Looks Like House Ethics Committee Has The Goods To Nail Gaetz Now
Florida Panhandle hustler Matt Gaetz is a street-savvy survivor. As soon as he was informed of the new charges the House Ethics Committee was leveling against him, he went on the offensive, discrediting them as “Soviet.” Very Trumpian of him. What the Committee will never do is accuse their colleague of being a polymorphous pervert, which is what he is and are at the root of these troubles. Which is what he has been at least going back to college— but likely way longer. It’s a Freudian term that helps diagnose someone who hasn’t grown out of a childhood libido who hasn’t definitively channelled their sexuality into specific aims and objects, and is capable of focusing itself in any direction and on any object. Wikipedia explains that “the term points to the amorphous and changeable nature of the libido prior to being shaped in the processes of socialization and psycho-sexual development. Sexual pleasure in this sense is not merely genital, but potentially present in all sensual interactions, including touching, smelling, sucking, viewing, exhibiting, rocking, defecating, urinating, hurting, and being hurt. It is this original non-specificity of the libido in early childhood that makes possible the variations of the sexual drive that later manifest as so-called ‘perversions’ in the adult.”
The attention-seeking Gaetz found a good time gal to marry him after he was outed for having a years-long sexual relationship with an underaged, male Cuban refuge, Nestor Galban, who he introduced to people as his “son.”
The latest release from the House Ethics Committee is a lot drier:
Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement:
On April 9, 2021, the Committee announced it had initiated a review into allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct. The Committee deferred its consideration of the matter in response to a request from the Department of Justice (DOJ). In May 2023, the Committee reauthorized its investigation after DOJ withdrew its deferral request.
There has been a significant and unusual amount of public reporting on the Committee’s activities this Congress. Much of that reporting has been inaccurate. The Committee’s investigations are conducted confidentially, but the Committee’s confidentiality rules do not prohibit witnesses from disclosing information about the Committee’s requests or conversations with Committee investigators. The Committee is confident in the integrity of its process.
Representative Gaetz has categorically denied all of the allegations before the Committee. Notwithstanding the difficulty in obtaining relevant information from Representative Gaetz and others, the Committee has spoken with more than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas, and reviewed thousands of pages of documents in this matter. Based on its review to date, the Committee has determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review. During the course of its investigation, the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review.
Accordingly, the Committee is reviewing allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct. The Committee will take no further action at this time on the allegations that he may have shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.
The Committee notes that the mere fact of an investigation into these allegations does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred. No other public comment will be made on this matter except in accordance with Committee rules.
A simple Google News search of just his name showed lots and lots like this, articles allover the national, state and local press:
And this morning, ABC News reported that the investigators have been busy interviewing witnesses— under-aged women who Gaetz paid for sex. “Gaetz,” wrote Will Steakin, “has long denied all of the allegations, including paying for sex, and previously dismissed them by claiming ‘someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.’… [T]he committee has obtained Gaetz's Venmo records after issuing the company a subpoena, sources tell ABC News. During the DOJ investigation into Gaetz, public reporting, including by the Daily Beast, largely focused on Venmo records from Greenberg, who according to his plea agreement used his account to ‘pay for commercial sex acts’ with women he also introduced to others. The committee obtaining Gaetz's records, which ABC News has not seen, could help provide congressional investigators with a roadmap for payments the congressman may have made while he was friends with Greenberg… who offered the Justice Department significant cooperation in its own probe, is cooperating with the House Ethics Committee probe into the Florida congressman.”
Gaetz blames his mortal enemy, Kevin McCarthy, for his woes, the basis of a dysfunctional relationship Politico dubbed The GOP’s never-ending feud— a feud, I should add with only villains. McCarthy would prefer to beat McCarthy in the primary with the candidate he recruited, Aaron Dimmock. But the chances of that happening are about as likely as AOC changing her mind and accepting Gaetz’s suggestion that they go on a date. McCarthy has tried… but his efforts on behalf of Dimmock haven’t gotten anywhere. “Gaetz is the Hunter Biden of the Republican Party,” McCarthy said. “He’s got an opponent who is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, trained at Pensacola, went to the Naval Academy and flew jets to defend us while Gaetz was getting kicked out of high school, buying coke and paying minors for sex.”
Dimmock, who Gaetz defined as a “D.E.I enthusiast, Black Lives Matter supporter,” has taken a similar tack: “Matt Gaetz’s desperation oozes out of every baseless claim he makes as he attempts to distract voters from his disastrous tenure in Congress. The voters of this district are going to have a clear choice in August: a true conservative outsider with a history of service to country or a desperate career politician who will say anything to hold on to power.”