Some new, profoundly nauseating details have emerged in the Matt Gaetz sex trafficking saga. So if you’ve literally just had your breakfast, you may want to give yourself a little bit of a pause before diving into this new development.
Earlier this week, ABC news announced that the House Ethics Committee had obtained text messages between Gaetz and one of the women involved, though Gaetz’s people insisted that he had no idea who she was.
The Daily Beast, however, has obtained some evidence proving that this was a big ol’ lie, just like practically everything else that comes out of Matt Gaetz’s mouth.
Via The Daily Beast:
The Daily Beast can now report that this woman told prosecutors in 2021 that she had sex with Gaetz at a drug-fueled party that she was paid to attend, according to the woman’s attorney.
This attorney told The Daily Beast on Thursday that the woman, in fact, received payments in connection with multiple sex parties with people in Gaetz’s circle. Her lawyer said that, in response to a subpoena, she testified about her experiences to the U.S. Attorneys investigating Gaetz. And she turned over text messages, photos, and other evidence to the Justice Department as part of its child sex trafficking inquiry into the Florida congressman, the lawyer said.
The Daily Beast has obtained some of those messages and photos, which match the documents described by ABC News.
Not. Enough. Money. In. The. World.
Venmo transactions show the woman receiving several payments from Gaetz’s ex-bestie/wingman, Joel Greenberg — who is currently incarcerated for child sex trafficking, stalking, identity fraud and more — totalling around $2500. She also has text messages from Gaetz in which he asked her to come to the Florida Keys with him and his friends — “2 guys, 4 girls. A very high-quality adventurous group.”
That is 100 percent code for “these people are into drug-fueled orgies and we’re all gonna bone.” That’s not a normal thing that normal people say about their friends, even if their friends are super into skydiving and rock climbing.
If all of that isn’t convincing enough, The Daily Beast also obtained a picture of Gaetz with the woman.
Perhaps even more damning, given his constituency, he was wearing a T-shirt in the picture featuring a quote from former Planned Parenthood vice president Mary Lasker — “If you think research is expensive … try disease.”
I think we can probably assume he didn’t know that and thought it was some kind of statement in favor of greedy pharmaceutical companies that claim they have to charge Americans exorbitant amounts of money for medicine in order to fund the “research and development” that our taxes already pay for.
While prosecutors decided to just let this one go a while back, the House Ethics Committee has recently reopened its own probe (ew, probe) into Gaetz’s sex-trafficking activities and has been in touch with several witnesses including this woman’s attorney as well as the 17-year-old that he and Greenberg allegedly paid for sex.
Surely there will be lots of consequences for Gaetz in the very near future!
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Speaking of which
"Lawyers Decline to Question Fani Willis Any Further in Hearing"
This headline should read "INCOMPETENT LAWYER SHILLS FOR TRUMP, WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW OTHER PEOPLES' BEHAVIORS MIGHT DIFFER WITH MONEY IN A RACIST SEXIST COUNTRY SINCE THEY THINK THE WAY THEY BEHAVE IN TRUMPWORLD IS THE WAY EVERYBODY BEHAVES, DECLINE TO CONTINUE QUESTIONING D.A. WILLIIS BECAUSE SHE WAS WHIPPING THEIR BEHINDS IN PUBLIC AND NOW THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS HOW INCOMPETENT THEY ARE NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY BELIEVE BLACK PEOPLE ALSO DO NOT AND SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY MONEY BECAUSE THAT IS A CORE BELIEF IN TRUMPWORLD AND ALSO THEY MAY BE FACING DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS IN FRONT OF THEIR BARS THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY PRESENTED LIES AS EVIDENCE"
^^ but of course any MSM publication would criticize that lede as too long even as it contains most of the relevant facts 🙄🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r9t_xgppcc
OT: Haberman has done it again. Breaking News front page of the NYT's; Trump privately expresses support for 16-week abortion ban. Privately? He leaked it to you so you could publish it, Mags. So, the MAN who has been found guilty of sexual assault is discussing exactly what he's going to do to every woman in America if elected. And we're supposed to have a wide-eyed discussion about its merits? The number of men commenting on the story and thinking it was a good compromise can go fuck themselves with a sharpened golf club. Compromise on your own civil rights, assholes.
Sorry for the rant. It is infuriating to me.