Matt Gaetz's week just got way worse






Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

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More Republican nonces to keep Matt company!



Thinskin

 

Matt Gaetz favorably compares Trump with the Taliban -- and gets buried in mockery





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On Wednesday, in response to an article from a right-wing blog about how Twitter is letting the Taliban do business on their social network despite banning former President Donald Trump, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared to compare the Taliban favorably to Trump, saying that they "should both be on Twitter" and are "more legitimate" than either the former government of Afghanistan or President Joe Biden's administration.

Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
Taliban and Trump should both be on Twitter. More legitimate than the last government in Afghanistan or the current government here.

Sean Hannity
@seanhannity
Twitter’s Taliban Problem https://thedrilldown.com/newsroom/t...k-dorsey-co-ban-trump-but-promote-terrorists/
12:07 PM · Aug 18, 2021

Gaetz's remarks drew outrage from commenters on social media, who tore into the congressman for suggesting that an extremist group infamous for abusing women is "legitimate". Some responders even linked the Taliban's violence against women to Gaetz's own federal sex trafficking investigation.


Raine-MAGA#NeverSurrender #IGotYourSix she/her
@wndrling
And again @RepMattGaetz proves why he should be removed from office. Supporting a terrorist organization. @SpeakerPelosi

Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
Taliban and Trump should both be on Twitter. More legitimate than the last government in Afghanistan or the current government here. https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1428050656435314697
2:38 PM · Aug 18, 2021

K.C. Banks - Chronic Re-Tweeter
@kenbax47
I would have never believed it possible for elected official @RepMattGaetz to stoop any lower, to be even less patriotic, until he began rooting for a global terrorist group whose agenda is to annihilate America. #GOPDomesticTerrorists

T J Therien
@tjtherien
Another Republican Lawmaker openly advocating for terrorists and terrorist causes.

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-trump-2654713625/

 

Here's the latest for all you Repedos out there supporting Matt Gaetz!



Thinskin

 

Matt Gaetz critics stunned after he posts 'creepy' photo of his fiance sleeping

Tom Boggioni
August 21, 2021



Matt Gaetz (Screen Capture)


On Saturday morning, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took to Twitter to post a picture of his fiance that he took of her as she was sleeping, that stunned critics of the Floridan Republican who is already under fire for allegedly paying under-aged women for sex.

With Gaetz already under investigation at both the federal and state level over his reported sexual shenanigans, he took the opportunity to humiliate fiance Ginger Lockey by taking a selfie with her as she slept with her head back and her mouth wide open.

Posting it to Twitter, he wrote, "So blessed to be with the beautiful ⁦@LuckeyGinger."

That set off a flood of comments, including one that called his actions "Disgustiing predatory behavior."

You can see more like that below:


Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
·
Aug 20, 2021
So blessed to be with the beautiful ⁦@LuckeyGinger⁩


Beatrice Cardenas
@RealBetyCardens
Having Congressmen who behave like this and post these kinds of pictures make me rethink being a part of this group. This is so beneath dignity.
9:05 AM · Aug 20, 2021


Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
·
Aug 20, 2021
So blessed to be with the beautiful ⁦@LuckeyGinger⁩


Mrs. Betty Bowers
@BettyBowers
It looks like you Bill Cosbyed her. Frankly, no surprise there.
8:17 PM · Aug 20, 2021

Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
·
Aug 20, 2021
So blessed to be with the beautiful ⁦@LuckeyGinger⁩


ButtersUnityLarue
@Buttersunity
This is such disgusting predatory behavior. I'm sure you have a gallery full of them.
8:20 AM · Aug 20, 2021


Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
·
Aug 20, 2021
So blessed to be with the beautiful ⁦@LuckeyGinger⁩


Dr. Jack Brown
@DrGJackBrown
Your act of posting a pic of her captured while she was sleeping, without her permission, particularly in a position which she would not approve, is further testimony to your misogyny, objectification, crassness, oafishness, and complete lack of empathy.
6:34 PM · Aug 20, 2021

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Poor Matt, can't catch a break.
Gives his girlfriend a big old compliment, and the despicables pile on.
Course, Shooter hasn't found a dispicable recently who loves anything but themselves and their mission anyway .....

