President Donald J. Trump hailed Congressional scrapper Rep. Matt Gaetz as a strong and talented leader during an exclusive interview with The National Pulse. Trump praised the Florida Republican for weathering a “Russia, Russia, Russia”-style attempt to take him out with a phony sex trafficking scandal that Trump says he “never believed for a second.”
Speaking to The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief at Mar A Lago, the 45th President of the Untied States described Gaetz, who has been linked with running for Florida Governor, as “a great guy” and “a wonderful person.”
“He’s strong, he went through hell for two years over something that I never believed for a second,” Trump said, adding: “He held up very strong… a lot of guys can’t hold up to that and they put themselves in a corner, put their thumb in their mouth and they say ‘Mama, take me home, get me out here,’ and Matt was strong.”
The former president said he could relate to the Florida firebrand because “what he goes through, I go through times ten” – and that he is able to weather it “because I see the love, I see the people, I see what we’re doing, I know what we’re right.”
“It’s a scam,” Trump concluded. “It’s another scam, it’s Russia, Russia, Russia all over again.”
Gaetz himself has referred to the Pulse+ as the “centerpiece of intellectual populist conservatism,” adding: “In Congress, when people talk about the thought leading investigations and analysis, we are very frequently talking about The National Pulse.”
The full interview can be seen, here.
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