AIPAC stated that Matt Gaetz was “confused” and anything but the life of the party after the former Republican congressman from Florida, who has criticized the U.S.-Israel relationship extensively, alleged that he was given a badge with a barcode for donors to scan at an AIPAC event.

Gaetz, nominated by Trump to be U.S. attorney general and who was the subject of ethics probes, said on the Timcast podcast on Tuesday—the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel—that at his first AIPAC reception, “you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot.”

“It was so weird,” he stated .

“The accusation about our fundraisers is, of course, a lie. Barcodes are on name badges for security reasons, not fund

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