 

Do, that would be stumbler again, talking out his ass.

 

It's been a spell sense I last checked on ole' Matt...is he in jail yet for...well, whatever the hack fuck leftists claimed/suggested/speculated/projected he should be in jail for?

 

Probably didn't want to rusk gong to disease infested Florida.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Marries Ginger Luckey in Southern California Ceremony
‘I LOVE MY WIFE!’

Cheyenne Ubiera
Breaking News Intern

Published Aug. 22, 2021 6:58PM ET

Joe Raedle/Getty
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is off the market. The congressman and girlfriend Ginger Luckey were wed on Saturday in Southern California, and Gaetz tweeted a picture of himself and Luckey captioned “I love my wife!” The small ceremony reportedly had 40 guests and was officiated by Sergio Gor, a former staffer for Sen. Rand Paul. Gaetz is still under investigation by the Department of Justice for alleged sex trafficking after his buddy, Joel Greenberg, pleaded guilty in May to multiple federal crimes, including sex trafficking of a child. Gaetz has been accused of playing a role in Greenberg’s crimes which includes an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-m...ckey-in-southern-california-ceremony?ref=home

 

Aw, congratulations to the happy couple!

Triggering the despicables is just a bonus.

 

Matt Gaetz Failed to Properly Disclose His Abysmal Book Sales
Roger Sollenberger
August 25, 2021·6 min read
In this article:

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Amid a Justice Department investigation into alleged sex crimes and a related House Ethics probe, beleaguered congressman Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appears to have committed at least one much smaller but more straightforward federal violation: failure to disclose how much money he made from a book he published last September.

When The Daily Beast inquired about the omission last week, a Gaetz spokesperson said the office needed “additional documentation” from the publisher and was “in the process of receiving that information and amending the Congressman’s financial disclosure.” Sure enough, an amended financial disclosure was filed three days after The Daily Beast reached out asking about the undisclosed book income.

The Gaetz spokesperson did not answer follow-ups about the nature of the documents and why Gaetz did not have them when he filed his original disclosure several days ahead of deadline.

But the amendment itself raises its own questions. Gaetz reported that his publishing contract awarded him 60 percent royalties—a share normally reserved for online distributor sales of self-published work, and more than double the typical hardcover royalty rates. House rules require lawmakers to request permission from ethics officials to accept royalties, which can be granted if the publishing deal is under “usual and customary contractual terms.”

Gaetz’s book, Firebrand, went on presale last August and hit bookshelves and online stores in September, after last year’s financial disclosure deadline. The new amended disclosure claims the beleaguered Florida conservative earned exactly $25,000 from book sales last year, after giving 30 percent of his personal profits to his agent, Sergio Gor—a former staffer for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who also officiated and DJ’ed at Gaetz’s surprise wedding last weekend.

If Gaetz’s $25,000 claim and publishing terms are accurate, the disclosure indicates Firebrand didn’t exactly burn up the charts. His reported profits suggest the memoir brought in a total of about $59,500 between August and December, netting his contracted publisher, Post Hill Press, a little less than $15,000.



Hardcover copies were originally listed for $27—new ones now go for less than $10—and you can still pick up an ebook for $14.99. To match his disclosure, a $27 price tag would come out to about 2,200 units sold. But even at the low end of $10 a pop, Gaetz would have sold fewer than 6,000 copies of Firebrand across several months.

Kedric Payne, general counsel and senior director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, told The Daily Beast that he couldn’t remember when a member failed to report income from a book, but noted that Gaetz’s immediate correction would likely spare him repercussions.

