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Former Florida Congressman (R) Matt Gaetz told the Timcast podcast this week that during his first American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) reception while in office, he and other politicians were given QR codes to wear around their necks so donors could scan them and donate on-the-spot “if they liked you.”
Gaetz explained, “I remember my first AIPAC reception, and like, your fundraiser tells you you have to go and your chief of staff tells you you have to go, your committee chair all tell you you have to go. You get there and you wear this name badge and I remember there’s a QR code on it!”
“What we were supposed to do is go talk to donors and if they liked you, they scanned your QR code to make a donation on-the-spot,” he said, asking, “Could you just imagine how demoralizing that is to be told that your job for the next several hours is to go chat people up hoping they would scan you like a can of tomato soup on the way out of the meeting?”
Gaetz also noted he’d found someone searching through his things while he was visiting Israel as a member of Congress.
AIPAC issued a response denying Gaetz’s claim, saying the barcodes are used “for security reasons, not fundraising.”
“Maybe Gaetz was confused because he wanted people to scan his barcode, and they didn’t even want to talk to him,” the group joked.
The former Florida rep. replied, “I read something in the history books that putting codes on people was really bad.”
“Are you actually denying that donors scanned people’s name tags to get their donation information?” he asked.
Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie (R) said Gaetz told him the exact same story in person years ago.
The accusation comes amid growing irritation among Americans at the insane amount of influence Israel has over U.S. politicians.
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