NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” chose Pete Davidson to play famed Matt Gaetz, despite the cast member dating an 18-year-old last year.
Davidson, 27, appeared as Gaetz (R-Fl.) At the show’s cold opening, in which the 38-year-old lawmaker appeared as a guest on a Britney Spears talk show for “The Outcasts social events of the week. ”
During the appearance, Davidson, as Gaetz, quoted Glenn Quagmire, the hyper-sexualized character of “Family Guy,” who repeatedly said “giggity giggity goo.”
Davidson dated Kaia Gerber, the 19-year-old supermodel and daughter of Cindy Crawford, until February 2020. She was 18 at the time.
Many on Twitter took note of the relationship after Davidson portrayed the Republican lawmaker, who is being investigated for allegedly sleeping with a 17-year-old girl.
“Pete Davidson and Matt Gaetz are a little too nosy,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Pete Davidson and Gaetz were obviously as disturbing to him as they were to his fans,” wrote another.
For his part, the Florida legislature has been embroiled in considerable controversy over the past week.
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the congressman was the subject of an investigation into whether he slept with a 17-year-old girl.
The investigation, the Times reported, emerged from an investigation into Joel Greenberg, a Gaetz ally accused last summer of sex trafficking, among other things.
Gaetz vehemently denied the allegations, instead in Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” later that night that his family had been the victim of a $ 25 million extortion plot at the hands of a former Justice Department official.
That official, David McGee, a former Florida federal prosecutor who now works at the Beggs & Lane law firm, denies the extortion claims.
Gaetz also claimed that the existence of the DOJ probe leaked to the media in an effort to thwart the FBI’s investigation into the alleged extortion scheme.
The Republican Party congressman, son of Don Gaetz, a prominent former Florida politician, told Carlson, stunned, that his father had begun carrying a wire to assist the FBI in that alleged extortion investigation.
Gaetz, 73, confirmed his son’s story to Politico in an interview Wednesday, saying he was wearing it during a meeting with McGee in early March.
The former Florida state Senate president went on to say he expressed his reservations to authorities about his involvement, noting that the operation would require him to register by making false statements.
“I told the FBI,‘ I’m willing to take wire and be cooperative, ’but I was asked to say things that aren’t true to get an admission,” the retired Florida lawmaker said at the exit, without specifying the the nature of these “things”.
As controversy and confusion erupted over the bomb allegations, young Gaetz received another indictment on Thursday.
Several sources told CNN that the conflicting congressman showed images of naked women with whom he claimed to have had sex with other lawmakers, boasting of his conquests.
While on the floor of the house, Gaetz allegedly showed pictures of women from his phone and talked about having sex with them.
A video showed a naked woman with a hula hoop, a source told the network.
It appears that CNN’s allegation has nothing to do with the DOJ’s investigation.