“The law is clear that book royalty income must be disclosed. Indeed, it is difficult to think of a recent example when a lawmaker did not disclose such income,” Payne said. “In practice, it is not expected that the Ethics Committee will seek any penalties against a member who files an amendment under these circumstances.”

Payne added that “more facts” were needed to figure out whether the deal warranted those sorts of repercussions.


Rep. Matt Gaetz attends a protest in support of pop star Britney Spears.

Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Brett Kappel, an attorney who specializes in government compliance at Harmon Curran, echoed those points.

“Filing an incomplete financial disclosure report is a violation of both the Ethics in Government Act and the House rules,” Kappel said. “The fact that Rep. Gaetz quickly filed an amended report, however, likely means he will suffer no consequences.”

And Bryson Morgan, former investigative counsel to the Office of Congressional Ethics who now practices political compliance law at Caplin & Drysdale, pointed out that disclosure rules cover anticipated royalties as well.

“It appears Congressman Gaetz has failed to disclose his interests in the book and any income he received from the book as required by federal law,” Morgan said after reviewing Gaetz’s disclosures. “The House Committee on Ethics issued specific guidance to Members of Congress on how book deals—including agreements for royalties to be paid in the future—must be reported on the annual disclosure form, so Mr. Gaetz was on notice that disclosure was required.”

Bombardier Books—the Post Hill imprint that published the book—did not respond to The Daily Beast’s questions, neither did distributor Simon & Schuster. The House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics also declined to comment.



While Firebrand didn’t top bestseller lists, Gaetz’s promotional efforts got additional muscle from a number of MAGA associates, including Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity. (The Gaetz campaign in 2018 spent about $11,000 on Trump Jr.’s first book.) The self-described Florida Man also scored two coveted Twitter plugs from then-President Donald Trump, including for advance orders last August.

As The Daily Beast has reported, the Trump White House blocked Gaetz’s attempts at a preemptive pardon. The embattled congressman also apparently interfered in an parallel effort by his indicted friend Joel Greenberg, who had written Trump a confession letter which accused Gaetz of paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl—the most explosive allegation connected to the ongoing investigation. This May, Greenberg entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

The investigation has cast some Firebrand passages in a new light. In the book, structured as a series of insider “dispatches” from the MAGAverse, Gaetz goes into detail about his “active social life,” including sexual encounters as a “fun-loving politician” in Trump’s Washington.

“It’s risky to date in a town where there’s potentially a thin line between love and blackmail, or at least love and bad PR,” Gaetz wrote, adding, “I knew going in how many people had been brought down by sexual missteps in this town, so I set some rules to help me err on the safe(r) side.”

“In Washington, safe sex means in part: no dating lobbyists, no dating your staff members, and I should have added no dating reporters, but I didn’t at first,” he wrote. The three-term representative also deployed his well-worn canned line, “I’m a representative, not a monk,” which he has used since at least 2013, including in an April op-ed defending himself against the sex trafficking allegations.

Gaetz also wrote about a 2019 New Year’s Eve trip to Key West with two “best friends” who have been questioned in connection with the sex trafficking investigation. The passage includes a meditation on a condom wrapper with a picture of a bee on it, captioned “cover your stinger,” which Gaetz claimed to have obtained from the Key West airport and serves as an extended metaphor for romantic despair.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-gaetz-failed-properly-disclose-085709172.html

 

Oh sure Matt we believe you.,

Matt Gaetz 'expects' new indictments from DOJ -- but is wary of 'Deep State' plot against him

David Edwards
September 22, 2021



Real America's Voice/screen grab


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday predicted that the Department of Justice would exonerate him in a child trafficking case by indicting people who he claims were trying to extort money from his family.

Earlier this month, 62-year-old Stephen Alford was indicted for multiple charges relating to wire fraud. Gaetz claimed that Alford had attempted to extort money from his family with the promise of ending a child sex trafficking investigation into the congressman.

