# Matt Gaetz being investigated for sex with 17 year old girl (DOJ declines to charge 2023-02-15) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 30, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052 "2021-03-30T22:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/364 "2021-04-18T14:48:06Z")
It goes without saying, that if the then 17 year old could prove she was with him, she’d be sitting on a gold mine, and blackmail negotiations wouldn’t include the old man wearing a wire for sure. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/365 "2021-04-18T20:07:00Z")
That sounds like you think the 17 year old is a scheming manipulator, not a kid in over her head. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/366 "2021-04-18T20:20:54Z")
I didn’t say that. I was laying out a plausible blackmailing scenario, as opposed to the one Gaetz was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/367 "2021-04-20T13:24:06Z")
I don’t know if this was reported upthread in all the whataboutism nonsense. Matt Gaetz’ ex-girlfriend is afraid that she may be charged with obstruction of justice after a possibly taped phone call with the seventeen year-old in question. > **[Ex-girlfriend of Matt Gaetz reportedly panicked over possible taped phone calls](https://www.salon.com/2021/04/17/ex-girlfriend-of-matt-gaetz-reportedly-panicked-over-possible-taped-phone-calls_partner/)** > > Report: Embattled Florida congressman's ex-girlfriend fears she was recorded, may be under investigation ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/368 "2021-04-20T14:53:00Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I don’t know if this was reported upthread in all the whataboutism nonsense. Matt Gaetz’ ex-girlfriend is afraid that she may be charged with obstruction of justice after a possibly taped phone call with the seventeen year-old in question. So the alleged victim called _her_? And she 1) didn’t find this odd, and 2) might have said something that, measured against other things she’s said, could be considered evidence of obstruction of justice? This case is weird. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/369 "2021-04-20T17:49:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > This case is weird. _Everything_ around Matt Gaetz is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/370 "2021-04-21T16:58:09Z")
His physiognomy looks like the reflection in a funhouse mirror. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/371 "2021-04-21T17:51:16Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > His physiognomy looks like the reflection in a funhouse mirror. - On top of that, his face is weird looking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/372 "2021-04-21T17:54:11Z")
Yeah, but Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old first cousin when he was 27, so Gaetz could be weirder. At least, if he lived 200 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/373 "2021-04-21T17:58:15Z")
I’m pretty sure his mouth was installed upside-down. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/YZFqzl4.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/DvRM4oA) ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/374 "2021-04-21T19:01:00Z")
Thanks for that photo. Too bad I just ate lunch; a little of it just came back up in my mouth. Urgh. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/375 "2021-04-21T19:53:54Z")
My personal nickname for Gaetz has been “Evil Donny Osmond”. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/376 "2021-04-21T19:59:16Z")
Someone pointed out that he looks like a real-life version of Butt-Head from _Beavis and Butt-Head_ and now I can’t unsee it. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/377 "2021-04-21T20:15:39Z")
Yeah! People are always remarking on the Butthead resemblance, but I think he’s more a cross between Butthead and Donny Osmond. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/378 "2021-04-21T20:46:26Z")
With Jim Jordan: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErgBR45WMAAoPTr?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErgBR45WMAAoPTr?format=jpg&name=large) As the Lincoln project said, “This reboot sucks.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/379 "2021-04-21T22:21:58Z")
In that photo, Jordan resembles Steve Martin as [Ruprecht](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SKDX-qJaJ08/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLD9vGvP5W9HjNjWczymq7VUev6c4w) in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels._ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/380 "2021-04-22T00:17:09Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Butthead and Donny Osmond. I shall dub thee “Buttmond”. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/381 "2021-04-22T00:21:38Z")
“Huh-huh, huh-huh… _Yeah!_” ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/382 "2021-04-22T15:44:21Z")
Check the forks for corks. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/383 "2021-04-22T16:12:50Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > In that photo, Jordan resembles Steve Martin as [Ruprecht](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SKDX-qJaJ08/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLD9vGvP5W9HjNjWczymq7VUev6c4w) in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels._ “May I take your trident, sir?” LOVE that scene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052.md?page=20)