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Matt Gaetz: “When you're a witch hunter, you have to first convince…”

Featuring: Matt Gaetz, Republican | Former U.S. House, Florida's 1st District

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Matt Gaetz: Ted Cruz's Delusional 2028 Bid, the ADL, and Identity Politics Taking Over the Right

Published | Video Starts at 05:39

I would send money to the adl. I would. And I despise the ADL because that would be a defense of what's true and so needed. Why won't they do that? Well, When you're a witch hunter, you have to first convince people of the existence of witches. And so I think that for the broad goals of the adl, they have to make the country believe that we are somehow aligned against the Jewish faith. and against. But what they're saying is it's okay to discriminate against white Christians, but it's immoral to discriminate against Jews. (05:39–05:55)

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Asserts that the ADL needs to convince people of widespread anti-Semitism to achieve its goals.

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