Gaetz Says Boebert, GOP Women In Congress 'Get It Worse Than The Men'

Conservative women in Congress are treated “worse than the men,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. said, specifically coming to the defense of freshman "firebrand" Rep. Lauren Boebert.

Gaetz backed Boebert, R-Colo., who has repeatedly drawn the left's ire, in an interview with Real America’s Voice. Boebert has been pilloried for a video indicating she wanted to pack heat while in the Capitol and caught flak again recently for a video mocking Democrat support for barriers around Congress but not for a border wall.

"The Republican women in Congress get it way worse than the men because of the identity politics, and [Democrats] assume that if you're a mom in regular America, you ought to be with them," Gaetz said. "So when they see someone who is a firebrand, who is a spark plug, who is a jolt of energy that we need in the Republican caucus, they come after her specifically."

Gaetz added that Boebert has become a target of Democrats — and cited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., by name for her post-Capitol breach announcement in January that magnetometers would be installed in the building, adding some lawmakers were “being a danger” to one another.

"It shouldn't be that not only is the president of the United States inciting an insurrection, but [he] keeps fanning the flame, endangering the security of members of Congress to the point that they're even concerned about members in the House of Representatives being a danger to them," Pelosi said.

She further clarified a comment that “the enemy is within” meant that “we have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress."

"That was all you,” Gaetz told Boebert in the Real America’s Voice interview, adding Democrats “were so threatened by this Republican woman.”

Boebert has been an unrelenting defender of the Second Amendment and the rights of gun owners.

“Even though I now work in one of the most liberal cities in America, I refused to give up my rights, especially my Second Amendment rights,” she said in January, according to the Washington Examiner. “I will carry my firearm in D.C. and in Congress.”

D.C. police Chief Robert Contee has said Boebert was issued a concealed carry permit in the district.

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