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Matt Gaetz tapped for AG
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Anonymous
Yes, everyone knew he didn't make that up. |
Anonymous
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https://wapo.st/3YU6Fzh
Gaetz paid for sex with teenagers. What a disgusting creep. |
Anonymous
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The speaker of the house says “we are in a different era.”
In other words, integrity, honesty, and accountability means jack crap these days! |
Anonymous
Trump still stood behind his pick. “Matt Gaetz will be the next Attorney General,” he said, noting that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department ended the investigation into Gaetz without charges. … “He’s the right man for the job and will end the weaponization of our justice system,” Pfeiffer continued. “These are baseless allegations intended to derail the second Trump administration.” Fine people, all of them. Note that they are working on reducing ages of consent in res states too. |
Anonymous
Is your brain broken? You’re ok with child rapists? No need to put them in jail? |
Anonymous
What utter and complete bullshit. Gaetz IS GOING TO weaponize the DoJ, to go after Democrats and anyone who dares tell the truth about the right wing. That's the WHOLE POINT of why Trump nominated him. |
Anonymous
It’s not the left, it’s the corporate donors behind them *wink wink* Wall Street. The left IS fighting for the Washington establishment not the working man. Trump is an outsider and he’s picking choices that aren’t inside the beltway or wall street favorites like gaetz. Wall Street runs the country. When Eliot Spitzer wanted to jail the bankers, a sex scandal brought him down despite there being a Democrat DOJ and president and his dalliances being perfectly legal. The dems and media turn on their own if Wall Street says go |
Anonymous
| Wall Street also didn’t like Vance and tried hard in the first few weeks to bash him and get trump to choose someone else and he didn’t. Trump is loyal to those loyal to him and I think he will stick by all his choices. He knows he has a mandate among the Republican Party so it’s either put up or shut up. They are going to grit their teeth and confirm him |
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The two witnesses have massive credibility problems. The claims arose from Joel Greenberg, “one of the most corrupt Florida politicians of all time,” according to Florida reporter Marc Caputo, who is now with the anti-Trump media outlet The Bulwark.
Among many things the former Seminole County tax collector admitted to as part of a wide-ranging case for which he is currently serving 11 years in prison was falsely accusing local political opponent Brian Beute of having sex with a minor, similar to the outlandish claim he made against Gaetz. Greenberg also reportedly later attempted to frame his own attorney with pornographic images of children. One New York Times writeup of Greenberg was headlined, “Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector.“ According to the Washington Post, Greenberg admitted to “fabricating allegations against a schoolteacher who was running against him to be a tax collector. Greenberg had sent letters to the school falsely claiming the teacher had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student — a similar allegation to the Gaetz case.” Too Ridiculous For Even The DOJ The politicized employees at DOJ have shown themselves willing to explore novel legal theories and bend federal rules to the breaking point in pursuit of their most reviled political opponents, most notably former and future President Trump. Gaetz has a reputation as one of the most tenacious cross-examiners of DOJ officials from his perch on the House Judiciary Committee. Yet even the DOJ was unwilling to exploit Greenberg’s unsubstantiated claims — apart from leaking them to the press to hurt Gaetz’s reputation. They announced their closure of the investigation in 2022. The House Ethics Committee, however, decided to pick up the dropped and deflated ball and run with it a full year after DOJ dropped the investigation. The fact that the disgraced Greenberg was cooperating with the House Ethics Committee was shared for publication with The New York Times and other media outlets. |
Anonymous
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The news media “should not be laundering smears from people in prison,” a Gaetz spokesman said at the time. Gaetz speculated that the House ethics investigation was punishment for his leading role in the controversial defenestration of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a move that angered many of his Republican colleagues.
The colorful representative and Trump ally has also won few friends on the Hill by pointing out his colleagues’ suspicious stock trades. Prior to marrying Ginger Luckey in 2021 and settling down, he had a reputation in D.C. for being a partier and dating many women. The lawsuit shows that Greenberg “became insistent” that Gaetz help him obtain a pardon for his various crimes. When he was repeatedly told that wouldn’t happen, Greenberg reportedly said he would seek vengeance on those who refused to help him during his time of need. It was at this point that Greenberg began claiming without evidence that Gaetz and a variety of other Republicans and local businessmen were involved in his criminal actions, the lawsuit says. Greenberg was paying the legal bills of Gaetz’s accuser. He allegedly lied about Gaetz to “reduce his own prison sentence,” according to the lawsuit. The latter claim was supported by a September letter from Gaetz to the House Ethics Committee. Gaetz revealed a letter from a jailhouse informant who shared a holding cell with Greenberg when Greenberg admitted “making stuff up about” Gaetz as part of a plan to lighten what could have been as much as a 27-year sentence in federal prison. He was eventually sentenced to 11 years for his role in sex trafficking, identity theft, public corruption involving taxpayer money and contracts, stalking, and securing fraudulent federal business loans. Two former federal agents interviewed the inmate, who told them Greenberg said the woman Greenberg was convicted of having sex with as a minor “would be willing to adopt Greenberg’s lie in hopes of a future financial benefit.” |
Anonymous
No one wants to admit that Washington is basically one giant black-mail operation. It lets us think the guys who get "outed" actually did something wrong, instead of it just being a power struggle that spills over into the news. |
Anonymous
Haha so true. |
Anonymous
Um, the guy who orchestrated the sex scandal that brought Spitzer down was Roger Stone. |
Anonymous
Yes everyone knows Greenberg is a nightmare, there’s pages and pages about him in the original Gaetz threads here https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/962701.page and here https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/961650.page and in the GOP Corruption thread. But he was best buds with Gaetz (and DeSantis) for years. |
Anonymous
Please explain in details what happened... |