During an interview with Real America's Voice on Wednesday, Gaetz predicted that more indictments are coming.

"I'm glad you gave me the opportunity to tell the country that my family was being extorted on a pile of lies," Gaetz told host Steve Bannon. "A lot of folks thought that was far-fetched. Now the first indictment has dropped."

"I expect that there should be other indictments unless there are folks at the DOJ protecting people," he added.

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-indictments/

 

Wait.
Alford was indicted for wire fraud?
Wasn't that what Gaetz has been saying all along?
Huh. No wonder Alfords indictments weren't reported by the despicable press.

Agenda, you know.

 

Matt Gaetz proposes Trump 2024 ticket with Nicki Minaj after she threatens reporters on social media





Photos by Gage Skidmore and via Nicki Minaj on Facebook.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nicki-manij-vp-2024/

 

This just keeps getting weirder all the time. Now there is even an Israel connection.

'Very credible' allegations against Matt Gaetz were divulged to Dilbert cartoonist before they became public: report

John Wright
September 23, 2021



Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Photo: Gage Skidmore)


Three days before news broke of a child sex-abuse investigation involving Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams and an employee of the Israeli consulate began a text-message exchange concerning the FBI probe.

In a bizarre, largely overlooked aspect of the ongoing Gaetz investigation and scandal, Adams and Jake Novak, broadcast media director of the Consulate General of Israel in New York, had apparently become friends on social media, Politico reported Thursday.

"Scoop I can't report: Rep. Gaetz is the subject of a sex with minor…. I trust the source. Charges/accusations apparently 'very credible'," Novak wrote to Adams, adding "told ya" after news of the investigation broke, and decrying claims from Gaetz's father alleging that he and his son had become victims of an "extortion" plot.

Adams responded by repeatedly casting doubt on the allegations against Gaetz and said "the extortion counterclaim sounds credible. Has witnesses apparently."

Novak then suggested he was personally involved in an effort to get $25 million out of Gaetz's father, Don Gaetz, to help free Bob Levinson, an American hostage in Iran whom most intelligence officials believe is dead.

"The backstory is this is screwing up my efforts to free Bob Levinson," Novak wrote. "I've got a commando team leader friend of mine nervously waiting for wire transfers to clear."

Novak later told Adams that "the real documents do not extort. And we only asked for $25 million as an estimate at first. We came way down."

Last month, a federal grand jury indicted Stephen Alford on charges that he tried to defraud Gaetz's father. Alford, a Florida developer, allegedly told Don Gaetz that in return for financing the Levinson rescue effort, he would use his influence to ensure the congressman "receives a presidential pardon, thus alleviating all his legal issues."

"The allegation that a foreign official may be involved in a shakedown scheme of a U.S. congressman — a highly unusual development in its own right — could help provide a fuller picture of a scandal that has captivated the nation's capital but where many pieces are still unknown," Politico reported, adding that while the Israeli official's apparent involvement "doesn't speak to Gaetz' guilt or innocence," it is "concerning."

Ronald E. Neumann, a career former ambassador and president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, told the site: "It's certainly problematic, if it's true. Anytime you have criminal or potential criminal behavior, and somebody who's part of a foreign embassy or consulate, it's a problem."


https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-dilbert/

 

Has Matt been convicted of soliciting in prostitution yet? or aiding in the delinquency of a minor yet?...I only ask, because I haven't been following this issue much...

 

Twirl and pee.
Pee and twirl.
When its shown that the entire episode was not as they insisted, they just move onto the next issue and start all over.
Twirl and pee.
Pee and twirl.

 

Matt Gaetz's legal lineup suggests he's expecting a trial — possibly on 'grave' charges: report

John Wright
September 27, 2021



Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

Rep. Matt Gaetz's assembled lineup of high-profile, out-of-state defense attorneys suggests the Florida Republican is expecting a criminal trial to result from the ongoing FBI investigation into whether he sex-trafficked a minor, legal experts told the Daily Beast for a story published Monday.

