We guess Gaetz-Gate isn’t over in any case??
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz appeared to be in critical scorching water a number of months in the past because of accusations of drug-fueled events with younger women — and apparently funds below his precise identify on Venmo! Seeing as one lady he introduced throughout state strains was solely 17 years previous, there was even discuss of intercourse trafficking expenses. And his pal DID go to jail over all this. You can examine that madness HERE.
But then all of it sort of… fizzled. Gaetz adopted his hero Donald Trump‘s lead and denied everything, calling it a political witch hunt. The heat died down, and he got married. Because he’s a Republican, nobody in his occasion held him to account. And that was that.
But now he’s not getting the identical stage of wagon-circling. In case you don’t observe a lot political information, Gaetz led the cost to oust Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Now the place is technically vacant, a chaotic precedent as Congress makes an attempt to avert a authorities shutdown. And loads of Republicans are livid — some as a result of they really preferred McCarthy, others just because they don’t just like the chaos being sowed in their very own ranks.
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One such GOP member is Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. And he’s hitting again at Gaetz utilizing essentially the most weak second in his political profession — that intercourse scandal. In a wild interview with CNN, Mullin reminded everybody of Gaetz’s accusations — and implied Republicans assumed it was true based mostly on what he informed them!
“This is a guy the media didn’t give the time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. There’s a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him — because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor that all of us had walked away, of the girls he had slept with.”
Yowza. This isn’t really even the primary time we’ve heard he did this. But Mullin stated extra about his colleague:
“He bragged about how he would crush E.D. medicine and chase it with energy drinks so he could go all night. This is obviously before he got married.”
So stylish…
A Republican senator simply referred to as out Matt Gaetz for allegedly sleeping with a minor and says he would brag about “crushing erectile dysfunction medicine and chase it with energy drinks so he could go all night.” (@acyn) pic.twitter.com/xeq7PtGrLH
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 5, 2023
In an announcement to CNN, Gaetz defended himself, saying:
“I don’t think Markwayne Mullin and I have said 20 words to each other on the House floor. This is a lie from someone who doesn’t know me and who is coping with the death of the political career of his friend Kevin. Thoughts and prayers.”
Do it’s important to say 20 phrases to somebody for them to listen to you overtly bragging about your sexual conquests, be they authorized or not?
Anyway, Mullin isn’t the one Republican talking out in opposition to Gaetz’s character. Mike Pence‘s chief of workers Marc Short stated on Wednesday he figured Gaetz got here to Washington “for the teenage interns on Capitol Hill” quite than to be a “fiscal crusader.” Damn.
This man has one hell of a rep for Rep. Will it matter in the long run? This is the occasion of Trump and Santos. The solely crime you possibly can actually commit, apparently, is popping by yourself occasion. Just ask Madison Cawthorn.
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