Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
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"From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use," noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.
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The report found "substantial evidence" Gaetz engaged in rampant illicit drug use. The committee said it obtained text messages he sent where he referred to drugs as "party favors," "rolls" or "vitamins." It also said he created a fake email from his Capitol Hill office "for the purpose of purchasing marijuana." The report noted that Gaetz had denied using illicit drugs in his written answers to the committee.
In addition to sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, the report also accused Gaetz of accepting gifts of luxury travel in excess of permissible limits with the 2018 trip to the Bahamas. And, it said he arranged for his chief of staff to assist a woman with whom he had engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the State Department that she was one of his constituents.
No wonder the COFF wanted him as AG, Gaetz is a man after his own heart. And, like Felon^34, he wants revenge.
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Not one surprise there. The surprise is that it has been known and
finally surfaced as a "problem"..
AS to his revenge... getting all the "me too" fiends exposed might
be good for them all.
Eck!
Popcorn time....I only wish the train wreck schooling of America's Bare Majority Idiots wasn't going to have so much collateral damage. Being in the middle of that trainwreck is dire enough there's no pleasure in being able to say Toljaso.
I wanted to believe in America's decency and sanity. I can't anymore. It seems to me that it's not enough to be smart and moral...some how, you have to have some common touch like Bill Clinton or LBJ so that you can get through to the peckernecks and get them to realize they're being had and not stampede into the slaughter house. As it is, it's pearls before swine....which they just trample into the mud as they hustle oinking towards the swill.
Would the Gaetz report have been withheld if he was still under consideration for AG? I think so. But I'm very glad it's out as the contemptable pedophile now wants Marco Rubio's seat in the Senate. Maybe that's a bridge too far for DeSantis, but you never know with these guys.
SD- The $will trough (fed by Citizens United) has most politicians lining up for their share of the pork. It's no longer about the peoples' business or representation. The train wreck, as it were, will continue until term limits are implemented, campaign funds are boxed with an upper amount (equally distributed) to each candidate, and a neutral political media channel is created for messaging and debates. I would also like to see a constrained campaigning season; say 3 months at the most. Idealistically with some real time fact checking to keep things real.
And find a way to block foreign entities interference. That would make my Christmas list too.
Meanwhile, there's justice for Luigi:
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1hkuwwi/couldnt_be_any_conflict/
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