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The investigation includes allegations from witnesses and other evidence that Gaetz may have used cash and drugs in his dealings with young women, CNN previously reported
Num. 32:23 and be sure your sin will find you out.
 
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So Gaetz has some hope then.

Maybe not (from a tweet by Paula Reid of CNN):

“I am sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today,” - attorney for Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg on whether Congressman has anything to worry about now that his friend & associate is likely to plea.
 
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Maybe not (from a tweet by Paula Reid of CNN):

If he hangs around Trump long enough he'll have legions of Trumpers explaining to the world why what he did wasn't actually all that bad. The sleazier they are, the more they get the whitewash treatment.
 
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The legal peril Rep. Matt Gaetz is facing appeared to increase sharply Thursday after a court hearing indicated that one of Gaetz’s close friends, former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector Joel Greenberg, is likely cooperating with federal prosecutors.
 
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Gaetz Paid Accused Sex Trafficker, Who Then Venmo’d Teen

In two late-night Venmo transactions in May 2018, Rep. Matt Gaetz sent his friend, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, $900. The next morning, over the course of eight minutes, Greenberg used the same app to send three young women varying sums of money. In total, the transactions amounted to $900.

The memo field for the first of Gaetz’s transactions to Greenberg was titled “Test.” In the second, the Florida GOP congressman wrote “hit up ___.” But instead of a blank, Gaetz wrote a nickname for one of the recipients. (The Daily Beast is not sharing that nickname because the teenager had only turned 18 less than six months before.) When Greenberg then made his Venmo payments to these three young women, he described the money as being for “Tuition,” “School,” and “School.”
 
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The legal peril Rep. Matt Gaetz is facing appeared to increase sharply Thursday after a court hearing indicated that one of Gaetz’s close friends, former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector Joel Greenberg, is likely cooperating with federal prosecutors.
CNN, the Trumpers nemesis, is all over on how it looks like Greenberg has flipped. And one cannot flip unless one has something of substance to offer.

I wonder how much longer the Republicans will continue to pretend that nothing has happened. Democrats learned their lesson a while ago. Al Franken was accused of far less than what Gaetz has been accused of and he was dumped rather quickly.
 
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CNN, the Trumpers nemesis, is all over on how it looks like Greenberg has flipped. And one cannot flip unless one has something of substance to offer.

I wonder how much longer the Republicans will continue to pretend that nothing has happened. Democrats learned their lesson a while ago. Al Franken was accused of far less than what Gaetz has been accused of and he was dumped rather quickly.

In 2016, Cancun Cruz cancelled one of his campaign commercials because one of the actresses in it had previously been in soft-core adult movies. Then a short while later he endorsed for president a man who was on the cover of Playboy.
 
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Gaetz Paid Accused Sex Trafficker, Who Then Venmo’d Teen

In two late-night Venmo transactions in May 2018, Rep. Matt Gaetz sent his friend, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, $900. The next morning, over the course of eight minutes, Greenberg used the same app to send three young women varying sums of money. In total, the transactions amounted to $900.

The memo field for the first of Gaetz’s transactions to Greenberg was titled “Test.” In the second, the Florida GOP congressman wrote “hit up ___.” But instead of a blank, Gaetz wrote a nickname for one of the recipients. (The Daily Beast is not sharing that nickname because the teenager had only turned 18 less than six months before.) When Greenberg then made his Venmo payments to these three young women, he described the money as being for “Tuition,” “School,” and “School.”

I can picture the spin - the recipient isn’t named, therefore all of it is made up.
 
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It’ll get to the ‘he isn’t really a Republican’ stage at some point, then that will be that. Gaetz was never one of us, hence he did bad things probably because of some liberal leanings etc.
 
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In 2016, Cancun Cruz cancelled one of his campaign commercials because one of the actresses in it had previously been in soft-core adult movies. Then a short while later he endorsed for president a man who was on the cover of Playboy.
Wait, wait. I don't understand. Are you implying that Republicans under and after Trump have become incredible hypocrites?
 
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I hear there's no such thing as bad publicity.

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