Posted on 04/03/2021 12:10:51 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
An alleged orgy with prostitutes. Accusations of sex with an underage girl. A trophy photo of a woman wearing only a hula hoop. And a convoluted extortion plot involving a likely dead American hostage in Iran.
Even by Florida standards, the Matt Gaetz saga is downright bizarre — and getting weirder by the day.
Before this week, the young Sunshine State congressman and ally of former President Donald Trump was best known, like his mentor, for his ambitious conservatism and promontory coiffure.
But this week, the Republican has faced a daily flurry of scandalous headlines.
Most seriously, he is being investigated by the Justice Department for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old girl, and for paying for her to travel with him across state lines, potentially violating federal sex-trafficking laws.
Gaetz denies the allegations — but not the fact of the investigation.
Then, on Thursday, CNN alleged that he had shown fellow lawmakers nude photos of women he said he’d slept with, including one photographed wearing a hula hoop, and nothing else.
There have also been claims by two of Gaetz’s enemies that the FBI has photos of him in a “sexual orgy with underage prostitutes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“It is pretty clear he did. Screenshots and videos of him and his buddy making fake ID’s for minors, an illegalID for himself, and said buddy under indictment for trafficking minors. It’s mind boggling to me that freepers are defending this creep”
I don’t know about any of that and have not been following very closely. I would not defend what you described.
**An alleged** STOP any words after that are news speak when facts arrive we will know.
Sounds like it... sure does give the press red meat to chomp onto as an excuse for ‘missing’ the bigger stories about Biden.
i did that many a day working from home without the jacket and tie, but shorts and sandals..
The operative part of this is, "none of these things should have been leaked" -- the implication being, the accusations are real. :^o
Stuff it, troll.
A federal judge has sentenced Florida businessman Stephen M. Alford to more than five years in prison for his involvement in a 2021 scheme to defraud Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father of $25 million.-—https://ijr.com/fraudster-hit-big-punishment-25-million-gaetz-family-extortion-attempt/
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