Rep. Matt Gaetz spread antifa lie and facial recognition firm demands apology and retraction

On Wednesday night, Republicans attempted to pretend that their insistence on undermining democracy through continuous calls of election fraud did not contribute to the attempted coup d’etat on our nation’s Capitol earlier that day. Some Republicans clearly reworked their original speeches to temper down some of their more inflammatory rhetoric. But others, like Rep. Matt Gaetz, are too stupid, too lazy, and too dismal as humans to do even that.

Gaetz really doubled down on the day by telling the world that yes, what they saw did actually happen. But even though Donald Trump told those people to come, spoke to those people, and said he would walk them to the Capitol building, it was antifa pretending to be MAGA that actually attempted to coup d’etat. No, I’m not lying to you—that’s what he said. In fact, he said he had proof by way of high-level facial recognition technology! It’s been easily shown that the people Gaetz is claiming were antifa-connected are very much the opposite: They’re well-known white supremacist fascists. But Gaetz’s claims connected to a Washington Times article are being lambasted by the very company said to have made the facial recognition match.