Alan Ritchson Reveals Beef With Childhood Classmate Matt Gaetz: ‘That Motherf***er’
“We are adversaries,” the Hollywood star said of Gaetz.
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Reacher star Alan Ritchson kept it succinct when reflecting on his childhood classmate Matt Gaetz: “That motherf*****.”
While speaking to GQ ahead of the release of Reacher’s new season, Ritchson got some things off his chiseled chest and weighed in on the former Florida representative, whom he was classmates with while growing up in Niceville, Florida.
“That motherf*****. We are adversaries,” the actor began. “It’s shocking to me that the panhandle of Florida continues to vote for somebody—knowing everything we know about him and the promises that he’s made behind closed doors about pardoning certain criminals—he’s just not a good dude!”
Alan Ritchson fired off at his former schoolmate earlier this week.
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“There’s part of me that wants to get into politics to outdo somebody like him for good, and there’s part of me that’s like, I’m not duplicitous enough to succeed in politics,” Ritchson continued. “There are certain people that do a good job of staying true to who they are, but they’re ineffective. I think Bernie Sanders is a hero. But it’s like, what has he accomplished?”
Gaetz resigned from Congress last November after President Donald Trump nominated him for U.S. attorney general. The former congressman proceeded to withdraw from consideration a week later after a slew of reports on his alleged sexual misconduct came to light.
Matt Gaetz walks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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The House Ethics Committee had been investigating allegations that Gaetz slept with a 17-year-old, used illicit drugs and paid women for sex—though the investigation was effectively squashed when he quit the chamber. The Department of Justice opened its own investigation into Gaetz in connection with the matter, but later dropped the case without filing charges.
He has long denied the allegations—but a report from the committee released late last year alleged that there was “substantial evidence” that Gaetz “violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
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