No worries here. If Gaetz gets one of the girls pregnant, the state will force her to carry the rape-fetus. Then after giving birth they will call her a welfare queen. TWO opportunities for them to feel superior!
Mark Lombardo, who is Gaetz’s opponent in the Republican primary, is accusing Gaetz of being the FBI informant.
“More Trumpier than thou”.
Is it plausible? i.e. was he that close with the TFG that he might have been shown the sekrit papurs (his spelling, not mine)?
Is it plausible that the DoJ would base a search warrant of Mar a Lago on a the alleged claims of Republican congressman under investigation for, well, anything? Not to me. While I would like to believe the FBI would take all evidence submitted to them seriously, I would also think they would be extra-skeptical of any evidence that supports their investigations. One reason these investigations take so long.
I also don’t trust claims made in a political attack ad.
It is sort of interesting to watch the leopards eat each others faces.
Not a terribly nutritious diet… but plenty of fun for onlookers.
See, my thoughts would be that they were using his current situation as leverage. That would be the one way I could see him becoming an informant, and a reason they would believe they could trust him (knowing that, if he lied, they’d use their leverage against him).
Gaetz won his primary for his Florida House district today, and it wasn’t even close. He’s all but certain to win the general in this strongly Republican district.
I demand a recount!
That’s surprising considering how much of his constituency is too young to vote.
CNN article, with an amazingly evocative image of Gaetz that once again calls to mind his similiarity to a member of a comic animated duo.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/17/politics/matt-gaetz-trump-pardon-justice-department/index.html
John McEntee, who served as director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump Administration, told the committee that Gaetz spoke with him about his process for seeking a pardon relating to the DOJ’s investigation in a short meeting. McEntee told the committee he could not remember if his brief meeting with Gaetz was before or after the attack on the Capitol.
Please note, no new information on the investigation itself, but that if true Gaetz obviously felt himself at some risk. And the fact that he and others requested blanket pardons prior to Trump leaving office is obviously not news. But interesting it came up during the 1/6 investigation.
Of course their standard handwave here, not just Gaetz but any GOP minion found to be begging for a pardon, is that they were simply at risk of being persecuted by those mean old Democrats using criminal prosecution as a tool for political payback, so of course they wanted a pardon to insulate themselves from such left-wing evil.
In the “read somewhere but now can’t find it so - grain of salt and all that”, I read that the ongoing delays in indicting Gaetz are due to the Feds finding more and more things to indict him on, including fraud and embezzlement of COVID-related funds as well as the sex trafficking thing. As such, if and when indictments drop, they are likely to drop in a sizable heap.
Closest story I can find is this from the Daily Beast from last month:
And hopefully from a significant height. Is criming addictive to some people, or is it like quicksand?
I think it’s an “in for a penny, in for a pound” situation.
Once you’re a criminal, you’ve crossed a line you can’t go back over. The idea that “if I do this, I’m now a criminal” is no longer a concern, which makes it easier to do more.
Plus, once you commit one and get away with it, the fear of getting caught decreases and your confidence that you can get away the next one increases.
I imagine that many criminals who get caught and prosecuted have committed so many more crimes that nobody will ever know about.
It helps if you think the laws don’t apply to oh-so-important you.
Or that your pal in the Oval Office has your back.
Sounds like he’s not gonna face charges. Not because he’s innocent, but because the key witnesses are liars who will get torn down in front of a jury.
Well that’s fucked up.