UPDATE: Mediaite has a story suggesting that new details of Gaetz screwing around with a 17-year-old girl in a threesome are what caused him to withdraw. Note that the age of consent in Florida is 18. Next time, check her ID, Matt. 🙄
"Reid reported on how the story unfolded on Inside Politics, telling anchor Dana Bash that Gaetz announced his withdrawal just before she was about to go on air to report on the story, and that she and CNN Capitol Hill reporter Sarah Ferris had just finalized their reporting “that the Ethics Committee had been informed of a second sexual encounter between Gaetz and the woman, who was just 17 years old at the time.”
According to Reid, this woman “had said the same thing consistently in a civil deposition,” and she and Ferris reached out to Gaetz’s team shepherding him through the nomination process to give them “the opportunity to weigh in.”
“They asked us to give them an hour. We did,” said Reid, explaining that they had told Gaetz’s team they would go live at 12:30 pm, “and about a moment before I was supposed to come on air and share the new reporting…we didn’t get a statement from Gaetz, and instead we got the statement saying that he was withdrawing as the attorney general pick.”
Reid summarized what the new reporting was that “the woman who is at the center of these allegations that he had sex with a minor, has told the ethics committee that when she was just 17, she had not one but two sexual encounters with Gaetz at a party in Florida. And that that sexual second encounter involved an adult woman.”
I am by no means a “trust the plan” type, but I am open to the idea that this was a ploy on the part of Trump to send up a trial balloon nomination to get wet noodle GOPers to self-identify. Perhaps this will pave the way for a Ken Paxton AG, or the Missouri fellow. I have to believe that Trump and his people learned something over the last 8 years that was filled with deception, lawfare, and sabotage.
I hope you are right, Arthur. I really do. But I don't see Bailey or Paxton as being objectionable to the senate. As far as I know, neither of them has any history of drug use or sexual shenanigans like Gaetz.
Let's hope that Trump picks a real killer for AG next and gets him through the senate fast. Whoever it will be must hit the ground running in January, there is no time whatsoever to lose.
Just like that, the first act of John Thune as the leader of the Senate, grab the hands of the FBI and the Democrat party, and stomp on the face of Trump, MAGA and the mandate the Amercan people gave the Republican party.
Just to put this in perspective, the Biden FBI spent a couple years investigating this and found none of the parties credible. Ethics reports are allowed to consider allegations.
Gaetz says a lot of the right crap but he's always struck me with the used car salesman schtick. Bondi seems like a solid alternative.
Yes, he is a fool, but she was probably 17 and six months and I don’t know why these people think that she can’t make a good decision for herself, but in a few months she will.
She also went with him second time if it was so bad, she would’ve avoided him like the plague not gone with him a second time
My high IQ wife who has a crazy inbuilt ability to sense who people really are inside was always super creeped out by Gaetz. It could also be 5d chess by the orange man to deflect from….?
I have no idea what the deal is with Gaetz. He sounds like some kind of swinger or something, but such behavior is par for the course in the imperial capital. As far as 5D chess goes, I have no idea. If so, the point of it eludes me.
Oh, and the whole story of everything better come out so that people can stop saying we are conspiracy theorist! I would really love for people in my own family to see that I was right about the vaccine, about COV,ID not even being dangerous, that there is a cabal in charge of our government, Israel owns most of Congress, etc., etc.
Matt & his father were being blackmailed a few years ago & worked with the FBI to get that person arrested.. it was all related to this sex with underage girl.
He was 21 & she was 17 …
I think the RINOs screwed him over
They should release ALL the reports on ALL the Senators
Maybe he should explain 70's style. " Dear Penthouse forum, I never expected this experience to happen to me. I'm just a lowly congressman from the Florida panhandle. But tonight these two hot babes.........."
Well known Conspiracy guy Stew Peters tweeted out to Gaetz: Just come out and admit that Howard Lutnick and the rest of the jews controlling Trump shut down your nomination bc you opposed the “anti-semitism hate speech” law.
