Gaetz hammers former GOP colleague-turned-Disney lobbyist in tense exchange
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., asked his former GOP colleague whether he was concerned about Disney 'selling the information of children'
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., hammered his former Republican colleague-turned-Disney lobbyist in a tense exchange on Tuesday.
Gaetz turned the heat up on former House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., during the committee’s Tuesday hearing on government access to Americans’ personal data.
Goodlatte, who retired in 2018, was asked by Gaetz about his
work with Disney and what the Mouse House is doing to prevent children’s data from being sold.
"Like particularly with the Walt Disney corporation that it is in business with the Chinese Communist Party," Gaetz said, pointing to Disney thanking the Chinese government for allowing them to film on location where a literal genocide is taking place.
"Does it concern you that the Walt Disney corporation is selling the information of children?" Gaetz asked.
"I don’t know if that’s the fact," Goodlatte responded, with Gaetz asking if he was being "purposefully ignorant" while testifying against the practices Gaetz accused the Mouse House of using.
Gaetz went on to bring up a conversation the pair had as members in the Capitol Hill Club — DC’s prime, private hang-out spot for
Republican lawmakers.
"Chairman Goodlatte, do you remember a conversation you and I had when you lead this committee at the Capitol Hill Club where you said, ‘The best way to be successful in the Judiciary Committee is to find interest groups that are opposed to one another and to tell both of them that you'll support their positions so they'll both make donations?’" Gaetz asked.
Gaetz hammers former GOP colleague-turned-Disney lobbyist in tense exchange