She's also been working for Qatar since 2019. Notice the Ballard Partners notary well that is the firm that Susan Wiles worked for before Trump nominated her. James Rubin is another democrat player who worked for Biden and Clintons.Bondi is a very questionable choice/replacement for Gaetz. She was the Florida AG aka ringleader that tried to railroad George Zimmerman for the Trayvon Martin case. Thank god Zimmerman was found innocent.
She replaced all the local detectives, prosecutors et al with state investigators working for a new ‘special prosecutor’ Angela Corey.
Pam Bondi, was willing to put a transparently innocent man into prison; even to the extent of manufacturing a witness; in order to achieve a racially equitable political outcome that would assist her career.
Rick Scott was governor then and should know this. Heck even Jeb Bush is happy with this choice and congratulating her.
She's also been working for Qatar since 2019. Notice the Ballard Partners notary well that is the firm that Susan Wiles worked for before Trump nominated her. James Rubin is another democrat player who worked for Biden and Clintons.Must read on Gaetz
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859748387291107797.html
No wonder they call it “The Swamp”
I believe you, but
I haven’t been on the thread much today and just have a few minute right now, hope to post in a bit. BUt I have some thoughts about Trump’s proposed picks.
I have a feeling that many of these picks, perhaps like Gaetz, may be “bait and switch”, or picks to expose those who either like or don’t like, etc. Since Trump is a master chess player, he is never without good reasons. Plus these are so far theoretical picks; he won’t be in office until Jan 20 unless the Brunson case intervenes, and the TS accout @01010001 said some days ago that “Brunson Lurkingly Lurks”.
A lot can happen and/or change between now and when President Trump is back in the WH.
I fully expect the early drops, such as POTUS being out of the country on AF1, whicle giving the military temporary control, to happen.
Article about Gaetz and Greenberg (about whom I know less than nothing, never heard of him before). I subscribe to UndercoverDC, has some good articles. Posting part of it. I remember the account of his short fling with a woman who he thought was over age who was not. This explains that.
https://uncoverdc.com/2024/11/22/matt-gaetz-what-actually-happened
Matt Gaetz: What Actually Happened
Now that Matt Gaetz is out of the running, you’re going to hear a lot of takes on what happened and plenty of “keep your d*ck in your pants” lines, too. And while that’s always good advice, the story I’m about to share goes way beyond anything you could possibly imagine. So, if you’re interested in the whole story, consolidated in one place, of what really happened with and to Matt Gaetz, take a seat and let me tell you a story.
Part I: The Tax Collector
This story begins in the Fall of 2019 in Florida, with this man: Joel Greenberg. At the time, Joel Greenberg was 2.5 years into his first term as the Tax Collector for Seminole County.
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Greenberg is your classic rich kid who dinks through life, lighting fires that everyone else is forced to put out. He never lands hard because Daddy’s money always catches his fall. You know the type. We all do. Joel approached his role as a tax collector no differently than any other. By Fall 2019, Seminole County was awash with rumors about the federal investigation into Greenberg’s crypto scam with tax collector dollars.
These rumors inspired a local music teacher, Brian Beute, to throw his hat in the ring and challenge Greenberg in the Republican primary slated for the following year. Despite the many advantages Greenberg held over Beute in the race (incumbency, wealth, name recognition, etc.), Greenberg’s significant criminal activity as a tax collector likely contributed to his obsession with destroying Beute publicly and privately.
So, throughout late 2019 and into 2020, Greenberg rolled out a series of ever-escalating smear tactics targeting Beute. They started rather typical, labeling Beute, who is from Michigan, as a carpetbagger. But they grew increasingly vicious. He created fake Facebook profiles pretending to be Beute’s students, leaving comments on public posts trashing Beute as an awful teacher and a pervert.
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Greenberg’s antics finally reached an apex when he mailed handwritten letters to the administrators at the school where Beute taught, accusing him of sexually assaulting his students. Greenberg probably didn’t expect those letters to be taken so seriously, or he likely would’ve been a little more careful. But alas, he was not, and when the letters were turned over to the local sheriff’s office, both his fingerprints and DNA were lifted from them, and he was arrested on June 23, 2020, and charged by the DOJ with stalking.
