“Hey @MichaelCohen212,” Gaetz wrote in his tweet, which has now been deleted, addressing Cohen by his Twitter handle. “Do your wife & father-in-law…
“Hey @MichaelCohen212,” Gaetz wrote in his tweet, which has now been deleted, addressing Cohen by his Twitter handle. “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…”
Following an immediate and intense public backlash against the statement, which was generally characterized as a textbook example of witness intimidation, Gaetz initially defended the statement, indicating that his words represented “what it looks like to compete in the marketplace of ideas,” a common expression which virtually no one would use to describe publicly musing about the marital indiscretions of a political figure.
