The 2020 presidential election happened 16 months ago, and Matt Gaetz still won’t shut up about it.The anti-LGBTQ congressman, who is currently under federal investigation, was fact checked by a reporter on Friday after he once again regurgitated ex-president Donald Trump’s 2020 election lie on live television.The awkward exchange happened between Gaetz and anchor Bob Solarski on northwest Florida ABC-affiliate WEAR-TV.When the congressman repeated Trump’s false claims of voter fraud then declared he was the true victor over Joe Biden, Solarski interrupted to say, “So, you’re still maintaining the 2020 election was stolen?
Are we still going with that?”Related: Literally nobody is buying Matt Gaetz’s latest attempt to clean his image“Listen, I believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 election,” Gaetz replied. “I believe that he won the Electoral College.”“You can’t say that without saying there was a gigantic conspiracy across this country and supervisors and election offices to make this happen and we haven’t still seen any evidence that proves that,” Solarski countered.To which Gaetz responded by going on a tangent about how judges don’t have “the courage” to challenge the results in court, and how he is a champion for election integrity, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.“I believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election,” Gaetz said.
pic.twitter.com/ZyeQcscS61— WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) March 4, 2022To be very, very clear, Gaetz is 100% wrong. Trump did not win the Electoral College or the popular vote in the 2020 presidential election.In other Gaetz news, last month his ex-girlfriend testified before a federal grand jury reportedly looking into whether the congressman committed three specific crimes: sex trafficking a.