Greenberg’s phone was confiscated and searched at the time of his arrest. Believe it or not, this is where his real legal troubles began. On his cellphone (and later home computers), police found evidence of Greenberg committing damn near every crime in the book: embezzlement, drugs, prostitution, identity theft, wire fraud, crypto market manipulation. But the silver tuna was a series of messages that occurred in the late spring through early Fall of 2017 between Greenberg and a then 17-year-old girl discussing, among other things, their many sexcapades around Florida and beyond. Further investigation revealed that from December 2016 through 2018, Joel Greenberg was a customer on a “Sugar Daddy” website where he solicited various women for sex and escort services. This is where he met the aforementioned 17-year-old.
[image of the above communication] and much more about Greenberg.
From what I can gather, Gaetz and Greenberg became acquainted sometime in the first half of 2017. The first public record of them associating on a private level comes from a picture posted to X (then Twitter) on July 8, 2017, with Roger Stone.
After getting arrested in June 2020, at some point, Mr. Greenberg (lawyer?) approached Bill Barr’s DOJ with a proposition: he claimed he could provide evidence that a sitting Congressman (Gaetz) had engaged in sex acts with a minor. Bill Barr’s DOJ then proceeded to open a secret investigation into these allegations, which remained a secret until it was leaked the following spring, on March 30, 2021, by The New York Times.
PART II: The Man In Iran
Faithful viewers of Tucker Carlson were treated to a peek behind the DC curtain on a random Tuesday night in late March 2021. Earlier that day, The New York Times had released a bombshell story alleging that the DOJ had opened an official investigation into Gaetz over allegations he had engaged in sex with an underage girl. Following Tucker’s opening monologue, he introduced Matt Gaetz and gave him free rein to tell his side of the story. Anyone watching is unlikely to forget soon the absolutely bizarre story that Gaetz proceeded to tell.
It involved a $25 million extortion threat against his father to help free an American hostage in Iran that would then be paid back with a presidential pardon for Gaetz on all these charges. Gaetz demanded that the FBI release the tapes they had in their possession of the recordings made by his father in interviews with his extortionist. He didn’t hesitate to name the alleged extortionist David McGee. Matt Gaetz said he was a former prosecutor for the Northern District of Florida and now works at the prestigious Biggs & Lane law firm in Pensacola.
He was resolute and unafraid when talking, yet he sounded like an absolute lunatic. I know. I was watching live, and I wasn’t the only one. Tucker was highly annoyed and unconvinced by the end, yet 3.5 years later, I know everything he said was TRUE.
Bob Levinson was the man in Iran. The official story is that he was a retired FBI agent who was contracted by a semi-off-the-books CIA unit to run a covert operation in Iran. He was kidnapped from Kish Island following a meeting with an American fugitive living in Iran that had been arranged by a former NBC producer named Ira Silverman. So Levinson was kidnapped in March 2007, and George Bush acknowledged his disappearance in June 2007 as “concerning.” However, no one from the federal government will admit that Levinson worked for the CIA.
MUCH MUCH MORE, ultra complex.
Part IV: Wrap Up
Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, identity fraud, wire fraud, and a host of other charges in May 2021. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, with 10 of those coming from the mandatory minimum imposed by the sex trafficking charge.
The DOJ did not close its case against Matt Gaetz until October 2022. They never publicly acknowledged why he was not charged, although it becomes pretty obvious once you learn that Joel Greenberg had produced fake IDs for the underage girl in question. How can you convict someone of statutory rape when this woman was using an actual state of Florida driver’s license to present as being of age?
But of course, because it’s the swamp, that’s not where Matt’s troubles ended. The snakes in DC were going to milk that investigation for all its worth, and when Gaetz went for McCarthy during the speaker fight, McCarthy and his allies plotted carefully to get their revenge.