Florida Congressman Tweets Thinly Veiled Threat To Michael Cohen

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 19: House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) talks with reporters before heading into a closed-door hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. The House Judiciary and Oversight committee are questioning Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr, wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. She is being questioned as part of the investigation into the opposition research dossier about then-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged personal and business ties to Russia that Republicans say is at the center of alleged Department of Justice misconduct during the 2016 election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz hasn’t been shy about offering up his blind loyalty to Donald Trump in the past. Now on the eve of Michael Cohen publicly testifying to Congress the Republican wrote on Twitter:

Drunk texting? Witness tampering? Or both!
— Amy Siskind ?️‍? (@Amy_Siskind) February 26, 2019

Hi there. This is witness tampering and Gaetz should be censured. Or arrested. https://t.co/HnrdkEEL8D
— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) February 26, 2019

Who wants to tell @mattgaetz that sitting members of Congress aren’t immune from indictment?
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 26, 2019

Congratulations to GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz, who just sent himself to prison with a single tweet: https://t.co/BFEC2OWUbK https://t.co/ueoUodeS17
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) February 26, 2019

Back in January Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis claimed Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani were also trying to intimidate his client.

“The last thing that Michael Cohen fears are partisan-hack questions from Republicans. We expect that. Let me be very clear. The House of Representatives now has an obligation, a resolution of censure, when the president of the United States indisputably intimidates and obstructs justice to prevent a witness from testifying, is in order. So is a federal, criminal investigation of Rudy Giuliani for witness tampering. Calling out a man’s father-in-law and wife in order to intimidate the witness is not fair game.”