Reading the Matt Gaetz Ethics Report

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Posted on 12/24/2024 4:50:56 AM PST by karpov

Whether Donald Trump realizes it or not, Republicans did him a favor by making clear that former Rep. Matt Gaetz was unconfirmable as U.S. Attorney General. On Monday the House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report from its misconduct inquiry into Mr. Gaetz, which found “substantial evidence” of drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape.

“The Committee heard testimony from over half a dozen witnesses who attended parties, events, and trips with Representative Gaetz from 2017-2020,” it says. “Nearly every young woman that the Committee interviewed confirmed that she was paid for sex by, or on behalf of, Representative Gaetz.” Some were first contacted via “a ‘sugar dating’ website,” the report adds. Mr. Gaetz “did not appear to have negotiated specific payment amounts.”

Yet the committee alleges that the terms of the deal were clear. “The women had a general expectation that they would typically receive some amount of money after each sexual encounter,” it says. One woman who got $5,000 over two years testified: “99 percent of the time that [Representative Gaetz and I] were hanging out, there was sex involved.” Text messages included lines such as: “Btw Matt also mentioned he is going to be a bit generous.”

The report says the record “overwhelmingly suggests” Mr. Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old at a house party in 2017, when he was 35, citing corroboration by “multiple individuals.” The woman testified she was given “$400 in cash from Representative Gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex.” She said “she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask.” The committee says it has evidence Mr. Gaetz didn’t learn her age until later, while noting that “statutory rape is a strict liability crime.”

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Full article. Gaetz is a sleazebag utterly unfit to be Attorney General, and the Freepers who deny that would condemn a Democratic AG nominee who had done the same things.

1 posted on 12/24/2024 4:50:56 AM PST by karpov

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2 posted on 12/24/2024 4:53:26 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)

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