Former President Donald Trump tore into outgoing Ohio Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez on Friday morning, after the lawmaker announced he wouldn't be seeking re-election with an outgoing message where he called Trump a 'cancer' and denounced 'toxic dynamics within my own party.'
Trump accused Gonzalez of being a 'Republican in name only' and reiterated his support for his own former aide's 2022 primary bid for the seat in an impassioned statement sent by Trump's Save America PAC.
'Good riddance to Anthony, he can now get himself a job at ratings-dead CNN or MSDNC!' the ex-president said.
Gonzalez was once a top recruit for the House GOP, but he quickly fell from favor after being one of 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump following the Capitol riot.
He was censured by the Ohio Republican Party as a result.
'RINO Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, who has poorly represented his district in the Great State of Ohio, has decided to quit after enduring a tremendous loss of popularity, of which he had little, since his ill-informed and otherwise very stupid impeachment vote against the sitting President of the United States, me,' Trump said Friday.
Ohio Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, revealed he won't be seeking reelection in 2022. He called Trump a 'cancer' for the country
Gonzalez has faced a brutal primary against the former president's protégé, Max Miller, who was accused of a pattern of aggressive behavior that includes allegedly slapping ex-girlfriend and former Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
The lawmaker's step back from politics is 'no loss,' Trump said.
'This is no loss for Ohio or our Country and, most importantly, we have a great candidate who was substantially leading Gonzalez in the polls, Max Miller, who I have given my Complete and Total
