Matt Gaetz Not Charged Despite Crime ‘Evidence’

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz has not been having his finest political yr regardless of his orangey-white nationalist messiah kicking, screaming, mendacity and bigot whispering his means again into the White Home in November. Gaetz resigned from Congress after Donald Trump nominated him to function legal professional basic, however that every one fell aside because of the lingering allegations that he paid quite a few ladies for intercourse, together with an underaged girl who was solely 17. Effectively, the Justice Division might have closed the federal investigation into his intercourse trafficking allegations in February of final yr, however the Home Ethics Committee reported that it discovered proof that Gaetz is responsible of almost every part he was accused of.

The investigators discovered he paid for intercourse or medication on not less than 20 events whereas serving as a federal legislator, and that, in 2017, he paid to have intercourse with the aforementioned teenager. Moreover, the committee reported that most of the transactions have been facilitated by Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County tax collector who’s serving an 11-year jail sentence and cooperated with federal investigators.

“The Committee decided there’s substantial proof that Consultant Gaetz violated Home Guidelines and different requirements of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible presents, particular favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the committee wrote in its report, in keeping with CNN.

So, in keeping with the investigating panelists, Gaetz is a drug abuser, statutory rapist and a participant in unlawful prostitution, which could lead one to consider that, just like the president-elect, he relied on his white male privilege to evade accountability whereas nonetheless claiming his occasion is the occasion of regulation and order and household values.

From CNN:

The panel investigated transactions Gaetz personally made, typically utilizing PayPal or Venmo, to greater than a dozen ladies throughout his time in Congress, in keeping with the report. Investigators additionally centered on a 2018 journey to the Bahamas – which they stated “violated the Home present rule” – throughout which he “engaged in sexual exercise” with a number of ladies, together with one who described the journey itself as “the fee” for intercourse on the journey. On the identical journey, he additionally took ecstasy, one girl on the journey instructed the committee.

The committee discovered that the sexual encounters have been typically organized by Greenberg by means of a web site, SeekingArrangement.com. “Mr. Greenberg instructed the Committee that Consultant Gaetz was conscious that the ladies that they had intercourse with and paid had met Mr. Greenberg by means of the ‘sugar relationship’ web site,” the panel wrote.

Congressional investigators discovered that Gaetz made fee to ladies utilizing a number of platforms, together with PayPal, Venmo and CashApp. The committee listed funds Gaetz made to 12 ladies, together with to his former girlfriend, in addition to Greenberg.

The committee wrote that Gaetz didn’t seem to barter particular fee quantities for intercourse with the ladies he paid. “Most of the ladies interviewed by the Committee have been clear that there was a basic expectation of intercourse,” investigators wrote.

“One girl who was paid greater than $5,000 by Consultant Gaetz between 2018 and 2019 instructed the Committee that ‘99 p.c of the time that (Consultant Gaetz and I) have been hanging out, there was intercourse concerned,’” the panel stated.

The Home of Representatives Committee on Ethics workplace within the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill on December 18, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Chip Somodevilla / Getty

Regardless of the entire proof that the committee discovered that factors to Gaetz being each little bit of the degenerate and sexual deviant he was accused of being, panelists reported that they discovered no proof that he violated any federal intercourse trafficking legal guidelines, regardless that he reportedly did transport prostitutes throughout state strains.

“Though Consultant Gaetz did trigger the transportation of girls throughout state strains for functions of business intercourse, the Committee didn’t discover proof that any of these ladies have been underneath 18 on the time of journey, nor did the Committee discover adequate proof to conclude that the industrial intercourse acts have been induced by pressure, fraud, or coercion,” the committee wrote.

In fact, Gaetz remains to be denying all of it, and like strongest males who’re attempting to clarify away intercourse abuse allegations, his denial makes him out to easily be some youthful playboy having enjoyable throughout his “single days.”

“In my single days, I typically despatched funds to ladies I dated – even some I by no means dated however who requested. I dated a number of of those ladies for years,” Gaetz stated. “It’s embarrassing, although not prison, that I in all probability partied, womanized, drank and smoked greater than I ought to have earlier in life. I stay a special life now.” (For the report, Gaetz would have been round 35 in 2017, when he was accused of paying a teen for intercourse — however, positive, let’s go along with the “I used to be younger and dumb” argument combined with a touch of “boys will probably be boys.”)

Anyway, whereas white privilege did possible assist Gaetz escape federal costs, it didn’t cease the Home Ethics Committee report from being made public. Really, in keeping with CNN, the committee initially voted in opposition to publishing the report, however earlier this month, it reversed that call and secretly voted to publish it to the dismay of panel Chairman Michael Visitor, a Mississippi Republican.

“The choice to publish a report after his resignation breaks from the Committee’s long-standing apply, opens the Committee to undue criticism, and will probably be seen by some as an try and weaponize the Committee’s course of,” Visitor stated.

Yeah — and declining to publish these findings may be “seen by some” as extra proof that white male authorities officers get safety civilians don’t get it doesn’t matter what they’ve completed.

It ought to be famous that whereas the committee reported that the entire ladies interviewed stated they weren’t compelled or coerced into having intercourse, it doesn’t imply no energy dynamics have been at play.

Extra from CNN:

The panel wrote that a number of ladies instructed the committee they’d not voluntarily take part within the investigation, and a few have been “clear at first contact that they feared retaliation or have been unwilling to voluntarily relive their interactions with Consultant Gaetz.”

“Whereas all the ladies that the Committee interviewed said their sexual exercise with Consultant Gaetz was consensual, not less than one girl felt that using medication on the events and occasions they attended might have ‘impair(ed their) potential to actually know what was happening or totally consent,’” the panel wrote. “One girl stated, ‘I give it some thought on a regular basis … . I nonetheless see him once I activate the television and there’s nothing anybody can do. It’s irritating to know I lived a actuality that he denies.’”

Gotta love these MAGA household values, amirite?

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