# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/161 "2021-04-03T18:12:37Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Anyone else think this sounds like a Carl Hiaasen novel? When are Skink and Garcia going to show up? If we’re going full Florida novel here, I’d be rooting for Serge Storms to show up and take care of things. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/162 "2021-04-03T18:48:31Z")
Coleman still wouldn’t get laid. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/163 "2021-04-03T19:06:06Z")
Here’s an age-of-consent page that may be useful for the statutory rape/abuse of a minor aspect of this. (I haven’t vetted this page.) [https://www.ageofconsent.net/states/florida](https://www.ageofconsent.net/states/florida) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/164 "2021-04-03T19:08:50Z")
That’s a given! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/165 "2021-04-04T01:10:29Z")
The thing I find most amusing about the “extortion” angle is that the two businessmen who were trying to scam “Daddy” Dan Gaetz wanted the money because they were being scammed by an intelligence operative who had convinced them Levinson was alive. And that intelligence operative was probably being scammed by a source inside Iran, who in turn was being scammed by someone in the Iranian government. It’s scams all the way down, a Russian nesting doll of scams. It’s so Republican. It’s also funny to listen to Gaetz’s outrage after he spent years defending Trump when he engaged in implicit extortion time and again. NO QUID PRO QUO, Butthead! ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/166 "2021-04-04T01:12:33Z")
Circling the drain. > **[Matt Gaetz's communications director resigns as congressman faces allegations...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luke-ball-matt-gaetz-communications-director-resigns-allegations-sex-trafficking-minor/)** > > Luke Ball's resignation came in the wake of scathing reports suggesting an ongoing investigation into Gaetz's possible sexual involvement with a 17-year-old girl. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/167 "2021-04-04T01:31:54Z")
I would prefer this headline; **Gaetz has no Ball** ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/168 "2021-04-04T16:21:41Z")
How about **Ball drops for Easter, not New Year’s Eve** And see: > **[What it would take for the GOP to dump Gaetz | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/opinions/matt-gaetz-political-scandals-gop-zelizer/index.html)** > > Julian Zelizer writes, "This scandal has developed at a breakneck speed. But will his career come to an end? And will the GOP take a hit as a result?" ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/169 "2021-04-04T16:54:54Z")
You Nears Eve: Ball drops Gaetz. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/170 "2021-04-04T17:02:57Z")
I wonder if his girlfriend woke up this morning and walked around the yard collecting Easter eggs. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/172 "2021-04-04T20:56:57Z")
If we were living in a _Starship Troopers_ universe, this child has already earned her full citizenship rights. Anyone disagree? [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51095725700_c0fe0fa61a_b.jpg "DcOxIb8VQAAfkxr") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51095725700/) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/173 "2021-04-04T21:22:25Z")
? Didn’t he also recently get a photo op with three girls at some cafeteria table? Or was that way in the past? So is he doing a “Hey I Ain’t Skeevy School Tour” or something? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/174 "2021-04-04T22:07:37Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Didn’t he also recently get a photo op with three girls at some cafeteria table? Or was that way in the past? If it’s this one, it was a few years ago: > ---
**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 4, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/175 "2021-04-04T22:07:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > this child has already earned her full citizenship rights For as long as Shoal River Middle School stands, they will tell of this day 😁 > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > If it’s this one That’s the one I knew. Though searching he seems to have a few such lunch room pics, not all just with the girls. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/176 "2021-04-05T00:18:03Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Didn’t he also recently get a photo op with three girls at some cafeteria table? Or was that way in the past? What am I, chopped liver? 😉 > [@Matt Gaetz being investigated for sex with 17 year old girl (DOJ declines to charge 2023-02-15)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl/939052/147): > > Not seeing it in this thread, thank God, but can I just come in here and complain about the phrase ‘underaged prostitutes’ which I keep seeing in press reports: Matt Gaetz was not consorting with underaged prostitutes. He was raping teenagers. Allegedly, but I’ve been on this planet long enough to know the difference between smoke and fire. There are just moments which occur that shift the paradigm and brings context to a lot of clues\* which were out there but no one really wanted to put toget… ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/177 "2021-04-05T21:29:40Z")
Gaetz sent out his “military advisor” to refute the charges against him. The “military advisor” admitted that he hasn’t spoken to Gaetz in months, that he has no information as to whether Gaetz is guilty or not, and preferred trying to explain how he wasn’t involved in Gaetz’s activities. > **[Gaetz Military Adviser Comes to His Defense—Armed With No Facts](https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-military-adviser-nathan-nelson-comes-to-his-defense-armed-with-no-facts)** > > Air Force veteran Nathan Nelson says rumors that he quit Gaetz’s team because of shenanigans aren’t true, but sparked a visit from the FBI. ---
**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 6, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/178 "2021-04-06T03:38:19Z")
What a nothingburger. And that’s the first time I ever heard of a Congressman having a military advisor; maybe that’s a thing (at least among the Chickenhawk wing of the GOP). ---
**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 6, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/179 "2021-04-06T03:50:15Z")
“[Matt Gaetz never took COVID-19 seriously because she was a little too old for him.](https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1379231378336837632?s=20)” – Stephen Colbert ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/180 "2021-04-06T06:45:30Z")
If Matt Gaetz is ousted from Congress, he can always try a career as a televangelist. His hair and morals make him a natural. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/181 "2021-04-06T07:28:47Z")
Assuming the photo in that tweet is real and not a fake, I would adopt that young lady in a heartbeat. Of course, it’s clearly not necessary, as it is evident that she is already being raised right. [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=8) [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=10)