Thursday 9 June 2022 11:04 PM AOC calls Matt Gaetz a 'bad haircut, cheap suit' trends now

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Rep. Matt Gaetz a 'bad haircut in a cheap suit' after the Florida Republican suggested that Rep. Jamie Raskin's son's death by suicide made the congressman bitter and unfit to serve. 

'What I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin - no one would ever want to lose a child - particularly to suicide. As a human being our hearts go out to him but I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in Congress,' Gaetz said on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's podcast, MTG Live.

Gaetz said of Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and member of the House Jan. 6 committee: 'He's unable to do the sort of congressional experience outside of the dungeon of that personal trauma.'

Raskin's son Tommy Raskin died by suicide at the age of 25 on New Year's Eve 2021 after a bout with depression.   

'[Raskin] is a greater statesman, Congressman, human being than most of us. History will remember him. Tommy was a remarkable person and testament of his parents’ love. Gaetz is a bad haircut in a cheap suit, a feat of mediocrity given that he’s here on papa’s money. Bye,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. 

After Tommy's death, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced she would be going vegetarian for lent to honor the outspoken vegan and animal rights activist.