Posted on 03/30/2021 7:08:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hours after the New York Times broke a story on the Justice Department investigating sex trafficking allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.), Gaetz appeared on Fox News’ Tucker to refute the claims.
Asked about the story by Tucker Carlos, Gaetz says “It is a horrible allegation, and it is a lie.”
Gaetz reiterated claims made on Twitter and elsewhere that the allegations stem from a former Justice Department official who was attempting to blackmail him. That official, who Gaetz named as “David McGee,” contacted Gaetz’s father, according to the Republican House member.
Gaetz says his family went to the local FBI in Florida, who then asked his father to wear a wire in his next meeting with the extortionist, who wanted millions of dollars in a “down payment” for the ransom.
The original reporting by the New York Times was confirmed by three unnamed sources. RedState has confirmed that Gaetz’s father did indeed wear a wire during the course of an investigation.
In the Times‘ original story, Gaetz is alleged to have traveled with an unnamed 17-year-old girl and that the Justice Department’s investigation is centered around this travel, which appears to include sexual relations and compensation, is tied to a Gaetz ally, Joel Greenberg. During the interview with Carlson, Gaetz says his travel records can prove no such trips took place.
The Republican, who is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, says he is the target of a smear campaign in an attempt to remove him from power. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.) has already posted a statement on Twitter calling for Gaetz to be removed from the House Judiciary Committee.
Rep Matt Gaetz should be taken off the @HouseJudiciary Committee until the @TheJusticeDept investigation is completed. He should not be sitting on a Congressional Committee with oversight over the DOJ while the Department is investigating him. https://t.co/TKRfSyCgHe
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 30, 2021
Gaetz has called for the release of any and all tapes from the wire his father wore, and promises that there is enough documentation to prove the allegations are false.
Why? How much power does the minority have on House committees?
Reminds me of Roy Moore
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/09/563087945/woman-accuses-alabama-senate-candidate-of-sexual-contact-when-she-was-14
I’ve no idea what’s what but it pull this out of the old memory bank.
Lieu is calling for the ouster of Gaetz yet Swalwell slept with a Chinese honeypot spy and nobody has said one word about that and dems even kept him on the Foreign Relations Committee.
> brightest and most loyal among Trump’s inner circle usually had some major flaw
Like the communist inner circle and staffers do not?
When are we going to understand that it is not about us being perfect or even good.
It is purely about one side wanting globalism and communism, and our side simply fighting for the USA and the Constitution.
So, your standards are impossible and irrelevant.
Never conceded a fight to the communists.
You will be doing good, by following the above. And they are at a level of evil beyond what we understand. They call evil good, and good evil.
Xiden's cadre has issued a no-holds-barred alert for every possible news tidbit and try to draw out every potential obfuscation for the border disaster.
The NYT actually screwed the pooch by giving Matt the heads-up! Gaetz was surely advised by Bannon to go on the pre-emptive attack (as a Democrat would do) and expose the wannabe-spook decrepit old D-lister McGee, who has no friends, who the Democrats already used and abused behind the dumpster 25 years ago...
This will be buried faster than the real news story about al-ISSA's activated sleeper cell, which I predicted would last exactly 2 news cycles and was exactly. right.
I think Tucker didn't appreciate Gaetz bringing up Tucker's situation and comparing it to his own.
Except it didn't happen. Thanks.
The hell it didn't come out.
What happened to the guy blackmailing Hastert, we know the rest.
Are you claiming you were there to see the act that did or didn’t happen? If so, better watch out, the FBI is coming. In reality, we will see if they have a real case and prosecute. If not, you are correct.
The biggest ‘concession to Communists’ in the past several years, honestly speaking (which they are still
Laughing about) was to North Korea.
General MacArthur would be pissssssed!!!
Yes. Bingo. That’s a terrible double standard. Slawell and Gaetz both need. to be shown the door.
And if it were 100% true and proven, some people in some quarters would still make excuses for such scumbaggery.
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