We guess Gaetz-Gate isn’t over in spite of everything??
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz appeared to be in severe scorching water a number of months in the past on account of accusations of drug-fueled events with younger women — and apparently funds beneath his precise identify on Venmo! Seeing as one woman he introduced throughout state traces was solely 17 years outdated, there was even discuss of intercourse trafficking fees. And his pal DID go to jail over all this. You may examine that madness HERE.
However then all of it type of… fizzled. Gaetz adopted his hero Donald Trump‘s lead and denied every little thing, calling it a political witch hunt. The warmth died down, and he obtained married. As a result of he’s a Republican, nobody in his social gathering held him to account. And that was that.
However now he’s not getting the identical degree of wagon-circling. In case you don’t comply with a lot political information, Gaetz led the cost to oust Speaker of the Home 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 susceptible 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 instructed them!
“It is a man the media didn’t give the time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage woman. There’s a purpose why nobody within the convention got here and defended him — as a result of we had all seen the movies he was displaying on the Home ground that every one of us had walked away, of the women he had slept with.”
Yowza. This isn’t really even the primary time we’ve heard he did this. However Mullin mentioned extra about his colleague:
“He bragged about how he would crush E.D. drugs and chase it with power drinks so he may go all night time. That is clearly earlier than he obtained married.”
So elegant…
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 drugs and chase it with power drinks so he may go all night time.” (@acyn) pic.twitter.com/xeq7PtGrLH
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 5, 2023
In a press release to CNN, Gaetz defended himself, saying:
“I don’t suppose Markwayne Mullin and I’ve mentioned 20 phrases to one another on the Home ground. It is a lie from somebody who doesn’t know me and who’s dealing with the loss of life of the political profession of his good friend Kevin. Ideas and prayers.”
Do it’s a must 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 employees Marc Brief mentioned on Wednesday he figured Gaetz got here to Washington “for the teenage interns on Capitol Hill” relatively than to be a “fiscal crusader.” Rattling.
This man has one hell of a rep for Rep. Will it matter ultimately? That is the social gathering of Trump and Santos. The one crime you may actually commit, apparently, is popping by yourself social gathering. Simply ask Madison Cawthorn.
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