‘Equal-opportunity attacker’: Sharpton bristles at Gaetz confrontation in chaotic House hearing

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A House Judiciary Committee hearing about police brutality devolved into chaos after Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz confronted Al Sharpton over things he has said over his long career of controversial statements.

Gaetz, 37, brought up an old resolution MSNBC host Joe Scarborough introduced when he was a congressman, which condemned Sharpton for “racist and anti-Semitic views,” including calling Jews “blood-sucking Jews” and “Jew bastards.”

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