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FightFight

(202 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 04:32 PM Nov 15

Republicans wont release the ethics report on Matt Gaetz---Well then here's mine from his dead roommate to his dui

Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2024, 09:53 PM - Edit history (1)

Sheetplorableyan Congressman Matt Gaetz,

Occasionally takes to Twitter to post anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

He took the time to discredit Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was dismembered by a hacksaw before he actually died, by Jared Kushner's buddies https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/10/18/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-is-a-terrible-person

He shared a video, with zero context or background, showing a random person handing cash to people in a crowd. He then recklessly questioned if this was another effort from Jewish billionaire George Soros,

Gaetz's aides once wrote a bill with help from a conspiracy theory subreddit devoted to white nationalism--Wired later discovered that a Gaetz staffer had crowd sourced ideas for the amendment on a subReddit forum which happens to be a cesspool of alt-right activity https://www.wired.com/story/republican-staffer-the-donald-resolution/

Gaetz’s record reveals an arrest for drunk driving --He didn't have his license suspended for a year when he refused the breath test — as Florida law dictates. And he didn't have that refusal used against him in a criminal proceeding. Charges against Gaetz were dismissed after events that included, among other things, the forced resignation of the arresting officer. https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/lawmakers-talk-of-mug-shot-raises-questions-about-dui-arrest/2166023/

Matt Gaetz invited a white supremacist to Trump's State of the Union https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/state-of-the-union-matt-gaetz-charles-johnson

Alleged-- Gaetz’s roommate at Florida State University was reportedly found dead under suspicious circumstances while they were undergraduate students, Law Enforcement investigated the death as a possible homicide but the agency was later politically-pressured to rule it a suicide

Matt Gaetz was involved in a gay relationship with a well-known pastor of an evangelical mega-church in Fort Walton Beach, But Matt Gaetz runs for the U.S. Congress as a traditional “family values” and anti-gay rights conservative http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/18966

Miami Democrats file bar complaint against Matt Gaetz for his classified facility raid https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/miami-democrats-file-bar-complaint-against-matt-gaetz-for-his-classified-facility-raid/

CNN legal analyst slams Matt Gaetz’s threatening tweet to Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/matt-gaetz-tweet-michael-cohen/index.html

Rep. Matt Gaetz suggested a caravan of Honduran refugees was paid by George Soros to disrupt the U.S. election. And he only went further off the rails when challenged.

Republican. Matt Gaetz was literally the only person to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/12/29/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-was-literally-the-only-person-to-vote-against-an-anti-human-trafficking-bill

Matt Gaetz Voted Against Paid Sick Leave in Florida But Takes Paid Leave From Congress https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/matt-gaetz-florida-paid-sick-leave-coronavirus/

In the late 1970s, Matt Gaetz's father co-founded a nonprofit hospice companyVita'sas which they sold in 2004, In 2013, the Justice Department sueVita'sas, alleging that between 2002 and 2013, the company had defrauded Medicare by filing false claims for services never provided or for patients who weren’t terminally ill. The company settled the case in 2017 for more than $75 million, at the time the largest settlement ever recovered from a hospice company. https://homehealthcarenews.com/2017/11/75-million-settlement-reached-in-hospice-false-claims-case/

House Speaker Ray Sansom, a friend of Don Gaetz for whom Matt had worked as a legislative aide during law school. In April 2009, Sansom was indicted on corruption charges, accused of tweaking the state budget to funnel more than $25 million to Northwest Florida State College in Niceville. Of those funds, $6 million was earmarked to build a hangar at the Destin airport for a jet company owned by one of Sansom’s friends and donors, real estate developer Jay Odom. Odom was also a client of Matt Gaetz, who handled Odom’s hangar lease. (In 2013, Odom would be sentenced to six months in prison for illegally funneling $23,000 into former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s failed 2008 presidential campaign. In the past decade, Odom has contributed thousands of dollars to Gaetz’s political campaigns https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-stands-his-ground-in-defense-of-controversial-law/2151199/

Republican Matt Gaetz mocked food stamp recipients (“Yesterday I saw a lady at Publix use her ‘Access’ welfare card. Her back was covered in tattoos. RT if u suppoentitlement reformorm.”) https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/22/florida-republican-doesnt-think-poor-people-should-have-soda

Republican Matt Gaetz questioned the literacy skills of 2 black Democratic colleagues https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article20029155.html

Don Gaetz, routinely wrote articles for the Pensacola News Journal but quit on the grounds that the paper was too mean to his son, Matt Gaetz https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2019/03/02/marlette-deja-vu-gaetz-gaffes-part-ii/3009927002/

