Another Media Hit Piece Goes Up in Flames: Florida Man Pleads Guilty in Attempt to Extort $25 Million from Father of Matt Gaetz

Gateway Pundit ^ | 11-28-21 | Jim Hoft

[traderrob6]

Interesting. I think I have heard it used over the years so often that it has become ingrained in my mind as being proper.

[Mr. K]

Have you read that? I'll have to go read it.

[TigersEye]

In the 1960s pled was the only word used in newspaper articles. It’s in the dictionary.

verb
a simple past tense and past participle of plead.

[Joe Brower]

Predictably, 'mainstream' media coverage of the failure of this sorry attempt at character assassination doesn't get 1/100th the ink that the original allegation did.

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[Maris Crane]

Again, I must be missing something.

The article claims Matt names the “Former FBI official” as David McGee. He is supposed to be the blackmailer.

All of a sudden a Steven Alford is named. Who is that?
What happened to McGee.

I am going back to read again.

[piasa]

In light of the investigation, Alford reportedly promised the Gaetz family that if they paid him $25 million to help free a U.S. hostage in Iran, then President Joe Biden would pardon Gaetz in the ongoing child sex trafficking investigation, the Daily Beast reported..-—— Western Journal, https://ijr.com/fraudster-hit-big-punishment-25-million-gaetz-family-extortion-attempt/

No doubt part of his plea involved him having to say Biden had nothing to do with the extortion.

[Fresh Wind]

We had posters here doubting Gaetz.

Even worse, they chose to believe the New York Times rather than Gaetz.