaetz was enough for him to withdraw his name. And now DOD nominee Pete Hegseth is having his name drug through the mud relentlessly.

“Pete Hegseth is a disruptor, and because he's a disruptor and threatens to disrupt the military industrial complex itself, Pete has come under horrendous attack,” says Liz Wheeler, noting that these attacks are not related to “the policies that he wants to implement at the Department of Defense,” nor are they related to “his political positions.”

These are “character assassinations and reputation smears,” says Liz.

The media has even gone as far as involving Hegseth’s own mother in its mission to besmirch his name. Recently, the New York Times published a hit piece featuring an email Pete received from his mother, Penelope, in which she condemned his promiscuity.

“This was years ago during a nasty divorce that Pete was going through, and his mother sent him an email telling him to stop sleeping around. She said, ‘You're being nasty to women, and I'm not proud of that kind of behavior in my son,”’ Liz recounts, adding that Hegseth’s mother has since had to do damage control in an effort to clear her son’s name.

How the news outlet got its hands on this correspondence is suspicious in and of itself.

But beyond that, the fact of the matter is, Pete Hegseth’s romantic past, however immoral it might be, does not impact his ability to do the job.

“I don't agree with Pete sleeping around. I think a lot of people probably don't,” says Liz. “Will that impact his ability to do his job at the Department of Defense? Absolutely not.”

Perhaps the media knows, however, that past promiscuity isn’t sufficient to sully his name because now it’s developed a new attack angle.

“The newest line of attack against Pete Hegseth is that he would come to work at Fox drunk,” says Liz, calling the allegation an “elementary character assassination,” especially considering it’s based on “10 anonymous sources,” who “refused to go on the record” with their accusations.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated that the allegations against Pete Hegseth are “very disturbing” and that Senate confirmation is “going to be difficult.”

“Do you think Lindsey Graham is actually disturbed by these allegations, or is Lindsey Graham disturbed by the fact that Pete Hegseth thinks that we should end the wars that Lindsey Graham profits off of?” asks Liz. “Lindsey Graham never met a war he didn’t like.”

However, there’s been a third attack on Pete Hegseth.

“There's been a report that President Trump is considering dropping Pete Hegseth and replacing him with Ron DeSantis,” says Liz.

However, when CEO and co-founder of the Federalist Sean Davis spoke with sources from the Trump transition team about these rumors, he was told that the entire story is “absolute nonsense.”

“There's a report (call it a rumor if you want) that these kinds of stories are being planted by RINO senators” — “neocons,” like Joni Ernst, who “wants to be the Secretary of Defense herself,” says Liz.

“I have a message today for the despicable, lying sycophants who are throwing these fake hatchets at Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel, too: You have no idea the sleeping giant that you have awakened when you weaponized government to target us. ... If you think that we're going to roll over, just let you torpedo Trump's nominees with unsubstantiated, anonymous fake news and slimy character assassinations, you're utterly delusional. We were born for this fight,” says Liz.

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Trump jokes that Canada should become the 51st state, but THIS recent Canadian ruling is exactly why we DON’T want that



According to a report from Fox News, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently visited Mar-a-Lago and had dinner with President-elect Donald Trump, he pleaded against Trump’s tariff plan as it would “kill the Canadian economy.”

Trump purportedly responded by saying that “if Canada can't survive without ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could become its governor,” said Fox News’ Peter Doocy.

While Liz Wheeler finds Trump’s joke both “hilarious” and “savage,” she can’t help but cringe at the thought of Canada — the most “disgustingly woke” place in North America — being part of the United States.

She reflects on a Canadian ruling from last month as part of which the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decided that the town of Emo would be fined a total of $15,000 for refusing to proclaim June Pride Month.

According to reports, Borderland Pride — “a 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride organization based in the Rainy River District of Ontario, Canada” — requested that the town of Emo declare June Pride Month and display a rainbow flag.

“But the township refused, resulting in a yearslong process in which the tribunal ruled against the township. The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker,” Liz reads.

Lawyer and Borderland Pride director Douglas Judson said, “We didn't pursue this because of the money. We pursued this because we were treated in a discriminatory fashion by a municipal government, and municipalities have obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code not to discriminate in the provision of a service.”

Liz can’t understand how forcing a town to hang a flag qualifies as a “service.”

On top of the fines the town and its mayor must pay, “the Tribunal also ordered McQuaker and the chief administrative officer at the municipality to complete a Human Rights 101 training course offered by the Ontario Human Rights Commission within 30 days.”

“One of the messages it sends to other townships and municipalities is that Pride needs to be in the smallest and most remote communities just as it is in larger cities,” Judson stated.

And that right there — the idea that LGBTQ+ ideology must be forced down everyone’s throats regardless of where they choose to live — is exactly why Liz can’t stomach the idea of the United States absorbing Canada.