I don't pay attention to Stew Peters, he has always come across as a bit of a nut to me. But, given Gaetz reputation for sex shenanigans and what not, I find it hard to believe that the reason he was forced to withdraw was because of that law. Gaetz seems to have a lot of skeletons in his closet that have come back to haunt him.
However, I will also point out again that Gaetz' skeletons are pretty much par for the course for DC, including the scumbags in the senate. They are all corrupt and depraved in one way or another, so their hypocrisy on his nomination rings hollow to me. 🙄
Gaetz was an idiot for thinking with his dick given the fact he wasn’t playing in the AIPAC playground. His had to have known they were going to come for him
Alright Ill do it Ill be AG, I will use my seven years of lawfare waged against me by NYS, Livingston & Wyoming counties town of Perry, Arcade, & Covington. The nonsense from city of Lackawanna other activist & gurus that I have met on this journey. It will be my honor and privilege to dismantle the deep state and scatter the shards of the agents & agencies to the winds. I am the right woman for the job, when do I start?
Well, well, well. Either they really do have dirt on Gaetz or his family that he doesn't want released, or Trump just nominated him to throw tub to the whale, or red meat to his base, and then will shrug his shoulders and tell you how very very sad he is AG Gaetz never became real thing.
Oy. I never did get the attraction so many older men have for high school girls after I reached the ripe old age of 20 at the latest. It’s never anything but trouble for everyone involved.
UPDATE: Mediaite has a story suggesting that new details of Gaetz screwing around with a 17-year-old girl in a threesome are what caused him to withdraw. Note that the age of consent in Florida is 18. Next time, check her ID, Matt. 🙄
https://www.mediaite.com/news/gaetz-dropped-out-after-cnn-inquiry-about-new-allegation-involving-threesome-with-17-year-old/
Here is the story from Mediaite:
"Reid reported on how the story unfolded on Inside Politics, telling anchor Dana Bash that Gaetz announced his withdrawal just before she was about to go on air to report on the story, and that she and CNN Capitol Hill reporter Sarah Ferris had just finalized their reporting “that the Ethics Committee had been informed of a second sexual encounter between Gaetz and the woman, who was just 17 years old at the time.”
According to Reid, this woman “had said the same thing consistently in a civil deposition,” and she and Ferris reached out to Gaetz’s team shepherding him through the nomination process to give them “the opportunity to weigh in.”
“They asked us to give them an hour. We did,” said Reid, explaining that they had told Gaetz’s team they would go live at 12:30 pm, “and about a moment before I was supposed to come on air and share the new reporting…we didn’t get a statement from Gaetz, and instead we got the statement saying that he was withdrawing as the attorney general pick.”
Reid summarized what the new reporting was that “the woman who is at the center of these allegations that he had sex with a minor, has told the ethics committee that when she was just 17, she had not one but two sexual encounters with Gaetz at a party in Florida. And that that sexual second encounter involved an adult woman.”
UPDATE 2: IT'S PAM BONDI AS GAETZ REPLACEMENT!
https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/trump-picks-former-florida-ag-to-replace-matt-gaetz/
I am by no means a “trust the plan” type, but I am open to the idea that this was a ploy on the part of Trump to send up a trial balloon nomination to get wet noodle GOPers to self-identify. Perhaps this will pave the way for a Ken Paxton AG, or the Missouri fellow. I have to believe that Trump and his people learned something over the last 8 years that was filled with deception, lawfare, and sabotage.
I hope you are right, Arthur. I really do. But I don't see Bailey or Paxton as being objectionable to the senate. As far as I know, neither of them has any history of drug use or sexual shenanigans like Gaetz.
Let's hope that Trump picks a real killer for AG next and gets him through the senate fast. Whoever it will be must hit the ground running in January, there is no time whatsoever to lose.
Bailey is actually a fairly good AG in Missouri, but I see he didn’t get the job.
Yes, Bondi got it. Interesting choice. I'm good with it as long as she proves vicious with the Deep State scum.
Just like that, the first act of John Thune as the leader of the Senate, grab the hands of the FBI and the Democrat party, and stomp on the face of Trump, MAGA and the mandate the Amercan people gave the Republican party.
