NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has chosen Pete Davidson to portray fighting representative Matt Gaetz – despite the cast that went out with an 18-year-old last year.
Davidson, 27, appears as Gaetz (R-Fl.) In the cold opening of the program, in which the 38-year-old lawmaker was featured as a guest in a Britney Spears presentation interview for ‘The Social Pariahs of the Week. ”
During the appearance, Davidson, like Gaetz, Glenn Quagmire, quoted the hyper-sexualized character of “Family Guy” and repeatedly said “giggity giggity goo”.
Davidson dated Kaia Gerber, the 19-year-old supermodel and daughter of Cindy Crawford, until February 2020. She was then 18.
Many of them took to Twitter to take note of the affair after Davidson portrayed the Republican lawmaker, who allegedly slept with a 17-year-old girl.
“Pete Davidson, because Matt Gaetz is a little on his nose,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Pete Davidson as Gaetz was, of course, just as disturbing to him as to his fans,” wrote another.
The Florida legislature, in turn, has found itself embroiled in a significant amount of controversy over the past week.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the congressman was the subject of an investigation into whether he slept with a 17-year-old girl.
The investigation, according to the Times, stemmed from an investigation into Joel Greenberg, an ally of Gaetz who was charged last summer with sex trafficking – among other things.
Gaetz vehemently denied the allegations and instead claimed on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” later that evening that his family had been the victim of a $ 25 million extortion by a former Justice Department official.
The official, David McGee, a former federal prosecutor in Florida who now works for the law firm Beggs & Lane, denies the claims of extortion.
Gaetz also claims that the existence of the DOJ investigation was leaked to the media in an attempt to thwart the FBI investigation into the alleged extortion.
The GOP congressman, the son of Don Gaetz, a prominent former Florida politician, then told a stunned Carlson that his father had started wearing a wire to help the FBI with the alleged extortion investigation.
The senior Gaetz, 73, confirmed his son’s report on the wire to Politico in an interview on Wednesday, saying he wore it during a meeting with McGee in early March.
The former Florida Senate president further said he thanked the authorities for his participation.
“I told the FBI, ‘I’m willing to carry a thread and be cooperative,’ but I was asked to say things that are not true to give an acknowledgment, ‘” the retired Florida legislature said. nature of those ‘things’.
As controversy – and confusion – erupted over the bombings, the younger Gaetz was hit on Thursday with another allegation.
Several sources told CNN that the fighting congressman had shown photos of naked women with whom he claimed to have sex, with fellow lawmakers, and boasted of his conquests.
While on the floor of the house, Gaetz allegedly displayed the images of women from his telephone and talked about sex with them.
One video showed a naked woman with a hula hoop, one source told the network.
CNN’s allegation does not appear to be related to the DOJ investigation.