“The left never wanted inclusion; they never wanted tolerance; they never wanted to just live their lives and be left alone. They want to force you to worship at their satanic altar,” says Liz. “Canada is one step ahead of even the worst wokeism here in the United States, but we are headed in that direction, so tariff the hell out of them, Mr. President. We don't want them part of the United States.”

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Trump’s surgeon general pick, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, raises eyebrows for egregious COVID policies



Donald Trump has tapped several excellent candidates for his administration. Overall, conservatives are excitedly anticipating RFK Jr. as the secretary of Health and Human Services, Pete Hegseth as the secretary of defense, Marco Rubio for secretary of state, and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, among other strong picks.

However, following Matt Gaetz’s decision to step away from his nomination as attorney general, it seems Trump’s picks have become more eyebrow-raising. Not everyone is thrilled about Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for AG following Gaetz’s withdrawal.

And many are skeptical about who Trump has tapped for surgeon general — especially Liz Wheeler.

“Dr. Janette Nesheiwat needs to be disqualified. It's not a good pick,” she says.

For starters, “Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was on the side of COVID tyranny again and again for years,” says Liz.

During the pandemic, Dr. Nesheiwat was both “a practicing doctor” and “a Fox News personality.” During her news segments, she pushed the COVID narrative, condoning vaccines, lockdowns, social distancing, and perhaps most troublingly, censorship.

“She praised Facebook — Mark Zuckerberg specifically — for censoring what she called anti-vax information. And then she called for other social networks [and] other social media platforms to likewise censor you and I as we were talking about things like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or vaccine efficacy or even the fatality rate of COVID-19 — who specifically was at risk, what put people at risk,” says Liz.

“Vaccines save lives, and I am so excited, and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this affects everyone. This affects our children; it affects adults, ... and I hope and pray that other social media platforms will follow suit and do the same thing,” she said on Fox Business Network.

“That in and of itself is a deal-breaker,” says Liz.

However, Nesheiwat also called the vaccine “a gift from a God” in an op-ed published in 2021.

“That's not science; that's not evidence; that's ideology,” condemns Liz.

She also urged people who were not sick but had been exposed to COVID to social distance for 10 days and championed masking children in schools.

While Nesheiwat has “softened her views” since the pandemic, she has not “recanted some of her very damaging positions,” says Liz.

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Lara Trump REVEALS the RNC’s crazy brilliant plan used to prevent election cheating



Donald Trump made history when he won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide. But he didn’t do it alone, and his son’s wife, Lara Trump, played a big part in making that happen.

Now she’s telling Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” exactly how they did it.

“There were people who had kind of been identified by us prior to our first days in the office, so to speak, at the RNC, who probably didn’t necessarily need to have a job there any more,” Trump tells Wheeler.

“This election, the RNC was kind of trying to be too many things, I think to too many people, and when you do that, you really can’t adequately do anything, right? You’re spreading yourself too thin,” she continues, noting that they instead decided to focus on three things.


“We said we want to have a world-class convention, we want to get out the vote, and we want to protect the ballot, and we’re going to focus on just those three things, and anyone who has ideas otherwise, quite frankly, maybe this isn’t the right place for you,” Trump explains.

In order to make sure this was a “free, fair, and transparent election,” Trump tells Wheeler that they made sure “that people understand someone is watching and that there will be eyes every time a vote is cast and counted.”

“We had to go to every single battleground state, and we had to get local media to cover the fact that we were going to have this huge election integrity push. So we opened offices all over the country, these election integrity offices, where we actually train people in terms of what you need to look for, how to be a poll watcher or a poll worker,” she explains.

Trump’s team set out a “lofty” goal to recruit 100,000 people to work in polling locations — and they ended up with 230,000 people. They also got 6,500 lawyers to identify potential problems and deal with those problems if they occurred.

“Most of these people, by the way, were volunteer attorneys,” she explains, adding, “We’re obviously very pleased with our outcome.”

Wheeler is impressed.

“I know some of the lawyers that worked for you; almost every smart, conservative attorney that works in media and politics was part of this, which is to say a lot of very impressive people were part of this,” she says.

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Not just a ‘conspiracy theory’: The TRUTH about Crossfire Hurricane



Crossfire Hurricane was a federal investigation that began with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her unsecured illegal home server.

“Not only did it have our nation’s most classified secrets, it also had evidence of the Clinton Foundation’s illegal pay for play foreign bribery schemes, where the Clinton Foundation was taking tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments, foreign entities,” Trump transition team member Mike Davis tells Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“When she was the secretary of state, she was doing favors in return for these donations. She got caught with her illegal home server, she took hammers to the devices,” he continues. “She destroyed the evidence. Obstruction of justice.”