3 months before declaring his candidacy for the state House, he sued Valparaiso on behalf Igloososa County and argued publicly that the city’s opposition could sink the F-35 program. In reality, the program couldn’t be reversed without an act of Congress. Gaetz’s lawsuit went nowhere. “It was a big waste of time and money, but it got him in the paper,” https://floridapolitics.com/archives/218599-email-insights-matt-gaetz-boasts-role-keeping-f-35-program-alive-eglin-air-force-base

Matt Gaetz co-sponsored bill to abolish the department of education https://thepulsepensacola.com/2017/02/gaetz-cosponsors-bill-eliminate-department-education/

A group of students from the University of West Florida, joining the school’s faculty, are calling on the university’s board of trustees to not choose Florida state Senator Don Gaetz--Matt Gaetz's father. as the institution’s sixth president. https://thepulsepensacola.com/2016/09/uwf-students-petition-gaetz-next-president/

Where did Matt Gaetz come up with all that money to run for congress? The obvious suspect was his dad. It would have been illegal for Don Gaetz to lend six figures to the campaign, but he appears to have found another way to funnel money to his son’s race.Matt Gaetz sold a house he owned for just under $100,000. Three months later, he sold several vacant lots he’d bought years earlier. All of Gaetz’s real estate was purchased by the same buyer: a company called Treveron, which, it turns out, is owned by his dad. http://wp.studeri.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Don-Gaetz-2013.pdf

When Trump called Haiti a “s--ithole” country in January 2018, Gaetz took to the airwaves to concur that Haiti was “deplorable,” full of “sheet metal and garbage.” https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/01/17/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-says-haiti-is-full-of-sheet-metal-and-garbage

The first bill Rcongressmancogressman Matt Gaetz ever introduced was a one-sentence measure disbanding the Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/congress-wont-terminate-the-epa/516918/

In his first term, Republican Matt Gaetz missed more votes than all but seven freshman House members

Matt Gaetz and his Coalition of the Stupid stormed impeachment proceedings to 'demand transparency' — except that's not what it's really about---The irony is that, according to Politico, “more than 45 House Republicans — nearly a quarter of the House GOP conference — already have full access to the depositions via their membership on one of the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry.” https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/matt-gaetz-scif-trump-impeachment-inquiry-republicans-storm-a9168646.html

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz accused of creating sex game with 'points' for sleeping with staff https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-gaetz-latvala-twitter-20200114-hrbeklwtxnbvfnbwvu57nlxvpy-story.html

Mar 10, 2020 - Rep. Matt Gaetz wore a gas mask on the house floor to mock the coronavirus situation--Apr 17, 2020 Florida now has 23,340 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 668 https://www.theroot.com/matt-gaetz-wore-a-gas-mask-on-house-floor-and-now-he-s-1842241582

Rep. Matt Gaetz hires ex-White House aide fired for white nationalist ties https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/matt-gaetz-aide-white-nationalists-1283314

Matt Gaetz’s antifa-detecting facial recognition story is complete nonsense---The company says the photo showed neo-Nazis and a QAnon figure
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/7/22218601/matt-gaetz-antifa-capitol-hill-riot-xrvision-facial-recognition-washington-times-story-false?ududjdj

Liz Cheney spokesperson tells Matt Gaetz to 'leave his beauty bag at home' as he heads to Wyoming https://news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-spokesperson-tells-matt-165124740.html


Matt Gaetz 38 years old and His "adopted" Son, Nestor--adoptepaperworkpapaerwork, the brother of Gaetz's ex-girlfriend https://www.theroot.com/we-ve-got-to-talk-about-matt-gaetz-and-his-son-nestor-1846536883

