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Matt Gaetz Threatens to Rejoin Congress, Reveal Lawmakers’ #MeToo Settlements After Ethics Committee Votes to Release Lawfare Report
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 12/18/2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 12/18/2024 7:45:22 PM PST by bitt

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz threatened to rejoin Congress, expose lawmakers’ “Me Too” settlements paid out using taxpayer funds – and then resign from Congress.

Matt Gaetz floated the idea after the House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release a ‘damaging’ lawfare report on him.

Gaetz resigned from Congress last month after President Trump nominated him as US Attorney General.

The House Ethics Committee was going to release a “damaging” report on Matt Gaetz last month, but because he resigned from Congress, the committee lost jurisdiction.

Matt Gaetz threatened to air out his colleagues’ dirty laundry and expose every #MeToo settlement paid using public funds after the House Ethics Panel reversed course and voted to release the lawfare report.

Gaetz resigned from the 118th Congress but he was elected to the 119th Congress so he said he could get sworn in, do some damage and then resign:

Someone suggested the following plan to me:

1. Show up 1/3/2025 to congress

2. Participate in Speaker election (I was elected to the 119th Congress, after all…)

3. Take the oath

4. File a privileged motion to expose every “me too” settlement paid using public funds (even of former members)

5. Resign and start my @OANN program at 9pm EST on January 6, 2025.

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To: bitt

go ahead and do it, no need to announce it.


81 posted on 12/19/2024 11:45:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JayGalt
...the existence of such a list makes the persons on the list vulnerable to blackmail.
Removal from office seems more likely for that very reason.

There are many unsavory deals, payoffs and quid proquo occurring continuouslly in Congress. Are you suggesting that anyone who believes that, based on circumstances, to reveal some of these is to be excoriated for not revealing them sooner?

Are you saying unsavory deals, payoffs and quid pro quo should be allowed to happen without it being called out?
What kind of governance does that leave behind? What we now have?

82 posted on 12/19/2024 11:49:20 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Exactly what we have now. Think of the concerted pushback during Trump’s first term. It will take a team effort to clear the stables. An effort that I believe Gaetz is part of.


83 posted on 12/19/2024 12:05:33 PM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: JayGalt
An effort that I believe Gaetz is part of.
I'm pretty sure we'll revisit the subject in the future.

Be safe and Merry Christmas if we don't cross paths before then.

84 posted on 12/19/2024 12:15:58 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

And to you as well!


85 posted on 12/19/2024 12:33:41 PM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: philman_36

How is every member’s integrity imputed if somebody else had hush money paid for them?

In Gaetz’s case the secrecy of the hush money payments is hiding the fact that he was treated differently for sheer defamation and political purposes. For who else would that be true?


86 posted on 12/19/2024 2:45:18 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: philman_36

With Trump and Kash coming in there is the genuine threat that wrongdoer will be exposed. That makes this much more pointed than just doing business as usual, which is exactly what it was when DeSantis made the proposal and would be the same if anybody else did it either before, or now.


87 posted on 12/19/2024 2:48:48 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

Impugned. Darn auto correct.


88 posted on 12/19/2024 2:51:45 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion
How is every member’s integrity imputed if somebody else had hush money paid for them?

You've moved from impugned to imputed.

In Gaetz’s case the secrecy of the hush money payments is hiding the fact that he was treated differently for sheer defamation and political purposes. For who else would that be true?

Now you're trying to establish facts as evidence to which you can't know to be true. Do you know for a fact the Ethics Committee is taking their action for sheer defamation and political purposes or is that an assumption on your part?
Tricky answer when they say everything is above board.

89 posted on 12/19/2024 4:04:33 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: butterdezillion
Impugned.

Because they're members of the same body. If one is guilty anonymously they're ALL guilty publicly.

I'm surprised you had to even ask.

Parents to ten teens: Who broke the lamp?
Silence from teens.

Parents: You will all bear the punishment, both for breaking it and for not saying who did break it.

90 posted on 12/19/2024 4:14:39 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: butterdezillion
Kash and Trump won't be in Congress. You don't even know if Gaetz is going to be seated!

This is as much of a parlor trick as DeSantis' submitting a bill he knew would die in committee.

91 posted on 12/19/2024 4:25:26 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

If the people who got hush money paid are all yes-men to the Deep State the reason for Gaetz being singled out for unlawful exposure would be evident.

Which is why he has standing to demand those records be disclosed. Legal situations aren’t like mom and dad. In legal situations somebody wronged with particularized harm has standing AND the right to discovery. Goetz has that because they are specifically trying to slander him. Nobody else suffers particularized harm.


92 posted on 12/19/2024 4:44:05 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

He can’t do squat if he isn’t in office.


93 posted on 12/19/2024 4:55:43 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: butterdezillion
Goetz has that because they are specifically trying to slander him.

His recourse then, if that's the case, is the courts.

94 posted on 12/19/2024 5:04:10 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: butterdezillion

BTW, a written report would be libel.


95 posted on 12/19/2024 5:06:31 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

That’s why the plan would be for him to be in office long enough to do what must be done


96 posted on 12/19/2024 5:11:55 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

He doesn’t even know if he will, or can, be seated!


97 posted on 12/19/2024 5:15:36 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Can people file individual lawsuits against a House committee? Courts stay out of cases where there is supposed to be a political remedy.

That’s why the Deep State hides behind govt people. It bypasses due process and leaves victims with no way to exonerate themselves. That is what is so bad about these banana republic tactics. It HAS to stop.


98 posted on 12/19/2024 5:16:03 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: philman_36

Why couldn’t he be seated? He was elected to that seat. He only resigned from the old seat.


99 posted on 12/19/2024 5:17:29 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

A special election has already been scheduled.


100 posted on 12/19/2024 5:26:15 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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