Davis explains that her illegal home server was “almost certainly hacked by our adversaries.”


“What they were worried about with the Clinton campaign, with the Obama White House, with Joe Biden, was that this server would get leaked before the 2016 election by the Russians. And so, what did they do? They made up the Steele Dossier at Perkins Coie, a national law firm.”

“They used that Steele Dossier, just made up corrupt evidence, they gave it to the intel agencies, the Justice Department. They used that to get illegal spy warrants from the FISA courts on President Trump on his campaign, they continued to spy on him as the president of the United States, they hobbled his presidency, and they did this Crossfire Hurricane for the purpose of this,” he adds.

Had the evidence come out before the 2016 election, Davis explains that Clinton could have claimed it was a “dirty trick by the Trump campaign” in collusion with the Russians.

“And you say, ‘Oh, Mike, that sounds crazy, how can you be such a conspiracy theorist?’ Well, they did the same thing in 2020 with Hunter Biden’s laptop of the Biden family corruption,” he tells Wheeler.

Wheeler is impressed with Davis’ knowledge and assessment of the matter.

“This is why I want you to be attorney general,” Wheeler says. “I’m paying you a sincere compliment right now. I’m not just joking around about it. That’s the kind of understanding of the lawfare that has been targeting President Trump — and President Trump by the way is representative of us — this is the kind of understanding we need if we’re actually going to untangle this and reform these institutions.”

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Will Lara Trump replace Marco Rubio in the Senate? This is what she told Liz Wheeler



Now that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla has been chosen as Trump’s secretary of state, his Senate seat is open. Governor DeSantis is charged with appointing his replacement.

One of the names that has been floated to fill Rubio’s seat is Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

Today, Lara joined Liz Wheeler, host of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” to discuss the possibility.

“Is this going to happen? Do you want to be the next senator of Florida?” Liz asked.

“Obviously, this is up to Governor Ron DeSantis, and we’ll see who he ultimately feels is the right fit for the seat, but look – they’re big shoes to fill, obviously. Marco Rubio has held this Senate seat for a long time, and he really has the trust of the people of the state of Florida,” Lara responded, praising DeSantis for turning Florida from a swing state into a reliably red state.

“Now whether or not he wants me to be appointed to this position, obviously that's his decision to make, but here's what I can tell you: It has really been an honor to serve in the capacity that I have as co-chair of the RNC,” she told Liz.

“If I am asked to serve as the next senator from the state of Florida, it would truly be an honor. I have yet to be asked that, and we'll see what happens, but it would be something that I would absolutely consider doing,” she added.

“So you would say yes if Governor DeSantis said, ‘Do you want to be the next Senator from the state of Florida?”’ Liz asked.

“I would say yes,” she confirmed.

To hear more of their conversation, including about President Donald J. Trump's transition efforts and how the RNC enacted election integrity in Pennsylvania and beyond, watch the episode above.

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Calley Means: RFK Jr.'s radical plan for HHS



Former Coca-Cola lobbyist Calley Means first caught Liz Wheeler's eye when he spoke out about the company using “racism” to force the government into putting its product on the food stamps program.

“I thought, ‘What an extraordinary story. This exemplifies the corruption, the ideological corruption, the financial corruption, that is in our health care industry. This revolving door between Big Food and Big Pharma and the federal government,’” Wheeler says.

Now, Means is an adviser to RFK Jr. in the Make America Healthy Again movement that’s taken America by storm.

“I’ve gone from when President Trump first came down that golden escalator ten years ago thinking he’s a threat to democracy to believing that this election is by far the most important victory of our lifetime and, I think, a historic moment in American history where I’ve never been more excited about a president being elected,” Means tells Wheeler.


Wheeler is also thrilled by what’s to come.

“By marrying ‘Make America Great Again’ with ‘Make America Healthy Again,’” Wheeler explains that RFK Jr. and President Trump are telling those with autoimmune diseases, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity that “you don’t have to suffer this.”

And RFK’s plan to ensure they don’t have to suffer as they have been is the best part.

“We’ve heard a couple of promises from Bobby in the past couple days. One of my favorite ones is that he’s going to take all the nutritional scientists out of HHS and either fire them on day one, or if he’s not allowed to fire them, he’s going to build a new headquarters for them in Guam,” Wheeler says.

While the latter part of RFK’s statement was a joke, his plans to reform the American health care system are as serious as it gets.

“We’re going to return to science,” Means says. “I think what bad interests have realized is that there’s nothing higher-level in society than an NIH study. And I’ve actually, Liz, had conversations in the past three days with the senior-most members of the NIH who are defending the institution publicly, who are saying this is an absolute and utter dumpster fire.”

