Matt Gaetz

[Nihilist Virus]

Did he do it?

 

[Goonie]

And the 2021 award for pithy OP without links goes to.........

 

[Nihilist Virus]

Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl

 

[trunks2k]

He's claiming that it's an investigation into attempted extortion against him, but supposedly his timeline of events don't match up with what the Times reported. Though it makes the stories of him planning an early retirement make more sense.

On the other hand, the whole thing with his son Nestor is really strange and raises red flags for me, at least on the surface.

 

[Kentonio]

Bizarrely, after Tucker Carlson gave him a free chance to explain himself, Gaetz decided to use the opportunity to bring up claims against Carlson that hardly anyone knew about..

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1377058722942496769

 

[Elliewaves]

I'm just surprised it's, allegedly ,with a girl.

And I don't get the timeline either. The guy was supposedly extorting him for $25 million to make the case go away. Which means the case was already ongoing and not just something made up on the spot to take heat off the extortionist. So even if the extortion part is 100% true, it still means Gaetz has been under investigation by the FBI for some time. I would not be surprised if the FBI was tricking him into thinking he was cooperating with an extortion attempt to get him to incriminate himself.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

He's certainly acting guilty - almost cartoonishly so.

 

[Ceallaigh]

Maybe

 

[DaisyDay]

Too soon to say. I really have no idea but I have been reading about it for a few days. Details are sparse still.

 

[essentialsaltes]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Matt Gaetz defends lone no vote on anti-human trafficking bill

 

[essentialsaltes]

The investigation into Gaetz’s alleged relationship with the 17-year-old grew from a federal case against a different Florida Republican: Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County tax collector who was charged last summer with sex trafficking of a child and a medley of other offenses.

According to an indictment in the case, Greenberg abused his access to a statewide database, using it to look up the personal information of people with whom he was in “sugar daddy” relationships, including the minor, and to help produce fake identification documents to “facilitate his efforts to engage in commercial sex acts.”

 

[iluvatar5150]

How is that real?
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1161062269641474049?lang=en

 

[essentialsaltes]

How is that real?
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1161062269641474049?lang=en

Obviously, Florida has a reputation as a place for retirement. So the first implication is that sexy is pushing the older end of the age spectrum. But the second implication is the kind of subtle cue that people who shoot up pizza parlors could never pick up on.

 

[mala]

What makes it really ironic is this.

Matt Gaetz - Wikipedia

Human trafficking
Gaetz was the lone no vote on the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act, a bill allocating additional government resources to help combat human trafficking.[87][88] Gaetz later explained that his vote was due to his small government principles, believing that existing federal agencies could adequately combat human trafficking and stating that "voters in Northwest Florida did not send me to Washington to go and create more federal government."[88][89]

he seems like the type of person who was never told no as a kid by his parents. well you raise a sack of crud you end up with an older sack of crud. but i mean really what do we expect from them. trump boasted about walking into teenage girls changing rooms to sneak a peak in his beauty pageants.

 

[VirOptimus]

Hes done.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Hes done.

Judge Roy Moore/Matt Gaetz '24!

 

[iluvatar5150]

Judge Roy Moore/Matt Gaetz '24!

Ted "I Am the Legal Guardian of My Underaged Wife" Nugent could play all of their campaign rallies.

 

[Albion]

Too soon to say. I really have no idea but I have been reading about it for a few days. Details are sparse still.

That's a very mature approach to the matter. Much better than those who, upon hearing the first mention of the accusations, immediately "knew" all about his childhood, private thoughts, whether he is guilty of anything or not, etc.

 

[Albion]

Judge Roy Moore/Matt Gaetz '24!

Ah yes. I'd forgotten the job they did on Roy Moore, but did remember it used on Herman Cain, Judge Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and others.