The experts also said an apparent lull in the Gaetz investigation, which was first made public in March, doesn't indicate innocence or a lack of charges — as Gaetz would have people believe. Rather, the lull could suggest that prosecutors are considering "a wide range of charges" or that the allegations against him will be "extremely grave and complex."

"If you were looking for an indication of just how seriously Gaetz himself is taking the prospect of charges, look no further than the high-powered team of attorneys the beleaguered Florida man has brought on for his defense," the Daily Beast reported.

While the federal investigation is being handled in Orlando, Florida — Gaetz's home state — the congressman and his campaign have hired three high-powered attorneys from New York City. They include Marc Mukasey, a popular MAGA-world figure who has defended the Trump Organization in several high-profile disputes, as well as New York trial attorney Marc Fernich, who has represented the likes of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

"It looks like a scorched-earth approach," former assistant New York attorney general Tristan Snell told the Daily Beast. "These are all big out-of-town lawyers. If your goal is to resolve something, you typically hire the top criminal defense attorney in the district, someone who's a repeat customer there and has a good working relationship with that U.S. Attorney's office. But these attorneys can go down there, burn down the building, and not have to worry about going back in the next day."

"Based on hiring these attorneys, I think he could be taking an aggressive approach, to try to shred the credibility of the prosecution, perhaps turn the tables and put them on trial," Snell said, adding that Gaetz's instincts remind him of former president Donald Trump — "fighting back with hyperbolic allegations of extortion, a 'deep state' plot, and a politically motivated prosecution."

Barb McQuade, a former federal prosecutor who's now a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, agreed that Gaetz appears to be taking a "scorched-earth" approach.

"It may be effective in the court of public opinion, but rarely effective in a court of law," McQuade said.

According to the Daily Beast, Gaetz faces a range of possible allegations, including sex trafficking a minor, obstruction of justice, campaign finance violations and a sweeping political influence scheme.

Read the full story here.

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-criminal-charges-2655176056/

 

This would be funny if it wasn't so sick. Gaetz jumps in on supporting Tucker Carlson on "replacement theory" only to find out a shit load of Jewish people live in Florida and really don't like people pushing the same false propaganda that led to the Holocaust. They are really touchy about that.

Chris Hayes Rips Gaetz for Promoting Replacement Theory: ‘The Kind of Racism That Has Become So Core’ to GOP Base

 

Matt Gaetz's $100,000 donation to mysterious GOP group under scrutiny: report

Travis Gettys
September 20, 2021



Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made his largest-ever political contribution to a mysterious nonprofit organization on the day that Donald Trump's second impeachment trial began.

The Florida Republican gave $100,000 to "Right Direction America," a 501(c)4 "dark money" group set up by Trump ally Chris Christie to rally support during the former president's first impeachment trial, and a Gaetz campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast the organization supports Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her campaign for Arkansas governor.

"We support the mission of Right Direction America," the spokesperson said.

But there's no public record that RDA supports Sanders for governor, and the group hasn't been active at all since August 2020 and hasn't received donations from any other political groups besides Gaetz's.

RDA spent about $35,000 on Facebook ads between December 2019 and February 2020, but then gave $75,000 to a super PAC supporting losing GOP House candidate Matt Mowers in August 2020 and released some digital ads in February targeting Democratic candidates in some Senate races, although Christie left the group on Dec. 31.

The organization hasn't been mentioned in news reports since the 2020 impeachment trial, and there's no record of any public activity for RDA since then besides renewing its incorporation status this April in Virginia, and its website consists of nothing but an email signup and cut-and-pasted privacy policy.

"When you see a webpage like that, that has nothing — no press clips, no projects, no events, no contact information, no address, nothing to identify it as a group with an office where people go to work, or produce actual work — the first question is what do they exist to do?" said Robert Maguire, director of research and nonprofit law expert at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "How are they validating their nonprofit status?"



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