Posted on 11/14/2024 4:58:28 PM PST by hardspunned
Prior to March 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz was known for prominently pushing against Beltway groupthink.
The colorful Florida congressman had been one of the few Republicans to help win the public relations battle against the Russia collusion hoax, the conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump had stolen the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.
When Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., held secret hearings, selectively released information, and lied about coordination with the so-called whistleblower during the Ukraine impeachment hearings, Gaetz led a group of Republican congressmen in protest. The move, which enraged the corporate media and other partisans, helped unify Republicans in their eventual defeat of the impeachment stunt.
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“On Friday, 18 months after he was accused of being a pedophile and child sex trafficker, the Washington Post published another anonymously sourced report. “Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Matt Gaetz,” said the article, published quietly on a Friday. Not only was he never convicted of any of the crimes he was alleged to have committed, he wasn’t even charged. And, if you believe the anonymously sourced claims, he isn’t going to be.
The damage was already done by the initial report, written by reporters who regularly regurgitate political leaks from Department of Justice and FBI sources.“
Then on March 30, 2021, all that changed with the publication of an anonymously sourced report accusing him of possibly being a child sex trafficker.
A group of New York Times reporters who won awards for their roles pushing the Russia collusion lie penned an anonymously sourced article with a devastating headline: “Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl.” The story was sourced to “three people briefed on the matter,” none of them identified in any way. The story contained no evidence against Gaetz of sex crimes, but much guilt-by-association. Late in the story, the pack of reporters admitted that no charges had been filed and that the “extent of his criminal exposure is unclear.”
Gaetz strenuously and immediately asserted his innocence and denied the accusations.
Most of Trump’s appointments have suffered false accusations from the FBI. I think he is gathering his troops to squash them. I hope so.
This is the same fake news from 2 years ago.
Yawn.
If they hate him, we want him.
Need to disband the FBI and open the ....
FJB - Federal Justice Bureau!
To these members of the FBI: are you ready to pay the piper?
Daniel Day Lewis is a wonderful movie star. I loved that movie called, “There Will Be Blood”. I wonder if Gaetz saw it?
standard playbook by political hacks masquerading as prosecutors
i have even seen it done at the local level
these political hacks belong in jail
Exactly—all the usual suspects are howling in pain.
The flak tells us we are over the target.
On the year anniversary of the original Gaetz story, journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote that leaks “have the effect, and often the intent, of destroying someone’s reputation, convicting them of repellent crimes in the court of public opinion that will never be brought in a court of law, thus relieving the state of the requirement to prove the crime and depriving the accused the opportunity to exonerate themselves.”
If there is a secret to-do list in Matt Gaetz’s mind, and if he wants to get the undying admiration of President Trump and the American people, it will be seeing on TV (or in person) Merrick Garland in handcuffs and leg irons being perpwalked down Pennsylvania Avenue.
FBI = Federal Bureau of Incineration!
Remember WACO.
This is the same corrupt agency that cross-dressing freak and well known blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover ran for so long.
What would ANYONE respect these thugs?
And with party members like Cornyn who needs the Democrats.
And move it out of that crap hole WDC......and charge agents past and present including Wray with sedition and lying under oath
This could stand on its own to be a documentary on how the Deep State cancels people. 
That is why Gaetz is perfect.
An FJB being created would be just as unconstitutional as the current existing FBI is.
Abolish. No replacement. Restore the Constitution.
(Yes, I saw what you did there with the Brandon reference.)
Disappointment with some Freepers here. They are giving up without a fight. Matt is perfect for the Job. No more back stabbing wimps like Sessions or Barr.
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