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    Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is a conservative provocateur for our moment

    by Nash Jenkins Apr 16, 2018 5 minutes
    MATT GAETZ, on how Trump’s presidency is upending political convention

    IT’S 5 P.M. ON A RECENT THURSDAY AND Matt Gaetz is deep in the belly of the Capitol, preparing to make his fourth appearance on cable news since dawn. That rates as a slow day for the 35-year-old freshman Representative from the Florida panhandle. This one on Fox News, which for Gaetz is tantamount to batting practice. The real game comes when the incendiary conservative appears on MSNBC or CNN and provides the sort of contrarian commentary that has made him one of President Trump’s favorite members of Congress. In a few minutes, Gaetz will go before the cameras to bemoan the “full absurdity” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. But first he wants to explain his underlying philosophy.

    “The convention that one should never be perceived to troll another

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