Yes, not a surprise is it? The swamp protects its own, always.
I had my hopes up. They can all eat ashes.
See the update I just posted in the story and pinned as a comment. Sex scandal brought him down. Fool didn't check her ID. 🙄
Just to put this in perspective, the Biden FBI spent a couple years investigating this and found none of the parties credible. Ethics reports are allowed to consider allegations.
Gaetz says a lot of the right crap but he's always struck me with the used car salesman schtick. Bondi seems like a solid alternative.
Yes, he is a fool, but she was probably 17 and six months and I don’t know why these people think that she can’t make a good decision for herself, but in a few months she will.
She also went with him second time if it was so bad, she would’ve avoided him like the plague not gone with him a second time
My high IQ wife who has a crazy inbuilt ability to sense who people really are inside was always super creeped out by Gaetz. It could also be 5d chess by the orange man to deflect from….?
I have no idea what the deal is with Gaetz. He sounds like some kind of swinger or something, but such behavior is par for the course in the imperial capital. As far as 5D chess goes, I have no idea. If so, the point of it eludes me.
Great analysis. I thought Gaetz was already cleared? Wasn’t this going on 2 years ago?
Yes
My only consolation is that the vast majority of the blob will be cast into the Lake of Fire on Judgement Day.
Matt Gaetz was good, however, Pam Bondi is better...and for every move there is a reason.
As long as she's a killer who will stop at nothing to destroy the Deep State scum, I'm fine with it. 👍🏻
Oh, and the whole story of everything better come out so that people can stop saying we are conspiracy theorist! I would really love for people in my own family to see that I was right about the vaccine, about COV,ID not even being dangerous, that there is a cabal in charge of our government, Israel owns most of Congress, etc., etc.
Fauci and the rest better get their comeuppance!!!
Matt & his father were being blackmailed a few years ago & worked with the FBI to get that person arrested.. it was all related to this sex with underage girl.
He was 21 & she was 17 …
I think the RINOs screwed him over
They should release ALL the reports on ALL the Senators
Maybe he should explain 70's style. " Dear Penthouse forum, I never expected this experience to happen to me. I'm just a lowly congressman from the Florida panhandle. But tonight these two hot babes.........."
Recess appointments for everyone he can, I say.
So why not do a recess appointment for Gaetz?
Well known Conspiracy guy Stew Peters tweeted out to Gaetz: Just come out and admit that Howard Lutnick and the rest of the jews controlling Trump shut down your nomination bc you opposed the “anti-semitism hate speech” law.
I don't pay attention to Stew Peters, he has always come across as a bit of a nut to me. But, given Gaetz reputation for sex shenanigans and what not, I find it hard to believe that the reason he was forced to withdraw was because of that law. Gaetz seems to have a lot of skeletons in his closet that have come back to haunt him.
However, I will also point out again that Gaetz' skeletons are pretty much par for the course for DC, including the scumbags in the senate. They are all corrupt and depraved in one way or another, so their hypocrisy on his nomination rings hollow to me. 🙄
Gaetz was an idiot for thinking with his dick given the fact he wasn’t playing in the AIPAC playground. His had to have known they were going to come for him
Alright Ill do it Ill be AG, I will use my seven years of lawfare waged against me by NYS, Livingston & Wyoming counties town of Perry, Arcade, & Covington. The nonsense from city of Lackawanna other activist & gurus that I have met on this journey. It will be my honor and privilege to dismantle the deep state and scatter the shards of the agents & agencies to the winds. I am the right woman for the job, when do I start?
Well, well, well. Either they really do have dirt on Gaetz or his family that he doesn't want released, or Trump just nominated him to throw tub to the whale, or red meat to his base, and then will shrug his shoulders and tell you how very very sad he is AG Gaetz never became real thing.
Or I'm missing something.
Did you see the update I just posted? 17 year old girl in a threesome. Age of consent is 18 in Florida. Fool didn't ask her for an ID. 🙄
Oy. I never did get the attraction so many older men have for high school girls after I reached the ripe old age of 20 at the latest. It’s never anything but trouble for everyone involved.