“There’s huge DEI regulations and parameters around what can and can’t be said, a feeling of absolute assault on academic freedom, and from what I’m hearing, when you add it up, eighty to ninety percent of NIH grants and funding goes to pharmaceutical R&D,” Means explains.

“We’re going to get any type of ideology out of our scientific guidelines,” he continues. “And that’s the key to everything.”

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The story behind the accusations against Matt Gaetz that no one is talking about



Virtually all of Trump’s cabinet picks have resulted in the left throwing a fit, but no one has sparked more controversy than former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is poised to replace Merrick Garland as attorney general should the Senate confirm him.

Besides being unapologetically brash and outspoken against the establishment, Gaetz is ruffling feathers because he’s had some serious allegations filed against him, the most notable being accusations of sex trafficking.

However, no indictments have followed, meaning that the scandal has either been buried intentionally or the accusations are false and this entire ordeal is a smear campaign.

Liz Wheeler is leaning towards the latter.

“We are going to untangle exactly who is behind the accusations against Matt Gaetz,” she says. “When you hear the whole story written out in a timeline of exactly what happened, when it happened, it is quite a phenomenal story.”


“Whenever [Gaetz] is mentioned in the mainstream media, for example, he’s always mentioned as being under ethics review by the U.S. House or having faced sex trafficking allegations,” she points out.

It’s important to establish that “people in Washington D.C. don’t like Matt Gaetz,” partially because “he was kind of a playboy,” partially because “he’s kind of obnoxious,” but most importantly because he’s been “a fighter for Trump” since 2016, she explains, adding that immediately following his election to Congress, Gaetz began butting heads with establishment GOPers.

“What happens in Washington, D.C., when you’re disliked by the establishment is that makes you a target,” Liz explains.

And that seems to be exactly what happened to him.

In 2020, the FBI suddenly started investigating Matt Gaetz for “allegedly having a relationship with a minor — a 17-year-old girl — ... and paying for her to travel over state lines.”

“If an allegation like this is true, then that’s the definition of sex trafficking,” says Liz. “So that’s where the sex trafficking allegations come into play.”

However, the person who enlightened the FBI to Gaetz’ alleged crimes is a scandal in and of himself.

The accuser’s name is Joel Greenberg, and he’s a former Florida tax collector who was indicted on 33 criminal accounts, including sex trafficking, theft, stalking, and cryptocurrency fraud, among others. Greenberg alleged that he was friends with Matt Gaetz.

Following Greenberg’s accusations, the Department of Justice began investigating Gaetz for a period of two years.

While the investigation was going on, “Gaetz said that he and his dad were the victims or were targeted for extortion.”

And he was correct — a businessman named Stephen Alford indeed tried to extort Don Gaetz for $25 million in exchange for making the investigation against his son “go away.”

“Gaetz and his dad instead cooperated with the local FBI office, and it resulted in Alford’s arrest, and he pled guilty to extortion,” says Liz.

Fast forward to later in 2022, and Biden’s DOJ announced it would not bring any charges against Matt Gaetz. The investigation was closed because both Greenberg and the 17-year-old girl Gaetz allegedly trafficked were found to be “non-credible.”

“In other words, they were such bad liars that even the Biden Department of Justice thought, ‘There’s no way that these two could be believable,”’ says Liz. “This is the Biden Department of Justice — the Biden Department of Justice that invents things in order to target their political enemy. ... There was so much nothing to these allegations that even the Biden DOJ dropped them.”

But there’s another layer to the story.

Back in 2021, an ethics investigation was opened on Matt Gaetz but was soon paused when the DOJ began its investigation into the sex trafficking allegations.

Then, in 2022, before former speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was elected, certain GOPers demanded a “series of reforms,” one of them being “that any single member of the House of Representatives could motion to vacate the chair.”

“Well, that fight was led by Matt Gaetz,” says Liz. Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted and replaced by Mike Johnson in 2023 as a result of the policy Gaetz championed, “hates Matt Gaetz.”

Prior to his removal, “the McCarthy-led House revived the ethics investigation.”

“In October 2023, Matt Gaetz motioned to vacate the chair, and McCarthy became the first speaker in U.S. history to be ousted,” says Liz.

“Kevin McCarthy claims that Matt Gaetz did this to squash the ethics investigation into him. Gaetz claims it’s because McCarthy was failing to uphold his promises, and now here we are in 2024. Matt Gaetz is nominated by president-elect Trump to be attorney general of the Department of Justice of the United States of America,” Liz explains.

The nomination led to Gaetz resigning from Congress, meaning that he can no longer be investigated by the Ethics Committee. Further, any reports it may possess “cannot be released publicly” now.

Liz calls the scandals surrounding Gaetz “personal, petty, political grievances”; “a character assassination of the worst kind”; and a “smear campaign from the depths of hell.”

To hear more of her commentary, watch the episode above.

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