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Republicans wont release the ethics report on Matt Gaetz---Well then here's mine from his dead roommate to his dui (Original Post) FightFight Nov 15 OP
TY for Shining the LIGHT. Cha Nov 15 #1
He's a weird guy. Dennis Donovan Nov 15 #2
They all are just f'ing weird. Nice compilation! Evolve Dammit Nov 16 #23
K&R 2naSalit Nov 15 #3
Sounds like a perfect made man for the GOP crime syndicate's AG. Irish_Dem Nov 15 #4
well done.... just unbelievably frightening what a goon he is and what he would do as head of the DOJ LymphocyteLover Nov 15 #5
If there's an R by their name, calimary Nov 15 #6
Or all of the above in the case of orange 2.0. Mountain Mule Nov 15 #9
And a token "concerned" Senator, "aghast" at all of this Zambero Nov 16 #28
It could be DownriverDem Nov 15 #7
Same thing I was thinking. Hope someone does it. And the Epstein stuff on tRUMP. japple Nov 15 #10
Believe me, as a former journalist, the media is digging like crazy. Odds are something will allegorical oracle Nov 16 #18
I'll be shocked if it doesn't get leaked. GoCubsGo Nov 16 #29
thanks . AllaN01Bear Nov 15 #8
More than enough there, but I've always wondered about "Nestor"... Does he still exist or was he taken hlthe2b Nov 15 #11
Thanks blueseas Nov 15 #12
An EXCELLENT review of yet B.See Nov 15 #13
A disgusting, shameless, dangerous spoiled brat is what he is. ReRe Nov 16 #14
I forgot about Nestor peregrinus Nov 16 #15
Now THAT'S an impressive resume! Buns_of_Fire Nov 16 #16
Just mho UpInArms Nov 16 #17
Why are the Democrats so bad a weaponizing information against obvious terrible candidates. Fish700 Nov 16 #19
But the DOJ dropped the case because the woman was "not creditable'. republianmushroom Nov 16 #20
The DOJ sold out atreides1 Nov 16 #27
Believe your opinion is right on. republianmushroom Nov 16 #30
K&R Blue Owl Nov 16 #21
Sounds like he's well qualified WestMichRad Nov 16 #22
Gee, any potential for blackmail there? orangecrush Nov 16 #24
Saw a post last night right here that said there are at least 30 gqp senators that are no to his confirmation PortTack Nov 16 #25
After Reading This OP I've Come To The Conclusion That Tr**p Was.... global1 Nov 16 #26
What about this stunt genxlib Nov 16 #31
Sort of alluded to it in the following link FightFight Nov 16 #32

Dennis Donovan

(27,401 posts)
2. He's a weird guy.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 04:54 PM
Nov 15

Just the Nestor thing alone makes me think he's into some sort of human trafficking.

LymphocyteLover

(6,972 posts)
5. well done.... just unbelievably frightening what a goon he is and what he would do as head of the DOJ
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 05:37 PM
Nov 15

calimary

(84,606 posts)
6. If there's an R by their name,
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 05:39 PM
Nov 15

they’re either crooks, liars, cheats, thieves, rapists, murderers, human traffickers, or President.

allegorical oracle

(3,393 posts)
18. Believe me, as a former journalist, the media is digging like crazy. Odds are something will
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 09:20 AM
Nov 16

accidentally be left in a parking garage trash can or car seat someplace in Virginia some evening.

GoCubsGo

(33,158 posts)
29. I'll be shocked if it doesn't get leaked.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 04:08 PM
Nov 16

And, I won't be surprised if it's at the hands of one of his fellow GOPers. From what I understand nobody likes Gaetz, so I pretty much expect someone from his own party to throw him under the bus--anonymously, of course. Can't expose themselves to blackmail, since the rest of them aren't exactly squeaky clean, either.

hlthe2b

(106,752 posts)
11. More than enough there, but I've always wondered about "Nestor"... Does he still exist or was he taken
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 06:00 PM
Nov 15

on a one-way trip to the Train Station? (yeah, a Yellowstone reference.. )

ReRe

(10,907 posts)
14. A disgusting, shameless, dangerous spoiled brat is what he is.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:51 AM
Nov 16

He's actually a sociopath just like shrump. In normal times, we would be celebrating,

as he has resigned his seat in the House, and he's heading nowhere in his nomination for AG.

Saadly, shrump will just find another slot to stick him in which won't require a confirmation hearing.

UpInArms

(51,903 posts)
17. Just mho
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 08:23 AM
Nov 16

I think that TFG wants this pos to be a combination of j. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy

Fish700

(148 posts)
19. Why are the Democrats so bad a weaponizing information against obvious terrible candidates.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 11:03 AM
Nov 16

We take serious hits over tan suits and mustard. I don't understand it.

atreides1

(16,434 posts)
27. The DOJ sold out
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:54 PM
Nov 16

The DOJ has put away Mafia, Cartel, and other criminals using the testimony of the hit men, drug smugglers, and jailhouse rats, who were involved in the crimes. All of those witnesses were accused by the defense of not being credible and yet the DOJ got convictions!

With Gaetz, I believe the US Attorney in that area of Florida was too friendly with the locals, who were very friendly with Daddy Gaetz!

Just an opinion!

WestMichRad

(1,884 posts)
22. Sounds like he's well qualified
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:07 PM
Nov 16

… to be TSF’s successor, if they can move vance out of the way.

PortTack

(34,830 posts)
25. Saw a post last night right here that said there are at least 30 gqp senators that are no to his confirmation
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:45 PM
Nov 16

He toast regardless.

At least he gone from congress!

global1

(25,959 posts)
26. After Reading This OP I've Come To The Conclusion That Tr**p Was....
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:51 PM
Nov 16

Matty's role model.

If Tr**p can be the president - then Matty can be an AG.

FightFight

(202 posts)
32. Sort of alluded to it in the following link
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 09:43 PM
Nov 16

it was a bit too boring for non politicos to follow so i took it a step further

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